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Impressions from Guatemala by Norm and Mary Metzler
THE VISION
When we were first dating,
and we felt a common calling to the ministry, we envisioned the possibility of
foreign missions. Mary decided to study to be a nurse as a practical complement
to Norm’s pastoral training in the event we might be called to serve in a
foreign mission setting. As our studies progressed, particularly during our
vicarage/internship experience, we felt called rather into campus ministry, and
determined to pursue graduate studies in theology to better prepare for that
special ministry in higher education. We did end up living abroad with Mary
working as a nurse, although it was in the very first-world setting of Germany
where Norm completed his doctoral studies at the University of Munich.
Little did we imagine that
someday we might actually fulfill our early vision, if only very briefly, of
serving in a third-world setting as nurse and pastor. Yet some 40 years later we
were privileged to engage in precisely such an experience, traveling on a 12 day
medical mission to Guatemala. We were indeed able to utilize our medical and
pastoral training through a brief immersion in the enlightening and sobering
third-world realities of the people of Solola, Guatemala.
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SOCCER CLINIC
Ascension, Portland, OR - A testimony from Kelsea Miller, a Servant at the recent Sporting, Soaring and
Scoring Soccer Camp outreach event!
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