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Faith and Loss: James Appel
Hours: 1.00

Dr. James Appel has for thirteen years been serving as a physician in African hospitals developed through the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with his wife and children, Dr. Appel has experienced deepened faith as well as heartbreaking loss during these years. With great honesty Dr. Appel shares his wrestling with faith and grief and hope for the future.

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Participants will be able to demonstrate the following:
  1. Identify “symptoms” of loss and grief that Dr. Appel experienced at the death of his twin brother.
  2. Discuss how Dr. Appel wrestled with loss theologically following his son Adam’s death from malaria.
  3. Compare and contrast health care in the U.S. and in the African countries where Dr. Appel has worked.
  4. Describe how Dr. Appel’s perspectives on working with Muslim colleagues changed during his time in Africa.
  5. Recall biblical texts that gave meaning to Dr. Appel as he faced loss.

James Appel, MD

James Appel, MD, was born in Ohio. Son of an Adventist pastor, he received his BA in Theology from Southern Adventist University in Tennessee and then a Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University in California.

After completing his Residency, James moved to the Republic of Chad where he was the only doctor at the Bere Adventist Hospital for seven years.  It was there that he met his wife, Sarah, a volunteer nurse from Denmark.  James is currently the Chad country director for the NGO Adventist Health International which runs over 20 hospitals in Africa and the rest of the developing world.

Disclosures
This author has disclosed that there are neither conflicts of interest nor commercial affiliation with this activity

This course is not accredited.
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