Stories from a Lifetime in Africa

Published: June 27, 2012, 12:27 p.m.

b'Harold Paul Adolph was born in China to an American medical missionary physician and wife serving
with China Inland Mission. Dr. Adolph received his M.D. in 1958 from the University Of Pennsylvania
College Of Medicine, completed a general surgery residency in the Canal Zone of Panama and then
served one term in the Navy. In 1966 h and his wife Bonnie with their two children moved to Ethiopia as
missionaries with SIM, Int.

He and his family have experienced just about everything you could imagine in their lives of service
in medical missions. Dr. Adolph has authored 5 books with the latest entitled \\u201cToday\\u2019s Decision \\u2013
Tomorrow\\u2019s Destiny\\u201d. After retiring the Adolphs envisioned building a new hospital in Southern
Ethiopia! Today this hospital is part of the Pan-African College of Christian Surgeons, an outstanding
program for the training of Christian African doctors as surgeons for service in mission hospitals.

Though his career, Dr. Adolph has become an amazing teller of the stories of medical missions. This
session will be informal and will be moderated by Dr. Daniel Tolan, Associate Director of CMDA\\u2019s Center
for Medical Missions.

This will be an informal session in which questions may be asked and stories will give the answer.'