Sunday Explorations

Our 9:30 AM Sunday programs are back during the Epiphany season! Please join us in the Board Room for these 45-minute sessions. They’re a great chance to connect with others in a small-group setting. With coffee.

Dr Jennifer Wilson will introduce us to her work at clinics in some of the poorest regions of Ghana, and will speak about how her work and her faith have impacted each other. Dr Wilson is Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Director of International Partnerships at Leyata Hospital, Ghana.

 

More about Dr Wilson:
In 2004, Jennifer Wilson, a member of Uxbridge Baptist Church, a family medical practitioner and emergency room physician, and mother of five, attended a conference in Toronto. The keynote speaker was Stephen Lewis, who was the UN Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. He told story after story about what it was like for people living in Africa in the wake of a generation lost to the ravages of HIV/AIDS. Stephen Lewis’ words awakened in Dr Wilson a question: in light of the first two commandments, love your God and love your neighbour as yourself, how could she show compassion to global neighbours?

In 2007, Dr Jennifer Wilson led her first medical mission to Ghana in partnership with an NGO. There were 10 more missions to come, and eventually, the founding of the Leyaata Hospital, the only hospital in northern Ghana. The eleven missions of the Ghana Health Team from 2007 through 2018 are the subject of her book Grant Us Tomorrow which is a memoir, written in first person, but which is mostly a close-up of the health team, the miracles that flowed through them, and of the resilience and courage of the local heroes, that is, the people who queued for each clinic in droves, some of them walking from neighbouring countries to receive care from Dr. Wilson’s Ghana Health Team.