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In Guatemala a few years ago Dr. Robert Clark and Evangelist J. C. Reed conceived an idea that is about to be born. They were dismayed to see people turning to witch doctors for healing and salvation but receiving neither. The witch doctors grow rich on the superstition that sickness is caused by sin. Why not build a clinic that would combine the work of the evangelist with the skills of the physician? Missionaries could be trained to be paramedics. Serious cases would be referred to the clinic. They not only would be more effective but they should be less subject to the sudden expulsion to which missionaries are subject because they have no practical skills. Also the center could provide field training for missionaries going into similar cultures. —Joe Black, Cahaba Valley Church of Christ, Birmingham, AL