{"id":962,"date":"2021-04-14T21:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/?p=962"},"modified":"2021-04-21T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:50:13","slug":"respect-the-person-you-treat-that-is-missional-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/respect-the-person-you-treat-that-is-missional-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect the person you treat \u2013 that is missional, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"962\" class=\"elementor elementor-962\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-60ad1876 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"60ad1876\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-705fec6f\" data-id=\"705fec6f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7916fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b7916fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: &quot;Montserrat&quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\">Respect the person you treat \u2013 that is missional, right?<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Montserrat&quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;\"><br>By MK Lim<br><\/span><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d31ea6 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"5d31ea6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ee48849 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"ee48849\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h5>Andrew&#8217;s and Sok Hui&#8217;s guiding principle in medical missions:<\/h5><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-962-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Medical-Story-Snippet.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Medical-Story-Snippet.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Medical-Story-Snippet.mp3\">https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Medical-Story-Snippet.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6fdfc20b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6fdfc20b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Montserrat;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Montserrat; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">From January 2015, for five years, Andrew Chew and Sok Hui Goh served as medical missionaries at the Soddo Christian Hospital in Ethiopia. Andrew was program director of the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS), while Sok was the hospital medical director. In January 2020, they returned to Adelaide where they were later interviewed for the OCF Heritage Project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle Tan, a medical student at Adelaide University, asked them about practising medicine with much more limited resources than what is available in Australia. The Chews spoke of difficult decisions to make, e.g., who gets ventilated, and that there is no single-use surgical equipment in Ethiopia. Rather, everything is \u2018reposable\u2019, reusable-disposable: use till broken, then discard. Things are done differently, for example, maxillofacial surgeries with dental wires rather than plates, with very good results. Surgeons also have to look at what they are trying to achieve. For example, should cataracts operation restore navigation sight or reading vision if a patient is illiterate and the big need is for them to find their own way to the toilet, restoring their dignity, and freeing up young children to go to school.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As medical director of Soddo Christian Hospital, Sok worked with the national staff, and mentored middle management to ensure good quality of care. She had to make sure that the hospital did not run out of essential supplies: blood, essential drugs, oxygen. To this end, she not only put processes in place, but she was also intentionally relational and sought to empower her team of Ethiopian nationals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Montserrat;\">This was the second time the word \u2018relational\u2019 featured prominently in the interview. The first was much earlier, when Sok spoke of her experience in OCF Melbourne in the 1970s. She recalled being mentored by Pastor Allan Webb, and Bruce and Ruth Morton. Sok said of the Mortons, \u2018They were very relational in the way that they pastored us, and then we would go to them for advice.\u2019 The Mortons had been missionaries with the Borneo Evangelical Mission, then OMF. When they returned to Melbourne, they took young Sok under their wing. They would pick her up for church, and she used to bring many OCFers to their home for lunch. It seems as if being relational is core to being Christian.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked if they had anything to say to medical students, Andrew said, \u2018I think the scope of service is not important. It\u2019s who you are and how you treat every individual that is important. I think the place is not important. You can treat people here. You can treat people in Ethiopia, you can treat people in London, but we \u2013 you need to treat them \u2013 as a Christian, respect the person that you treat. That to me is missional, right?\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to Andrew and Sok Hui&#8217;s childhood and journey to Australia\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Childhood-and-Coming-to-Australia.mp3\">here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Listen to their experience in OCF <a href=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Journey-in-OCF.mp3\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen to their medical missions story <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Andrew-and-Sok-Hui_Their-Medical-Mission-Story.mp3\">here<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to listen to the full interview contact us via our Facebook page.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Montserrat;\">If you have any material related to your time in OCF, please scan and upload to our website <\/span><strong style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Montserrat;\">here<\/strong><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Montserrat;\">. 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src=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/andrew-doing-rounds-malnourished-doctor.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew doing his rounds in Niger circa. 1992\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Andrew doing his rounds in Niger circa 1992<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ocfaustralia.org\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sok-and-choldren-with-nurses-and-midwives.-2-philipino-missionaries.jpg\" alt=\"Sok Hui with children, midwives and other missionaries\" \/><figcaption class=\"elementor-image-carousel-caption\">Sok Hui with children, midwives and other missionaries<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" 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