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Prior to their appointment in India, the Jewetts served in Mobin
Crochu Hospital in Haiti from July 2000 to March of 2001. "Our
experiences have been at both ends of the medical continuum,"
recalls Judy just before beginning her assignment in Haiti, "high-tech
medicine in a large, prestigious teaching hospital, and low-tech
medicine in a small rural hospital with no electricity and very
few amenities…. And now we head to Haiti, our third country
of assignment."
Previous mission work for Paul and Judy also included health
ministry in India and in Malawi. From 1967 to 1974, Paul was head
of the Department of Cardiology in Wanless Chest Hospital in Wanlesswadi,
India, and then in Wanless Hospital, Miraj Medical Centre, in
Miraj, India. During their first assignment to India, Judy served
as a medical records librarian in Wanless Chest Hospital and as
a librarian at the Baisinger Memorial Library in Miraj, India.
Their second assignment to India was from 1986 to 1989, when
Paul served as staff cardiologist and head of department at the
Wanless Hospital, Miraj Medical Centre, and professor of cardiology
at Miraj Medical College, Shivaji University. During their second
assignment in India, Judy served as management systems analyst
at the Miraj Medical Center and was in charge of the computer
department at the Miraj Medical Centre, in Miraj, India.
The Jewetts then served from 1990 to 1996 in Malawi, where Paul
was a medical officer the first year and then the medical officer
in charge for the remaining five years at the Embangweni Hospital
in Embangweni, Malawi. Judy served as the accountant and administrator
at the hospital.
Paul and Judy both grew up in homes and churches that nurtured
their sense of calling to do mission work. They met in college
and married during Paul’s first year in medical school. Paul
and Judy have six living children, each given in infancy to them
in a different way. Maritza and Miguel are from Panama; John Calvin
and Matthew are children of mixed race from the United States;
Kamala and Nalini are from India. A seventh child, Jay Soundsleeper,
a native American boy, died of a brain tumor. None of the children
or grandchildren accompanied the Jewetts in their ministry in
Haiti or India.
From 1974 to 1981, Paul was the head of cardiology at the Kaiser
Permanent Medical Group in Denver, Colorado, and staff cardiologist
at the St. Joseph Hospital, also in Denver. From 1981 to 1986
he was staff cardiologist at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln,
Nebraska, and was also in private practice.
Paul did premedical studies at the University of Nebraska at
Kearney and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He received
his M.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine,
where he was in the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honorary
Society. He interned at Gorgas Hospital, Canal Zone, and took
internal medicine residency training at US Naval Hospital, Oakland,
California, and at the University of Nebraska Medical Center,
in Omaha, Nebraska. Paul had fellowships in cardiology at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center and at the University of
Iowa Hospital.
Judy worked as a library assistant from 1956 to 1960 at the University
of Nebraska College of Medicine Library. She was a homemaker from
1960 to 1969 and then again from 1974-1986. Judy has a bachelor
of science in business administration with a major in accounting
from the University of Colorado. She has completed the course
work for a master’s in health administration from the Health
Sciences Institute of the University of Colorado.
Paul has been a member of the board of directors of the Medical
Benevolence Foundation and of the Presbyterian Border Ministries,
a ministry of the General Assembly Mission Council of the PC(USA).
Their home church while in the United States has been Eastridge
Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, where they have both
been very active. Both Paul and Judy were ordained as ruling elders
at First Presbyterian Church, Littleton, Colorado.
Birthdays:
Paul - February 26
Judy - July 6
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