To India And Beyond Memoirs of a Missionary Surgeon

This book is a lively description of the life of a missionary doctor - an American surgeon who spent his professional life sharing his skills, his friendship and his faith far from home, in India, Nepal and Cameroun. The story begins in Korea, where Archibald Fletcher (Archie) grew up as the son of a Presbyterian missionary doctor. Life at home and away at boarding school was different, but full of activity and fun. From his parents he caught the vision of faith and service, which followed him through his own career. This commitment deepened through the years of college and medical school and surgical residency in the United States, while his parents pursued their mission in Korea. Again, serious times and humorous episodes are shared with sensitivity. In college at Princeton Archie starred on the soccer team, took a leading part in a group of evangelical Christian students, and won Phi Beta Kappa honors. Medical school at Columbia continued the same pattern of academic achievement, growth in the Christian life and some fun times mixed in. The description of the weird and wonderful world of the hospital intern and the surgical resident is embellished with vivid accounts of some individual cases and adventures in research. Service as a medical officer in the U. S. Army in WWII included a moving assignment caring for the victims of the Mauthausen concentration camp, and finally, after release from the Army, a story-book wedding to his childhood sweetheart. Retirement brought a change in location, but little change of pace, as efforts on behalf of the mission in Miraj continued. The sad death of beloved wife, Huldah, brought the end of an era, but once more God had the answer - a wonderfulsecond marriage!Fletcher, Archibald G. is the author of 'To India And Beyond Memoirs of a Missionary Surgeon', published 2005 under ISBN 9781413474169 and ISBN 1413474160.