{"id":1674,"date":"2015-05-01T04:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2016-01-04T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T01:41:00","slug":"changing-course-from-kansas-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2015\/05\/01\/changing-course-from-kansas-to-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Course From Kansas To Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/whitton-dale-original-e1430338089360.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1676 size-full\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/whitton-dale-original-e1430338089360.jpg\" alt=\"whitton-dale-original\" width=\"265\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dale Whittom and his wife Lisa participated in the 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/events\/exploring-medical-missions-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring Medical Missions Conference<\/a> (EMMC) and ended up moving to Brazil. They didn&#8217;t see it coming, either. &#8220;My wife&#8217;s a nurse practitioner and I&#8217;m an EMT. We have served on a number of short-term medical trips to Central America,&#8221; says Dale, &#8220;but never considered any large investment of our careers. That is until we met Oscar Paulo &#8211; the Brazilian\/Angola physician who spoke at the Conference. Oscar prompted us to step up our commitment, and now I&#8217;m convinced that God can use almost anyone of any age as long as they are willing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmed.us\/events\/exploring-medical-missions-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conference<\/a> Dale and Lisa followed with Baptist Medical and Dental Mission International, a sending organization who exhibited at the event. &#8220;BMDMI connected us with a clinic is the Brazilian city of Forteleza, which will be our new home. Right now we&#8217;re deep into learning the national language of Portuguese, and updating some of the skills we learned at the Conference, like how to manage birth complications and care for open wounds.&#8221; Dale concludes, &#8220;We&#8217;ve become some of those Sticks In A Bundle; Unbreakable and doing what God&#8217;s laid on our hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Whittom and his wife Lisa participated in the 2014 Exploring Medical Missions Conference (EMMC) and ended up moving to Brazil. They didn&#8217;t see it coming, either. &#8220;My wife&#8217;s a nurse practitioner and I&#8217;m an EMT. We have served on a number of short-term medical trips to Central America,&#8221; says Dale, &#8220;but never considered any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inmed-action-steps-for-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}