CMDA | Vol. 3 Issue 8 (November 2008)

Vol. 3 Issue 8 (November 2008)

Individual Interviews:

• Dr. Mitch Duinunck - Family Practice Specialty (Second in a Series)

• Ruth Graham - "In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart"

Host: Dave Stevens, MD

Biographies:

Dr. Duininck attended a Christian primary and high school in Minnesota, and then went to Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He majored in Chemistry and minored in Biology/Math-Physics, and played varsity baseball for 3 years. He graduated cum laude from Bethel in 1981 and attended Oral Roberts University School of Medicine from 1981-1985. He then joined the ORU Family Practice Residency, serving as Chief Resident in 1987-88. Subsequently he joined the faculty of the ORU School of Medicine, which became the In His IMAGE Family Practice Residency program. He served for ten years as Associate Residency Director and is currently the Residency Director. Dr. Duininck has done medical missions in many countries, including Russia, Romania, the Czech Republic, India, Kenya, Zaire, Ghana, Afghanistan and Honduras. He has been a partner in Family Medical Care of Tulsa since 1989.

Dr. Duininck and his wife Leah have six children, three boys and three girls. As a family, they served as medical missionaries at Manna Mission Hospital in Ghana, West Africa for two years, 1999-2001.

Ruth Graham seeks to minister God’s merciful grace and restoration to those who are hurting and alone. Ruth reflects on the ordinary trials she’s faced, her divorces, her teenage daughters’ pregnancies, her son’s drug use and her other daughters’ eating disorder and the experience of returning to school at age 40, all part of her faith journey. The third child of Ruth and Billy Graham, Ruth graduated cum laude form Mary Baldwin College, with a BA in religion/communication and in 2004 received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Eastern University.

Working thirteen years as the Acquisitions Editor for HarperCollins/San Francisco and McCracken Press, Ruth published First Steps in the Bible, a children’s Bible storybook, in 1980. Ruth also worked for five years as the Donor Relations Coordinator for Samaritan’s Purse. In addition to writing for Moody Magazine, Decision Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post, Ruth co-authored a book titled I’m Pregnant..Now What?...Heartfelt Advice on Getting Through an Unplanned Pregnancy. In 2004, Zondervan released In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart, and in 2005 her next book was released, Legacy of Love…Things I learned from My Mother.