Dr. Hawkins was born March 20, 1930 in the home of his maternal grandmother, on North Briscoe Street in Tulia, Texas. Hart Texas, where Dr. Hawkins grew up, was and is a small farming community near Plainview, Texas. There were only 6 in his graduating class in 1947.

 

He attended 2 years of college at West Texas State University to play intramural basketball while taking an intensive course in building trades to get his apprentice carpenter's certificate. Upon completing this 2-year course, at a crossroads in decisions and with the blessing of his parents, he transferred to Baylor University in Waco, Texas for premedical education – completing his degree in 1956. In May 1955, he joined the Christian Medical & Dental Society. Internship and Residency in Urology followed at Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas. Dr. Hawkins practiced Urology in Kerrville, Texas from 1961 to 1993 at Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital.

 

His first overseas mission experience was with CMS through MAP, to Ethiopia in December 1969. There he taught and lectured in Urology at The Christian Doctor's Conference in Addis Ababa and in several outlying hospitals across Ethiopia. He has taken many weeklong medical trips with the Texas River Ministry along the Rio Grande, beginning in 1968 and continuing even now.

 

In 1984 Dr. Hawkins was invited to Ogbomosho Baptist Hospital to teach open prostatectomy without transfusions or irrigations by a former nurse from the hospital in Kerrville, now missionary to Nigeria. A video of this simple technique was finally made in 1990 and has been widely distributed to interested missionaries (up to 50 copies through CMDA and ICMDA contacts). This video is now being converted to DVD format.

 

Since 2003 Dr. Hawkins has lead three Urology Surgery Projects to Chiapas, Mexico, aided by Dr. Roberto Rodriguez, MD, FACS of Monterrey, Mexico. These teams primarily concentrate on TURP's.

 

Email: tchaw@hctc.net

 

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