Pari

Pari is a midwife. Her ministry is among her people in Myanmar. She has a great love for the women in her place and so, while her husband was studying theology at the Nazarene Seminary just down the hill from Shiphrah, Pari determined that she would learn to be a midwife. Throughout the three years of her time with us, Pari showed the tremendous compassion, courage, and skill that it takes to be a midwife. When the midwives called, no matter what time of day or night, Pari would come running up the hill, beaming eagerly as she ran into the birthing home to help attend a birth. Everyone she attended fell in love with her. We all did. The whole world should love this woman.

Now she runs through the sun, the rain and the night in her place to attend the births of the women she cares for so lovingly and skillfully.

Recently, Pari was among us again. She was a special speaker at a Women's Conference at the Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. What a joy! What a surprise! We had been certain we would never see her again when she and her family returned to Myanmar.

She has now returned to Myanmar once again, kitted out with upgraded suturing skills, new books, a new stethoscope, and other tools of her trade that are difficult to get where she lives and works.

God Bless you, Pari.