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Interior Mission (SIM), while also applying to work for a hospital in California, because she imagined God instructing her: "What about the lepers in Africa? You have the address of the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM). Why not write ? Do you love your own plans more than you love Me?" The SIM accepted her application a few weeks later, and Wall agreed to begin training despite private reservations about her father's disapproval and the possibility of contracting leprosy.
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Wall acted as the primary doctor for a group of around 40 patients with various medical ailments. Before treating her patients each day, Wall lead morning Bible services as required by SIM protocol. She trained a local teenage boy to help her distribute medicine and interpret for patients who did not
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California State Licensed Vocational Nurses Association, chairing fundraising events and giving tours of her hospital to other nurses. After her nursing career, Wall retired to her hometown of Hillsboro, where she died at
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Wall first engaged with the idea of missionary work after listening to a provocative sermon by Tabor missionary alumnus Jake Eitzen in 1937. After the sermon, she imagined God instructing her: "All these years you have been praying every day, 'Lord, make me the kind of nurse that You want me to be.'
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California University after her graduation from Tabor. Although Wall never married or had children, she claimed to have to loved the
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I have come to see that buying toys or ice cream or dog food is not sin. The sin lies in permitting
Christians to remain victims of a warped sense of values that is impoverishing their own lives and robbing them of a great inheritance ... It is sin to allow earnest young Christians to plan mediocre
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Are we missionaries... partly to blame for this complete oblivion to the worth of a lost soul? Perhaps because we see people so occupied with tangibles, we hesitate to present the real purpose of missions—of our own work—for fear we will offend. People want to be entertained. If we learn how to
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until she gained a strong mastery of the local language. After learning Hausa, Wall taught a basic mathematics and finance class to orphans and adults who requested it. Wall also taught Bible services and reading classes using a Bible translated into Hausa to non-Christian
Nigerians with the
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lives around a materialistic ideal without challenging them to battle. We sin if we do not offer to lead the charge! God has sent us into a stirring conflict, one that should stir response in the blood of every Christian...God holds us responsible for advance!
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speak the form of Hausa she earned in Wushishi. Wall also devoted time to learning about tropical diseases, the British names for medicines, and what medicines can and cannot be mixed. She studied doctors' notes and learned how to make pills and mix ointments.
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for the Monterey Bible Conference in late 1937 with the SIM to begin her training and to learn more about what being a missionary would entail. At the conference, Wall was particularly inspired by talks by medical missionaries
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general physical condition, checking their weight, treating childhood ailments before they became serious—and we would still be giving these lovely little children a chance to go through life without contracting the disease.
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Well, I am showing you now. This is the kind of nurse I want you to be." The next day, Wall read an opinion piece in a leaflet she was given in a science class titled "The Cry of the Leper," which explained the phenomena of
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to begin to do everything 'as Jesus would do'... willing to give up all pleasures, home--or anything-- to please God." As a teenager, Wall dedicated herself to practicing nursing and taking Bible classes at
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church and expressed her dedication to Christianity, but she eventually convinced him to also believe in the religion. Wall's mother supported her missionary work and passion for medicine.
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