Later, during nursing school, she served another short-term assignment at SIM's Bemb r k Hospital in Benin. It was a hard year for her, and she didn't want to go back. She returned home and enrolled in Bible school, where she began dating a fine Christian man she had known in high school. But Beth knew that wasn't what the Lord wanted. She returned to the hospital in Benin, then served at SIM USA headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, for 18 months, spent some time in Liberia, and finally went on to Guinea where she has served for the past eight years.
Life is primitive.
She has no running water, electricity, indoor plumbing, or bathroom. I don't have a refrigerator, mainly because of the work it takes to maintain it. In the meantime, Beth does all she can to help people and be a witness to the gospel. She battles the measles, meningitis, diarrhea, and malaria that kill children in nearly every family. She grieves over the superstition that makes families try spells and charms before bringing their sick and injured to the clinic.