To Africa with Love
James Foulkespracticed medicine in Africa for thirty-eight years. A native of Lima, Ohio, he graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky and attended medical school at Ohio State University. Foulkes served his general internship at Mt. Carmel Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and his surgical residency at Akron General Hospital.In 1959, Foulkes and his family were stationed at Mukinge Hospital in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) under the direction of the South Africa General Mission (later called the Africa Evangelical Fellowship and now merged with SIM). For almost four decades, he provided the people of the region with medical care, friendship, and the good news of Jesus Christ.Foulkes retired and settled in North Carolina in 1997. He was honored the next year by the World Medical Mission and received the prestigious Award for Excellence in Medical Missions, conveyed by Franklin Graham. He has received other awards, including the Alumni Achievement Award from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and induction into the Lima City Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.He and his wife, Martha, who served as a nurse at Mukinge for more than twenty-five years, live in Boone, North Carolina. They have three daughters and eight grandchildren. Jim and Martha Foulkes have used their extensive expertise on short-term mission trips, including trips back to Zambia where their daughter, Gwen, and her husband are raising a second-generation missionary family.