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The emergency room at the Ashland Health Center. (April 26, 2012)

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Physician Daniel Shuman and his wife and their five children moved to Ashland last year so he could begin working at the Ashland Health Center. He was enticed by the mission opportunities the small hospital offered. He gets eight weeks off a year that he can use to do mission trips abroad. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland is a ranching and farming community of 855 people. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland Mayor Kendal Kay is also the president of Stockgrowers State Bank. Ashland is a ranching and farming community of 855 people. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland is a ranching and farming community of 855 people. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland is a ranching and farming community of 855 people. (April 26, 2012)

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The Ashland Health Center has taken a unique approach of enticing medical staff to rural Kansas by offering eight weeks off to do missions work. (April 26, 2012)

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The Ashland Health Center has taken a unique approach of enticing medical staff to rural Kansas by offering eight weeks off to do missions work. (April 26, 2012)

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The Ashland Health Center has taken a unique approach of enticing medical staff to rural Kansas by offering eight weeks off to do missions work. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland Health Center administrator Benjamin Anderson helped implement the program to give employees eight weeks off per year to do mission work. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland Health Center phlebotomist Anita Johnson and physician assistant Jon Bigler talk in the hallway of the Ashland Health Center. (April 26, 2012)

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The Mollel family eats lunch at the Hardesty House in downtown Ashland. They moved to Ashland from Indiana to work at the Ashland Health Center. Lacey Mollel is a nurse's aide and Enkaiye Mollel is a facilities worker at the hospital. (April 26, 2012)

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The Ashland Health Center, an exercise complex, was recently built with volunteer labor. (April 26, 2012)

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The Ashland Health Center, an exercise complex, was recently built with volunteer labor. (April 26, 2012)

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Enkaiye Mollel holds his 1-year-old daughter, Maiyan. Mollel is a Maasai from Africa. He and his wife met as kids when her family was in Africa working as missionaries. The couple moved from Indiana to work at the Ashland Health Center. (April 26, 2012)

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Enkaiye Mollel holds his 1-year-old daughter, Maiyan. Mollel is a Maasai from Africa. He and his wife met as kids when her family was in Africa working as missionaries. The couple moved from Indiana to work at the Ashland Health Center. (April 26, 2012)

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Ashland Health Center administrator Benjamin Anderson plays with Chiedza, a resident at Eden Children's Village in Doma, Zimbabwe.

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Ashland Health Center employees Benjamin Anderson and Chance Wilkinson with Zimbabwean national John Siamaquali installing screens to keep cobras and malaria-ridden mosquitoes out of missionary housing.

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Benjamin Anderson with Zimbabwean national John Siamaquali as they discussed the design and installation of screens to keep Cobra snakes and malaria-ridden mosquitoes out of missionary housing.

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Hospital employees Chance Wilkinson and Benjamin Anderson, along with Benjamin's wife Kaila Anderson with Zimbabwean farming missionaries Dave and Cynthia Fortescue.

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