WORKSHOP ABSTRACT:
Session Information
Marriage is hard. ‘Medical marriages’ are even harder. There’s the time suck, the mental drain, the emotional depletion, and the isolation. So how do you dedicate yourself to a life of serving Christ through medicine and still have a marriage that thrives?
Objectives:
- To normalize the struggle of ‘medical marriages’
- To encourage those in ‘medical marriages’ to stay the course
- To equip ‘medical marriages’ to grow their intimacy, endurance, affection, communication, and hopefulness
- To highlight the strange gift that marriage is for our individual journey with Jesus
Bill White, MDiv, DMin
Bill White has an Mdiv and DMin from Fuller Theological Seminary, did missions work with the Assemblies of God in Mexico City, is ordained with the Reformed Church in America, and pastors a small neighborhood church in Long Beach, California. He’s married to his college sweetheart, Katy, and they have two children - Timothy (22) and Caris (20). In his spare time he gardens and plays board games.
Katy White, M.D., M.P.H.
Family medicine physician and the Chief Medical Officer of Los Angeles Christian Medical Center where she oversees a team of 25 medical providers. Their two main sites are on Skid Row, and across from large housing projects in Boyle Heights/East LA; their ten other sites include 4 street teams, and co-located services with homeless shelters, supportive housing, mental health facilities, and churches. Katy's passions at work include seeing patients, being a champion for clinical excellence and whole- person care in underserved communities, and encouraging staff and the next generation of providers to love our patients as our neighbors. Besides connecting with family, to stay sane she runs regularly and reads passionately.