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Dr. Martha Myers touched the lives of thousands of people as a medical missionary in the country of Yemen. The native of Alabama worked long hours at the Jibla Baptist Hospital throughout the week, and then delivered treatment and medical supplies on weekends.
And even though she was shot and killed in 2002, she’s still impacting Yemenis because of a decision she made years earlier.
At the age of 9, Martha Myers knew what she was going to do with her life. She’d become a Christian that year, and was soon engrossed in her church’s missionary efforts. After high school graduation, she attended medical school and went on short-term missionary trips around the world.
Upon completion of her doctoral training, she moved to the volatile Middle Eastern country of Yemen. Her work there was as exciting as it was demanding. The hospital kept her busy throughout the week, and Myers found even more need on her weekend excursions delivering aid and supplies to those who couldn’t get to her hospital. Her work wasn’t without risk, though. In the late 90s, she and her Toyota Land Cruiser were hijacked by armed men. During her captivity, they threatened to kill her, but later abandoned her without any serious injury.
Episodes like that led Martha to make an important decision: she told her family to allow her to be buried in Yemen if she died there.
Sadly, that’s exactly what happened.
On December 30, 2002, a woman visited the hospital, and was treated by Dr. Myers. The grateful woman went home and told her husband about the love and compassion she’d received from the Christian medic…something no Muslim doctor had ever given her. Fueled by his radical beliefs, and not wanting Christianity to spread in his homeland, the husband, 35-year-old Abed Kamel, smuggled a rifle into the hospital. He then shot and killed Myers and two other Baptist missionaries, and injured a third.
But that wasn’t the end of Dr. Martha Myers’ witness in Yemen.
Today, on the grounds of the hospital she spent more than 20 years serving, a marker stands with her name on it, along with the following inscription: “She loves God.”
Even in death, she testifies to the power and love of Jesus Christ.
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Topics Illustrated Include:
Baptist
Choices
Death
Epitaph
Influence
Kill
Legacy
Missionary
Missions
Sacrificial
Testimony
Violence
Witness
Women
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