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CMDA 2023 Member Awards 2023 Educators of the Year Award Dr. André and Mrs. Evelyn Van Mol
2023 Missionaries of the Year Award Drs. John and Angela Condie
▲ D r. André (right) and Mrs. Evelyn Van Mol with CMDA Past President Lisle Whitman, MD (left), after receiving the 2023 Educators of the Year Award.
▲ C MDA Past President Lisle Whitman, MD (left), presented the 2023 Missionaries of the Year Award to Drs. John and Angela Condie.
André is a board-certified family physician who received training at the University of Southern California, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Charleston Naval Hospital and the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. Evelyn is a pediatric and obstetrical nurse who trained at the Calvin-Hope University nursing program in Michigan. She has experience with healthcare missions in Mexico, the Philippines and Mozambique. They met while they were both serving as U.S. Navy officers in Okinawa, Japan during their last mutual military tour of duty, and they were married in 1995. They have two sons and two daughters, the latter of whom were among their nine foster children. Evelyn chose the ministry of being a mother from her first pregnancy onward. She studied extensively regarding the special needs present in their foster and adopted children. Through his extensive work to protect children from transgender ideology, Dr. Van Mol has become one of the premier voices in healthcare on sexual orientation and gender identity issues. He co-chairs both CMDA’s Sexual & Gender Identity Task Force and the American College of Pediatricians’ Council on Adolescent Sexuality. Dr. Van Mol writes, speaks, addresses media inquiries and advises for CMDA on issues of bioethical and Christian concern, and he has been extensively published in professional and general literature. He works with Alliance Defending Freedom advising on policy matters addressing sexual orientation and gender identity, including serving as amicus curiae/friend of court in federal appellate and U.S. Supreme Court cases. He advises legislators, government agencies, courts and advocacy organizations internationally on sexuality and gender identity, among other issues.
John and Angela met when they were both attending medical school at the Keck University of Southern California School of Medicine in the late 1970s through their involvement with the CMDA student chapter on campus, and they married in 1980. After graduation, John and Angela began their residencies, during which they welcomed two sons. After they completed their residencies in 1985, John joined his father’s surgical group in San Jose, California. Together, John and Angela knew God was calling them to long-term missionary service, so they began taking Bible courses and welcomed another son. In 1989, the Condie family joined The Evangelical Alliance Mission, known as TEAM, and relocated to Bach Christian Hospital in northern Pakistan. After a year of language study and birth of their daughter, they began what became a three-decade adventure with God. They and the hospital team had continuous opportunities to share Christ with patients and relatives through ward messages, prayer, literature, personal testimony and media. They were also privileged to disciple several believers and partner with and mentor young Pakistani physicians who will be the foundation for future ministry. Since 2009, John also served as Area Leader for TEAM Pakistan. Throughout the last two years, he has overseen the transition of mission leadership into the hands of a godly Pakistani Board of Directors who will carry forward the ministries TEAM helped establish over the last 70 years. After 34 years of service, four married children and eight beautiful grandchildren, John and Angela will retire from full-time ministry in June 2023.
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