Shaping the Future
ECU Alums with a Mission
ECU GRADUATES USING TALENTS TO BRING CHRISTIANITY TO ISLANDS
Three East Central University graduates are using their medical talents to help ministers and teachers introduce Christianity to a 18 The Columns
remote island off the coast of India where no Christian missionaries had ever gone. Dr. Creed Stewart, a dermatologist in Sherman, Texas, Dr. Eric Castillo, a dentist in Ardmore, Okla., and Dr. Wayne Lee, a chiropractor in Ada, have made missionary trips before, but now concentrate their efforts on Ghoramara, a small island in the Sundarbans delta complex in India’s Bay of Bengal.
The island is notable because it is sinking into the bay and is projected to disappear in several years from coastal erosion. Several of the islands in the delta have eroded over the last four decades. Many people have left Ghoramara as their homes or livelihoods have disappeared. Stewart has traveled twice to Ghoramara with a team assembled by his church, Sherman Bible Church. The trips are more
