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Zambia in his heart

July 18, 2009, By Teresa Sheffield — The Examiner

Independence, MO — Dr. Jim Elias is the doctor without pain.

At least he is to the thousands of Zambians to whom he has given free dental care.

“They called me the doctor without pain because we would numb them before we went to work on them,” Elias said.

So, how did he end up with thousands of Zambians in his dental chair? In a dental chair, of course.

It all began in 1998 when he was chatting with a patient, Charlotte Franklin, as he worked on her teeth for eight hours. You can cover a lot of subjects in eight hours, and somehow it came out that she did missionary trips with International Children’s Missionary Enterprise around the world. Continue reading »