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18-June-1997 
GA97071 
 
           Bell-Mackay Prize Awarded to Medical Missionaries 
 
                        by Midge Mack 
 
SYRACUSE-- Dr. David & Mary Seel, 1997 Bell-Mackay recipients, were 
introduced by a long-time friend, Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick, at the 
annual General Assembly Breakfast of Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR). 
 
    The award was established ten years ago by PFR to honor former 
moderators of northern and southern streams of the denomination,  Dr. John 
Mackay and Dr. L. Nelson Bell. The Seels received recognition of their 37 
years of service as medical missionaries in Korea. 
 
    Dr. Seel told the group of  his ministry in Korea, "a country where 
form often supersedes substance."  His work was centered at the 
Presbyterian Medical Center, locally named "the Jesus hospital," where the 
entire staff is Christian and patient-evangelization is common. Seel's 
specialty was cancer, with primary focus on tumors of the head and neck. 
 
    Mary Seel thanked the church for its continuing support of their work 
and reported that 18 former patients of the hospital are now among the 300 
Christian missionaries in Korea. Since retirement seven years ago, the 
couple now resides at Montreat, N.C. 
 
    Guest speakers at the breakfast event were Dr. Louis & Colleen Evans, 
from Menlo Park (Calif.) Presbyterian Church. 
 
    Another PFR award, a seminary scholarship for a woman working toward 
ordained ministry, from the Lydia Fund, was given to Trudy Dumont, a Fuller 
seminarian currently involved in producing a video for the seminary's 50th 
anniversary. 

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