{"id":17158,"date":"2011-09-03T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=17158"},"modified":"2011-09-03T01:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:06:06","slug":"500-plus-benefit-from-medical-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/500-plus-benefit-from-medical-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"500-plus benefit from medical missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa V. David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns112373.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds troop to the Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ 4th Watch during its village-to-village medical mission. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Over 500 individuals were served by the Pentecostal Missionary Church of Christ 4th Watch during its village-to-village medical mission conducted throughout Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Church representative Ronnie Doca said the medical mission is part of the church&#8217;s global mission of providing public service to the community through Dalaw Kalinga (Care Visit) Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical mission is a way to reach out to the community,\u201d Doca told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The church brought its medical missions to Tanapag, Garapan, Gualo Rai, Chalan Kanoa, San Antonio, and Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>Doca said their most recent medical mission, held at the Kagman Community Center on Aug. 13, was a success.<\/p>\n<p>Mission volunteers provided various services such as height and weight measurement, blood sugar and blood pressure check-ups, vision screening, reflexology, haircut, facial massage, and spiritual counseling.<\/p>\n<p>Doca noted that the Kagman event was the last village-to-village medical mission as they will bring the project back to their church in San Jose on Sept. 25 in celebration of the church&#8217;s anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa V. David Reporter \u00a0Over 500 individuals were served by the Pentecostal Missionary Church&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maharlika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}