Jerry Yates, MD

During his second year in college, while struggling with chemistry and calculus, Dr. Yates felt like he had lost his way from his childhood faith.He began to doubt the path he had been led to in medicine and sought a closer relationship with God by visiting a different church every Sunday.He prayed for guidance in his life, but at each place he visited, he felt like an outsider looking in. Frustrated, he gave up on his search. One spring morning, he walked to the lake on campus and sat down on the grass with bible in hand. When he opened his bible, it "Happened" to open to Psalm 23. As he read, a bright light appeared in the sky, and Jesus sat down on the grass beside him. This changed his life and gave him the will to go on. He began a closer walk with our loving God and His Son, Jesus. Dr. Yates went on to graduate and met and married the school nurse and completed medical school. They had two sons during their thirty-one year marriage.After eight years in the army medical corps, he and his family were guided to Seattle, Washington where he practiced medicine for thirty years and brought over five thousand babies into the world. He retired from medicine in 2006 and now lives in Canada with his wife.

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