Hello Friends!
My name is Suzanne Montgomery. I am a Family Physician practicing medicine now for over 35 years. I was born in the Hoosier state and lived north of Indianapolis where I worked until 2021 when my husband, Tim, and I moved to the mountains of East Tennessee. Presently, I’m a part-time provider at a rural community health center over the state line in Madison County, North Carolina.
Even so, mission work remains central to my vocation. Over my career, I’ve traveled to Haiti, Ecuador and Appalachia on numerous short-term service trips. For three years, my outreach was located closer to home in the inner-city of Indianapolis at a faith-based community health center. Here we served everyone without regard to race, culture or means to pay. Many of the Burmese refugees in the area came to us as patients and it was a great joy to become acquainted with these gentle people.
Refugees hold a special place in my heart. This first developed nearly 30 years ago when my family chose to sponsor a student from Liberia. Shadrach Gonqueh came to the US in 1995 for his education to become a doctor and lived with us when not in school. I wrote his story in a memoir entitled, Letters Out of Africa. In this book, I detailed the many setbacks and funny events that occurred on the way to achieving his goal. Shadrach is now a dentist practicing in Indianapolis and remains a good friend to this day.
When not working, I find respite on our mountain farm in Flag Pond, Tennessee where my husband and I live with a menagerie of dogs, cats, and bees (maybe goats soon). We have six grown children between the two of us scattered between Indiana and Virginia. As of this update, we have eight grandchildren and a herd of grand-dogs!
My hobbies include hiking, gardening, and writing anything from devotions to full length novels. Writing for me is a renewal of an old passion from my youth. My intention is to encourage my readers to live life to the fullest, without fear, even when faced with uncertainty.
Be Coeurageous and trust God with the outcome!
If you want to learn more, go to my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/drsuzannemontgomery/
