TITLE: Showing Christ's Compassion Through Dentistry
BRIEF OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION:
1. My motivation and preparation for missions
2. Need for Compassion in Korea in the 1960's
3. Missionary's Concern for Communication
4. Compassion for the Poor
5. Compassion for Country Folk
6. Compassion for the World: Founding of DMC
7.Compassion for North Korea: Billy Graham, Christian Friends of Korea
8.Taking Compassion to Central Asia
9. Let's "throw away" our lives for the Lord Jesus!

Resume of Dick H. Nieusma, Jr., D.D.S.

Dick Nieusma grew up in Holland, Michigan, the last of 6 children. After graduating from Hope College, he married classmate Ruth, who worked his way through University of Michigan Dental College. They adopted their son Paul in Seoul while serving in Tokyo as an army dentist, and daughter Mary while studying Korean at Yonsei University Korean Language Institute.

They served as missionaries in Korea for almost 25 years, with the Presbyterian Board of Missions. At Kwangju Christian Hospital he trained dental residents and dental lab technicians, held many country clinics, and also taught at Chosun and Chunnam dental colleges. He helped found a dental hygiene program at Kwangju Health Junior College, and ran a Sunday School at Kwangju Boys Reformatory. His hobby was Korean language research, and he published a verb wheel and glossary for the U.S. Peace Corps. He also performed the weddings for 12 of his dental resident graduates.

In 1982 he helped found Dental Service International, which has sent many Korean dental workers on short and long-term assignments. After leaving Korea in 1986 he taught dentistry at U.S. dental schools: Oral Roberts, Michigan, Detroit and Nebraska. . He has helped North Korea with a mobile dental bus, equipment and supplies, and has visited North Korea as a board member of Christian Friends of Korea.

In 2008 his autobiography was published in Korean with the title 영혼 까지 웃게 하라“ (Yeong-Hon Kkaji Utke Hara) Make Their Heart Strings Ring.

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