Brother to Victoria (White) Ellsworth, Dr. Russ White was born in the Belgian Congo to medical missionary parents. He attended Roberts Wesleyan College, the University of Michigan School of Medicine, and the Harvard University School of Public Health. He completed a general surgical residency at Brown University and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, England. He has served as the Chief of Surgery at Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya since 1997, where he spends the majority of his time. He is a clinical Professor of Surgery at Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He has also been the Program Director of the Tenwek Hospital General Surgery Residency program since 2007. In this capacity, he works with other consultant surgeons at Tenwek Hospital to train ten surgical residents in a fully approved 5-year general surgical residency. He is also the chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee for the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa (COSECSA), responsible for training, examination and certification of surgeons in eleven different countries in the region. In 2018, he has begun directing the first cardiothoracic surgical fellowship training center in the COSECSA region. He received the American College of Surgeons Humanitarian Surgeon of the Year award in 2012, and was awarded the L'Chaim Prize for medical missions in 2017. His passion is for teaching and mentoring young surgeons. He has special interests in cancer of the esophagus and rheumatic heart disease, and has published extensively in these areas.

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Weather permitting, both services will begin in the Memorial Garden.

At the 10 o'clock, the children and youth will begin with the congregation in the garden, process into the church singing All Glory, Laud, and Honor, and then be escorted by teachers to attend Sunday School.