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About CGMH Institute

Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated Institute exists to respond to the acute shortest of healthcare professionals in the USA and around the world. The institute is doing by providing hands on training of future health professionals and leaders on its premises. The number two vision for Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated is the formation of partnerships and affiliations with formal educational institutions to participate in the training of their diverse professionals through is institute headed by a seasoned academic and professional Rev. Dr. Manjerngie Cecelia Ndebe. The following is Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated’s second vision within its four-fold hierarchy vision structure:

To increase the numbers of highly skilled God fearing work force needed for the delivery of high quality holistic optimal healthcare for all clients by engaging in ongoing partnerships with educational institutions for the training of diverse healthcare professionals from all disciplines, students of leadership, and students of Christian Ministry in our facilities.

Rev. Dr. Manjerngie Cecelia Ndebe as founding CEO and board chairman of Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated, takes this vision seriously and has executed educational partnership agreements between CGMH and Duke University in North Carolina, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Perdue University Global in Indiana, Wesleyan Indiana University in Indiana, Former Kaplan University in Chicago, IL, Spring Arbor University, Michigan, Perdue University Global, Indiana, and Ross Medical Education in Michigan. Dr. Ndebe has trained students from all the above institutions at CGMH. Many more partnerships and affiliations are in the works to help students globally.

In keeping with the above organizational vision, the mission of the CGMH Institute is to inform, inspire, and impart students into becoming confident successful professionals, providers, faculty, and leaders of significance serving their communities, their states/countries, and the universe in need of highly skilled professionals and leaders across disciplines.

Dr. Ndebe as an expert mentoring faculty in popular demand,was powerfully influenced to become a clinical and leadership mentor by an outstanding white Family Nurse Practitioner Linda K. Jowett in an upscale family practice clinic in Binghamton, NY who willingly accepted and served as Dr. Ndebe’s preceptor for her last rotation in primary care in 1999-2000. Linda took Dr. Ndebe under her wings and carried Dr. Ndebe to State of New York Nurse Practitioner conferences and at drug representative lunches and dinners. Linda ensured that Dr. Ndebe had a photo up with the co- founder of the nurse practitioner program in the United States known as Professor Dr. Loretta C. Ford who served as keynote speaker of the 2000 Nurses Day in Binghamton. Dr. Ndebe as a young black woman from Liberia was knocked off her feet by Linda Jowett’s generosity and genuine commitment to diversity in the nursing profession! Dr. Ndebe has committed to train nurse practitioner students with the exuberance and down to earth wisdom with which FNP Linda Jowett taught her and made her comfortable in building strong patient-provider relationships with all races and social economic strata that have served Dr. Ndebe well for years as an FNP. Dr. Ndebe has therefore named the nurse practitioner residency in honor of Linda Jowett.

Dr. Ndebe would have not lived had it not been for the dedication of a retired Liberian nurse mid-wife called Mary S. Kamara who talked Dr. Ndebe’s mom from giving birth in the bush because she was advanced in years and Dr. Ndebe was her tenth child. Prior, with no access to hospitals Dr. Ndebe’s late loving mother gave birth to her other nine children in the bush. So Ma Mary as she is affectionately known by all the hundreds of babies she delivered and saved over 40 years, delivered Dr. Ndebe from her mother’s womb in 1964. Ma Mary again saved Dr. Ndebe’s life when she nearly died bleeding from a mandatory female circumcision she was subjected in the bush in 1968. Ma Mary and another caring nurse mid-wife called Ma Jennifer Barthama injected Dr. Ndebe and nearly 300 other bleeding girls with vitamin K thus saving the girls’ lives. Clinical Externships for other professionals in this institute are name after this great Liberian Heroine that Dr. Ndebe has adopted as her mom.

THE CGMH Insititute Has Three Departments Including:

THE LINDA L. JOWETT NURSE PRACTIONER RESIDENCY at CGMH

This NP residency program is organized to meet the demand for NP placement sites to train both doctor of nursing practice and master of nursing, and post certificate nurse practitioner students specializing in family nurse practitioner, pediatric nurse practitioner, and adult-geriatric nurse practitioner tracks.

The residency program is also opened to independent NPs that graduated a long time ago needing to brush up clinical skills as fellows for three months for entry or re-entry into the profession. We follow student university course objectives in their learning process and sign their hours weekly. To enhance learning, NP students are giving their own exam rooms and necessary equipment to give them real life experience of being a provider in your own office. We give them select patients to meet course objectives and patients that give them stimulating experience.

The first day of clinical typically entails completing on- site training on policies and procedures in the facility. Students follow the mentoring faculty for the first week if they are doing their first clinical rotation and few days for students in for subsequent clinical rotations. Students are taught how to take history, do examinations, order labs and diagnostics, formulate diagnoses, develop a plan including pharmacologic, referrals, diagnostics and lab work orders, education as warranted for patients, and thoroughly document in a professional manner understandable by common jurors.

Senior level NP students coming for their last rotation are given independence with only consultation as needed by students or where the mentoring faculty sees fit. Students are thought how to write electronic and paper based prescriptions. Students are taught how to generate ICD10 codes for diagnoses formulated and CPT codes for level of care provided. They then learn how to complete a super-bill for the billing personnel to take over and submit. They are taught legal issues concerning their learning and future practice including the implementation of HIPAA and all other security laws applicable to healthcare, compliance with CM &S regulations and expectations for practitioners. So by the end of rotation, Senior NP students completely prepared to see their own patients with little guidance by future employers.
All of the past 38 students that have been taught by Dr. Ndebe prior and those that graduated from CGMH residency have all given great oral feedbacks about the positive influence on their experience how the process has shaped their professional life toward success. Of 38 NP students mentored so far, 36 have passed their national board certification exams and gotten employed, one just graduated July 2018 and is studying to take her boards and one from 2016 did not follow guidance to first take a review course before taking the certification exam and she failed and has not yet retaken it. Dr. Ndebe has trained all females including three black NP students, 37 white students. The followings are requirements for being accepted into the CGMH Institute and into the Linda Jowett NP Residency.

The Linda L. Jowett Nurse Practitioner Residency Admission Requirements:

  1. An affiliation agreement between the student’s institution and Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated / CGMH Institute 451 West Milham Ave, Portage, 49024
  2. Submission of a copy of insurance with a minimum of a $1000, 000.00/occurrence and $3000, 000.00 aggregate for both building and malpractice coverage.
  3. Submission of Course Syllabi with clinical objectives and total clinical hours.
  4. A faculty liaison to serve between the school and CGMH mentoring faculty for the student learning progressive evaluations. The faculty name, email, and reachable phone number must be provided.
  5. A two step TB skin test is negative and if history of vaccine BCG then a proof of Quantiferon gold test result must be submitted.
  6. Copy of immunization records showing evidence of Hep B series, MMR 1 and 2, and other age appropriate vaccinations.
  7. Submission of criminal background check results from reputable vendor approved by student’s university of college/school.
  8. Submission of a recent urine drug screen results.
  9. Submission of copy of unencumbered state RN license of the student
  10. Submission of unexpired CPR card
  11. Submission of a copy of driver license
  12. Submission of a most recent Passport photo or recent picture of student alone.
  13. Completion of a signed preceptor agreement
  14. Must wear white coats with student’s institutional name batch for patients to identify student and school. Must wear semi-business clothes and shoes no jeans, hoodies, or kakis. No tennis shoes but professional semi-business shoes.
  15. Submission of a type written schedule for entire residency reflecting mid-term and final evaluation dates. If student misses any day, they will make up the next time the mentoring faculty is seeing patients.  Students that are no show twice or coming to clinical very late for three occurrences will be discharged from the program
  16. Once all the above are in, student will be written a letter of acceptance to be signed by Student and the Chancellor. This letter gives the institute permission to use student photo on its website and to solicit funding.
  17. Beginning 2018 August to December 2018, Students will be required to pay CGMH Institute one of the followings honorariums:

RESIDENTS THAT WILL ENROLL AT THE END OF 2018 WILL BE PAYING $10 PER CLINICAL HOUR LISTED IN THEIR COURSE SYLLABI BEGINNING  JANUARY 2019. So A Student who is required to complete 125 clinical hours will pay #1, 250.00 and so on.

  1. The Student by participating in this residency agrees to complete a formal written evaluation of the program and for the main mentoring faculty at the time of exit from facility before final evaluation of student is submitted to their institution.
  2. 19. The candidate will get a certificate of completion signed by the chancellor.

THE MARY S. KAMARA CLINICAL EXTERSHIPS

These externships are organized in response to the lack of clinical placements for nursing students, medical assistant students, and medical coding students.

This program is ideal for community experience nursing for both sophomore and students at all levels of undergraduate nursing because it provides a learning environment for LPN and RN students to provide care for all ages of patients from birth till death. They can either choose to do clinical in the week or weekends because clinic is open every day! The nursing students can interview patients and gather health histories to design nursing diagnoses, plan their care, and follow up with them because many patients do come back on a monthly basis and some every two weeks if they have complex diseases. Student nurses can spend great of time providing health education, giving injections, doing office lab test, review new patient intake documents, medication lists, medical diagnoses. Student nurses can also learn to take orders from providers and complete referral forms, diagnostic forms, help obtain consents from patients, call hospitals and schedule procedures and tests for patients. Nursing students have a great opportunity at office management procedures and participate in staff meetings, shadow practice manager.

This site particularly provides a reach learning environment for medical assistant students and medical billing and coding students for the fact that it is both urgent care and family practice open seven days a week and students get to room patients, schedule appointments, learn how to call hospitals and specialists offices and schedule diagnostic tests and procedures. Here these students will learn laboratory techniques, do EKGs if used, irrigate ears, check blood sugars, and learn how to document into the EMR on real patients. Our flexible hours are ideal for students working part time or full time to still be able to meet their clinical requirements.

The followings are requirements to be admitted to the Mary S. Kamara Clinical Extenships which provide reach hands on learning that has been equipping students to be job ready in their particular field of studies:

  1. An affiliation agreement between the student’s institution and Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated / CGMH Institute 451 West Milham Ave, Portage, 49024
  2. Submission of a copy of insurance with a minimum of a $1000, 000.00/occurrence and $3000, 000.00 aggregate for both building and malpractice coverage.
  3. Submission of Course Syllabi with clinical objectives and total clinical hours.
  4. A faculty liaison to serve between the school and CGMH mentoring faculty for the student learning progressive evaluations. The faculty name, email, and reachable phone number must be provided.
  5. A two step TB skin test is negative and if history of vaccine BCG then a proof of Quantiferon gold test result must be submitted.
  6. Copy of immunization records showing evidence of Hep B series, MMR 1 and 2, and other age appropriate vaccinations.
  7. Submission of criminal background check results from reputable vendor approved by student’s university, college/school.
  8. Submission of a recent urine drug screen results.
  9. Submission of unexpired CPR card
  10. Submission of a copy of driver license
  11. Submission of a most recent beautiful passport photo or recent picture of student alone.
  12. Wear clinical attire approved by their schools with name tags.
  13. Submission of a type written schedule for entire residency reflecting mid-term and final evaluation dates. If student misses any day, they will make up the next time the mentoring faculty is seeing patients.  Students that are no show twice or coming to clinical very late for three occurrences will be discharged from the program.
  14. Once all the above are in, student will be written a letter of acceptance to be signed by Student and the Chancellor. This letter gives the institute permission to use student photo on its website and to solicit funding.
  15. Student agrees to complete an evaluation of the institute is doing and for mentoring faculty.
  16. The candidate will get a certificate of completion signed by the chancellor.

THE MANJERNGIE C. NDEBE INTERDISCIPLINARY LEADERSHIP MENTORING FORUM

This leadership mentoring forum is suited for nurse educator and nurse manager tracks graduate students, PhD students in higher educational leadership, for graduate students majoring in non-profit organizational leadership, graduates students in healthcare administration, global policy administration/ leadership, public health, MBA students with focus on healthcare administration.  This Forum enrolls interns and fellows of leadership typically for four weeks to 3 month for hands on training in leadership based on learner’s discipline and needs. Fellows are those who have some leadership experience and gone back to get graduate degrees for advancement into their particular disciplines. Interns are students of leadership without any prior leadership experience who are enrolled in formal leadership type program. Students can come independently or be sent by their academic institutions. In addition to requirements from their academic institutions, the students would have learned the followings by the completion of rotation.

First day of rotation is learning facility procedures and policies and taking a tour of the site for all students enrolled into the forum.

Student fellows and interns will be with their mentoring faculty to learn how to run a healthcare organization on a daily basis. They will participate in facility meetings, they will audit daily patient scheduling and staff assignments to evaluate the flow of work and make note of areas of success and those needing improvement. Students will help with doing financial and other audits, attend board meetings, and learn how to write policies and procedures. Students will learn how to write grants and annual budgets. Students in this forum will learn how to write business plans and how to write by-laws for non-profit and for-profit organizations. The students in addition to meeting requirements for their educational institutions will write development project proposal for the site on how to improve areas they identify as weak in the organization.

Students in the nurse educator role will learn how to teach Medical assistant externs, RN and LPN students and evaluate their performance. They will learn the steps of becoming a faculty versus teacher They will participate in the development of curriculum for the site clinical externship learning enhancement activities.  They will be taught how to search literature and write and write a finishing project on how to start a health education institution.

Christian Ministry students will learn how to conduct Bible studies in the clinic, lead prayers on Saturdays, and help type Sunday Service agenda. Pray in rooms with patient and avoid counseling patients. These students will learn how to design and deliver sermons and participate in serving Holy Communions. The successful students will learn how to write administrative policies/procedures or field manuals to guide leaders of churches or independent Christian organization in keeping with local and national laws governing their particular areas. The will learn how to be a missionary at home versus abroad and how to raise support for each role.

The followings are requirements for enrollment into the Ndebe Leadership Mentoring Forum:

  1. An affiliation agreement between the student’s institution and Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated / CGMH Institute, 451 West Milham Ave, Portage, 49024

If coming in as an independent post-graduate fellow not affiliated with any academic institution, You will complete an independent mentee agreement provided by the institute.

  1. Submission of a copy of insurance with a minimum of a $1000,000.00/occurrence and $3000, 000.00 aggregate for both building and malpractice coverage.
  2. Pay a non-refundable fee of $250.00 for enrollment and no other fees associate for the entire time.
  3. Submission of Course Syllabi with learning objectives and total leadership hours to be completed.
  4. A faculty liaison to serve between the school and CGMH mentoring faculty for the student extern or fellow’s learning progressive evaluations. The faculty name, email, and reachable phone number must be provided. If independent fellow, then this instate will execute learning objectives to be co-signed by the candidate for fellowship.
  5. A two step TB skin test is negative and if history of vaccine BCG then a proof of Quantiferon gold test result must be submitted.
  6. Copy of immunization records showing evidence of Hep B series, MMR 1 and 2, and other age appropriate vaccinations.
  7. Submission of criminal background check results from reputable vendor approved by student’s university, college/school.
  8. Submission of a recent urine drug screen results.
  9. Submission of unexpired CPR card only for nurse educator and nurse manager externs and fellows.
  10. Submission of a copy of driver license
  11. Submission of a most recent beautiful passport photo or recent picture of student alone.
  12. Semi-Business attire expected and no jeans, hoodies, leggings in place of real pants and semi-business shoes. Nurse Educator fellows and externs may wear white coats..
  13. Submission of a type written schedule for entire length of forum desired by the students reflecting mid-term and final evaluation dates. Fellows or externs that miss a scheduled day,  will make up the next time the mentoring faculty is working.  Being absent twice or coming very late for three occurrences will be discharged from the program.
  14. Once all the above are in, the candidate will be written a letter of acceptance to be signed by Student and the Chancellor. This letter gives the institute permission to use student photo on its website and to solicit funding.
  15. Student agrees to complete a written evaluation on how the institute is doing and for main mentoring faculty.
  16. The candidate will get a certificate of completion signed by the chancellor.

MEET THE MENTORING FACULTY OF THE CGMH INSTITUTE:

CHANCELLOR AND SENIOR MENTORING FACULTY

REV. ELDER DR. MANJERNGIE CECELIA NDEBE, APRN, FNP-C, PHD
CHANCELLOR AND SENIOR MENTORING FACULTY

MUSU-SONNIE-WILLIAMS

MRS. MUSU SONNIE WILLIAMS, MSN, APRN, A-GNP-C
INSTITUTE COORDINATOR AND NURSE PRACTITIONER MENTORING FACULTY.

DR. SABALA RETIRED AS PEDIATRICIAN FROM CHRISTIAN GLOBAL MEDICAL HEALTHCARE INCORPORATED DECEMBER 2017 TO CARE FOR HER GRANDCHILDREN. Dr. Sabala obtained her MD from Universidad Autonoma Santo Domingo in the Dominican Repbulic in 1976. She completed internship and residency in pediatrics at the University Hospital, Ramon Ruiz Amau in Bayamon City, Puerto Rico 1979 and 1980. Dr. Sabala migrated with her late husband and family to the United States where she has served mainly in the Kalamazoo County communities. Dr. Sabala is faithful in the Spanish Seventh Day Advantage Church in Kalamazoo.

Musu is happily married to Mr. Saibo Williams and together they have two sons and live in Caledonia, Michigan and are faithful members of their church. In 1998, Musu got a Diploma from Bronson Methodist Hospital School of Nursing. Then she went on to get her Bachelor of Nursing from Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan in 2007 and has worked as rehabilitation nurse for over ten years and went back to school earning her Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio August 2018. She did a portion of her nurse practitioner residency here at Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated. With 20 years of experience as nurse in many roles, Musu brings a wealth of expertise to her new role as nurse practitioner.

Rev. Dr. Ndebe has a BS in Nursing 1997 and MS in Family Nursing 2000 from State University of New York at Binghamton. She obtained a PHD in Higher Education Leadership 2010 with 4.0 GPA from Western Michigan University. Rev. Dr. Ndebe is a member of the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Rev. Dr. Ndebe also has a BS with honors in Biology from Cuttington University, Liberia and Diploma in Biblical Studies from Foyah Bible Training Institute. Dr. Ndebe is an ordained minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She is single and has 11 adopted children, 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild on the way as of 2018.

Rev. Dr. Ndebe has had hospital privileges at Bronson Hospital Battle Creek 2012-2014, South Haven Hospital Van Buren County 2005-2009, Watervleit Hospital in Watervliet, Berrien County, 2010, Lakeland Hospital St. Joe, Berrien County 2014-2016, and Sturgis Hospital in St. Joe County 2014-2015. From 2000, Rev. Dr. Ndebe has practiced Family Nursing in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin for nearly 20 years in both medical and psychiatric hospitals, a city jail, long term care clinics, and outpatient clinics including school-based clinics, family practice clinics, health centers, urgent care clinics, emergency rooms, free clinics, etc thus giving her unparallel vast experience and expertise in the medical and psychiatric care of all types of patients. She has conducted several mission medical clinics in her home country Liberia. Rev. Dr. Ndebe has had several faculty positions in the USA and been inducted into several honor societies and gotten a few awards.

Dr. Saith got her medical degree 1981 from the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. She completed internship at Port Of Spain General Hospital 1982 and residency at Harlem Hospital Center, NY, NY in 1987. Dr. Saith is board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Saith serves on Oakland University Parent Advisory Board and is also Executive Board of the Burmese American Medical Association-North America (BAMA-NA). Dr. Saith provides volunteer medical directorship at Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated since October 2016 to present time on a humanitarian basis to the people of Michigan. She is also volunteering services and giving financial and medical supply donations in Jamaica helping Womens Health Network improve lives. Dr. Saith serves as Global Health Ambassador for this program in Jamaica and attended launch in London, England June 2018. Dr. Saith currently works as a Hospitalist at various hospitals in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. Prior, she served in several outpatient primary care clinics and has over 35 years of experience working in medicine. Dr. Saith has happily been married for many years to a veteran cardiologist and together, they have five children. She is a Roman Catholic by denomination.

Dr. Allen, Jr. served as Founding Medical Director from January 2014 till October 2016. In1960 Dr. Allen, Jr. got a Doctor of Osteopathy Medicine from Midwestern University of Osteopathic Medicine, Chicago, IL. From 7/1960-7/1961 Internship at Grand Rapids Osteopathic Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI, 8/1/1961-7/31/63 Residency in General Surgery at Riverside Osteopathic Hospital in Trenton, MI, 8/1/1963-7/31/1964 Residency in Surgery at Riverview Osteopathic Hospital, Norristown, PA. He was a member of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons until retirement. He is a current member of AOA.

From 6/1986-9/1996 he was a member of the United States Army Reserve and attained the rank of Full Colonel (06), Commander of the 401st Clearing Company in Kalamazoo, MI for 4 years responsible for the training and readiness of 150 personnel. He was an airplane pilot and held commercial and instrument rating in his Bellanca Super Viking. At CGMH He continued working as a provider until retiring June 22, 2017.

Prior to CGMH, Dr. Allen, Jr. for over 50 years served as family practice physician in Benton Harbor, MI saving the lives of underserved populations and later on as traveling locum tenens physician in many places in Michigan and in other states.

He served as missionary Methodist physician in South Sudan for six months in the 1970s. Dr. Allen is married to his second wife Joyce and they live in Stevensville, Michigan. He has four children from his prior marriage and has many grandchildren. Retired from the board May 2019.

PROPHET EVANGELIST JOSEPH BILLY BIMBA AND MOTHER ELISABETH T. BIMBA OF BILLY BIMBA GLOBAL MINISTRIES, INC, headquartered in Tulsa, OK, are the Senior Global Spiritual Advisors to APAN and Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated.

Evangelist Joseph Billy Bimba is a worldwide evangelist and prophet miraculously healed from stage 4 lymphoma and he has and continues to preach the gospel of salvation on land and sea in nations around the world including Sweden, United States of America, Mexico, other European nations, on cruise ships, and in many African nations. He has returned home to Liberia preaching the gospel all over through his Liberia for Jesus Evangelistic Association. He is married with three grown daughters and one son. Along with his lovely wife, they have one natural grandson and countless spiritual children. Thousands have given their lives to Jesus through their ministries and physical and spiritual signs and wonders continue to follow the word of God when they preach it to the nations and peoples.

Mother Elisabeth T. Bimba is a registered nurse both licensed both in USA and Liberia but is now serving as full time minister alongside her husband and minimally works as RN for Christian Global when she travels for short time to Michigan.

Mr. Bolay is a senior biology major at the University of Liberia desiring to proceed to medical school in Liberia. He is active in his church in Liberia. He is single. Mr. Bolay is a committed Christian that fasts and prays a lot.

Mr. Williams lives in Liberia where he studied and works in construction while desiring to pursue a degree in political science. He has one daughter and is single.

Reverend Collins resides in Detroit, Michigan with her husband Benjamin Collins and has grown children and grandchildren. Rev. Collins has served as Assistant Pastor under Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Charles Borgue at Second Grace United Methodist Church in Detroit. She is now serving in a Baptist church and conducts a prayer line ministry she started over seven years ago with men and women from various states and nations.

He has a master’s degree and is a computer programmer at Grand Valley State University. He is married to his wife Musu Sonnie Williams and has two sons. He and his family live in Caledonia, MI.

He got his MD 1972 from University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington and did residency both in surgery and pediatrics. He now works for Primary Health Network since 2009 in both family practice and in emergency room and does hospital rounds for them. He also works since 2001 at the emergency room and at United Community Hospital, Grove City, PA. Dr. Cole is licensed also in Michigan providing voluntary medical service coverage and heading department of pediatrics at Christian Global Medical Healthcare Incorporated. In Liberia, he served as County Medical Officer 1983 to 1990 until the Liberian civil war forced him out. Prior he served as Pediatrician at Phebe Hospital Bong County Liberia 1981-1983. Dr. Cole is married to an eye specialist Dr. Yao B. Cole and they reside in New Castle, PA. They have grown children and grandchildren.

Dr. CJ Gregor, DDS, is a retired dentist who was born and raised in Portage Michigan. After living all around the United States and managing his private practice in Davis, CA for 17 years, he has returned to Portage to live near his many siblings.

Dr. Gregor received his BA from Western Michigan University before graduating with a Doctor of Dental Surgery from Northwestern University in Chicago Illinois. After graduation from dental school, Dr. Gregor was commissioned into the US Air Force and completed a residency in General Practice Dentistry. This training provided advanced training in each specialty area of clinical dentistry. Serving in the US Air Force Dental for 7 years, Dr. Gregor attained the rank of Major before establishing a private practice in Davis California that lasted for 17 years.

Dr. Gregor is married to Wendy Gregor, a registered dietitian and diabetes educator. They will celebrate their 30th anniversary this September 2018! They have one daughter, Hailey Gregor, who is 26 years old and attending physical therapy school at Idaho State University.

Called to work in medical missions, Dr. Gregor travelled with “Faces of Hope” to Antigua Guatemala for several years to treat children and adults born with cleft lip and palate. Dr. Gregor was joined by his daughter Hailey on several of these trips where she worked with the families of the patients.

Dr. CJ and Wendy Gregor came to Christ in 2012 and have been active in their local church, Pathfinder United Methodist Church, since returning to Portage in 2016.

Rev. Dr. Ndebe is an ordained minister and Founding Pastor of APAN Prayer Ministries Church, INC and President of the APAN Ministerial Network Global Presbytery.  She has adopted 11 children and now has 21 Grandchildren and first great grandchild is on the way as of 2018.

Rev. Dr. Ndebe has a BS in Nursing 1997 and MS in Family Nursing 2000 from State University of New York at Binghamton. She obtained a PHD in Higher Education Leadership 2010 with 4.0 GPA from Western Michigan University. Rev. Dr. Ndebe is a member of the Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Rev. Dr. Ndebe has a BS with honors in Biology from Cuttington University, Liberia and Diploma in Biblical Studies from Foyah Bible Training Institute.

Rev. Dr. Ndebe has had hospital privileges at Bronson Hospital Battle Creek 2012-2014, South Haven Hospital Van Buren County 2005-2009, Watervliet Hospital in Watervliet, Berrien County,  2010, Lakeland Hospital St. Joe, Berrien County 2014-2016, and Sturgis Hospital in St. Joe County 2014-2015. Rev. Dr. Ndebe has since 2000, practiced Family Nursing in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin for nearly 20 years in both medical and psychiatric hospitals, a city jail, long term care clinics, and outpatient clinics school based clinics, family practice clinics, health centers, urgent care clinics, emergency room, free clinic, etc thus giving her unparalleled vast experience and expertise in the care of all types of patients. She has done several medical mission clinics in her home country Liberia where she was a high school biology and chemistry teacher 1990-1993 at Foyah Mission High School during the heat of the civil war.

In the United States of America, Rev. Dr. Ndebe has had faculty positions at Syracuse University 2000-2002, West Michigan University 2005, 2009 and research associate 2004-2007, Grand Valley State University Kirk Hoff College of Nursing 2010 and Chair of Nurse Graduate Nursing Programs, Herzing University Online, Wisconsin. Currently is Precepting Nurse Practitioner Students from Duke University, Michigan State University, University of Cincinnati, Kaplan University, Arbor University, Indiana Weselyan University among others at Christian Global. Rev. Dr. Ndebe has been inducted into the following honor society and received awards listed below.

  • Member by invitation: KAPPA DELTA PI International Honor Society in Education and inducted April 4, 2009 at Western Michigan University through Beta Iota Chapter.
  • Life Time Member by Invitation: THE HONOR SOCIETY OF PHA KAPPA PHI of Baton Rouge, LA and inducted April 16, 2008 through the Western Michigan University Chapter. This is the highest interdisciplinary honor society in the USA.
  • Permanent Member by invitation: The National Scholars Honor Society of Elgin, Illinois 2007 to present and inducted June 15, 2007.
  • Lifetime Member of TRI BETA Biological Honor Society of U. S. A. and inducted May 1994 at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
  • Jose Reichel Research Award for a master thesis research: May 20, 2000 at Decker School of Nursing, SUNY at Binghamton: Excellence in design and conduct of the master thesis research.
  • Zeta Iota Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing: Master Thesis Award May 24, 2000 at Decker School of Nursing, SUNY at Binghamton.
  • Joel Robinson Memorial Leadership Award 1996/97-SUNY at Binghamton for leadership in establishing A Hand to Liberians Projects that raised thousands and led a team to serve 600, 000 Liberian refugees in Guinea in 1996.