CMDA 2023 Member Awards

2023 Educators of the Year Award

Dr. André and Mrs. Evelyn Van Mol

2023 Missionaries of the Year Award Drs. John and Angela Condie

André is a board-certified family physician who received training at the University of Southern California, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Charleston Naval Hospital and the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. Evelyn is a pediatric and obstetrical nurse who trained at the Calvin-Hope University nursing program in Michigan. She has experience with healthcare missions in Mexico, the Philippines and Mozambique. They met while they were both serving as U.S. Navy officers in Okinawa, Japan during their last mutual military tour of duty, and they were married in 1995. They have two sons and two daughters, the latter of whom were among their nine foster children. Evelyn chose the ministry of being a mother from her first pregnancy onward. She studied extensively regarding the special needs present in their foster and adopted children. Through his extensive work to protect children from transgender ideology, Dr. Van Mol has become one of the premier voices in healthcare on sexual orientation and gender identity issues. He co-chairs both CMDA’s Sexual & Gender Identity Task Force and the American College of Pediatricians’ Council on Adolescent Sexuality. Dr. Van Mol writes, speaks, addresses media inquiries and advises for CMDA on issues of bioethical and Christian concern, and he has been extensively published in professional and general literature. He works with Alliance Defending Freedom advising on policy matters addressing sexual orientation and gender identity, including serving as amicus curiae/friend of court in federal appellate and U.S. Supreme Court cases. He advises legislators, government agencies, courts and advocacy organizations internationally on sexuality and gender identity, among other issues.

John and Angela met when they were both attending medical school at the Keck University of Southern California School of Medicine in the late 1970s through their involvement with the CMDA student chapter on campus, and they married in 1980. After graduation, John and Angela began their residencies, during which they welcomed two sons. After they completed their residencies in 1985, John joined his father’s surgical group in San Jose, California. Together, John and Angela knew God was calling them to long-term missionary service, so they began taking Bible courses and welcomed another son. In 1989, the Condie family joined The Evangelical Alliance Mission, known as TEAM, and relocated to Bach Christian Hospital in northern Pakistan. After a year of language study and birth of their daughter, they began what became a three-decade adventure with God. They and the hospital team had continuous opportunities to share Christ with patients and relatives through ward messages, prayer, literature, personal testimony and media. They were also privileged to disciple several believers and partner with and mentor young Pakistani physicians who will be the foundation for future ministry. Since 2009, John also served as Area Leader for TEAM Pakistan. Throughout the last two years, he has overseen the transition of mission leadership into the hands of a godly Pakistani Board of Directors who will carry forward the ministries TEAM helped establish over the last 70 years. After 34 years of service, four married children and eight beautiful grandchildren, John and Angela will retire from full-time ministry in June 2023.

2023 President’s Heritage Award

Robin Morgenthaler

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The following awards were presented at this year’s National Convention. These articles are excerpted from the actual award citations which can be viewed at www.cmda.org/awards

2023 Servant of Christ Award

Dr. David and Mrs. Jody Stevens

Robin was born in Pennsylvania, to her father, a dentist, and her mother, a volunteer at their church and local hospital. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1979, and she took a job in obstetric nursing in New Hampshire in 1981, where she met Timothy, a medical student at Dartmouth. They were soon married, and Tim’s career in the U.S. Navy took them to new places where they found Christian fellowship and mentoring. In 1988, they moved to Rochester, Minnesota for Tim to begin residency, where God prompted her to start a Bible study. She asked five residents’ wives to join her for a Bible study in her home. They all agreed, and the Side By Side ministry was born. When Tim’s fellowship was complete, more than 40 women were attending Side By Side weekly. Their family continued to grow, as they welcomed two more children. With Tim’s fellowship complete, they moved to Tennessee where they welcomed another child. When the Lord called them back to Minnesota in 2000, Robin was elated to see how Side By Side had grown. That was also the year they added another daughter to their family. In 2001, Robin collaborated with a team of women to promote the ministry across the country. In 2005, they connected with CMDA, opening doors for growth. Through the next 20 years, Robin served as Executive Director of Side By Side, leading the charge to establish chapters in cities through the U.S. and internationally. Today, approximately 1,800 women in medical marriages are meeting through more than 90 active Side By Side chapters. In 2022, Robin retired from her leadership position and is enjoying spending more time with Tim, their five children and their five grandchildren.

David and Jody were childhood friends who reconnected while attending Asbury College, where they began dating and were engaged. David realized God was calling him to be a medical missionary near the end of high school and first visited Tenwek Hospital in Kenya on a college mission trip. He knew God wanted him to serve at Tenwek with World Gospel Mission after his medical training. David and Jody married, and they moved to Louisville, Kentucky where David attended medical school and Jody taught middle school. They welcomed their first two children during residency and began preparing for the mission field when he finished residency in 1980. In 1981, they moved to Tenwek Hospital, where David became the third physician and Jody started a one-room schoolhouse. David worked to develop a community health program that later became the most successful project of its kind in East Africa. In 1984, they welcomed their third child. In 1992, the Stevens family left Kenya so David could become Director of World Medical Mission with Samaritan’s Purse. In 1994, David became Executive Director of the Christian Medical & Dental Society, as CMDA was called then. Dr. Stevens continued to lead CMDA for the next 25 years. It’s not possible to cover all of the initiatives and programs that developed under his leadership at CMDA, but his vision to inspire, educate and equip healthcare professionals to glorify God led the ministry onto hundreds of healthcare campuses around the country, into new countries to provide free healthcare and share the love of Christ, into the halls of Congress to influence the government and much more. Since retiring in 2019, David and Jody have enjoyed spending more time with their family, including their 11 grandchildren.