The Binkle Blog

  The original building of the Mae Sariang Christian Hospital as it looked in 1986 In 1984, the Mae Sariang Christian Hospital still served an important role in providing health care not only in the town of Mae Sariang, but in the entire region. It also served as the unofficial center of all the Baptist mission work in the area with medical staff often involved in the church, hostels, evangelism work, etc. The hospital was started in the early 1960s by Dr. Keith Dahlberg. Dr. Dahlberg had been a medical missionary to Burma working at the Kengtung Christian Hospital. However, a military coup in Burma in 1962 led to the Dahlbergs as well as many other Baptist missionaries being driven out of the country or not allowed re-entry. So, Dr. Dahlberg came to Thailand and started the Mae Sariang Christian Hospital. By 1984 as we arrived to live in Mae Sariang, Dr. Bina Sawyer, another former Burma missionary displaced by the coup headed the hospital. At times, Dr. Bina, would have short...