Contents

When knowing interferes with learning
- SIMS program director writes about the true meaning of service

Volunteering with SIMS
- What a volunteer has learned from working with SIMS

Reports from around the world
-Firsthand accounts from students who served with SIMS
Kenya
Madagascar
Mexico
Nepal
Peru
Philippines

Where SIMS volunteers served overseas

Community Kids Connection
- SIMS reaches out locally

SIMS holds Adopt-a-Kid Christmas party

Coming full circle
- An alumni looks back on his first experience with SIMS

How can you get involved with SIMS?

SIMS Outlook Loma Linda University Students for International Mission Service Loma Linda, CA 92350

Editorial staff, SIMS Quarterly Student editor Jennifer Pedersen Victoria Thornton Editorial advisors Juan Carlos Belliard, MPH Stafford Ormsby Layout and design Nancy Yuen, University relations SIMS faculty advisor Richard Hart, MD, DrPH SIMS program director Juan Carlos Belliard, MPH Student coordinators Heidi Guttschuss, Jim Rook, and Martine Polycarpe, School of Public Health students