Board Members
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Dr. Dwight E. Slater
Dwight E Slater is the Executive Director and Founding Faciltator (along with is wife Deborah Slater) of CEH. Dwight is also an ER physician/ consultant at Scheurer Hospital in Pigeon, Michigan.
Dwight recieved his BA in Chemistry from Hope College in 1976, his MD from Wayne State School of Medicine in 1980. He accomplished his Family Practice Residency from Overlook Hospital and Columbia University in NJ, 1983. Dwight and Debbie earned their Biblical Certificates from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in IL, in 1985, and then both completed certificartes in French language studies in Albertville, France, and finally his Diploma of Tropical Medicine from Marsailles, France, in 1987. Dwight and Debbie speak French fluently and communicate some in Jula, a trade languge of West Africa.
Dwight and Debbie served for 17 years in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa under CB International at the Baptist Mission Hospital in Ferkessedougou which his parents had helped found in 1961. Dwight served as a FP Doctor and learned the full scope of surgical skills as he practiced along side experienced physicians there at Ferke and then started a training program for African doctors in these same areas. He served as Hospital Director for most of the years from 1992 through 2001 and then trained nationals to lead in most of his positions as the BMH transitioned to African leadership. Both Dwight and Debbie served on numerous mission committees with CB International.
In 2004, Dwight and Debbie together with Dr Ken Hall and Rev. Norm Moran led in the creation of the CEH Board in Michigan and scouted out the location for the placement of CEH in Guinea. Dwight's current role is to keep the vision of CEH before our partner churches and individuals to fuel their prayers, to recruit personnel for CEH and to discover financial resoucres to advance the work of CEH. He generally travels to Guinea twice a year to facilitate the work on the field. Debbie leads in the personnel committee to approve missionary canidates, facilitate their development and language acquision to serve God well as missionaries in Guinea.
Dwight and Debbie attend Highland Park Baptist Church and Evangel Community Church in Michigan which have both been vital church partners with CEH from it's inception. They have two adult married sons Dwight and Laurin Slater and Stephen and Bethany Slater, and two daughters, Dara and Veronica who slill live at home.