Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

This episode was suggested to me by my friend Wyatt.

You know who you are.

Wyatt is exactly as old as this podcast.

He was born on the very same day we released the first episode back in 2013.

He suggested an episode on the missionary doctor Paul Brand.

Here goes.

Paul Brand grew up in India as a missionary kid.

He was born to British parents and his father was a medical doctor.

Years later, he wrote of the experience. He said, as a boy growing up in India, I idolized my missionary father,

who responded to every human need he encountered. Paul Brand remembered one vivid encounter when he was

seven years old. He saw three men approaching his dad's clinic in home. They were wearing the

traditional garb of turbans and draped in blankets as the custom.

But as they got closer, he noticed that their hands and their feet were covered in bandages.

They were suffering from leprosy.

It was Paul's first encounter with lepers.

He was sent back to England to study.

He studied carpentry and engineering. He was on a

track to be a builder. It was as if he was resisting the call to follow in his father's footsteps,

but eventually he switched over to medicine. And then he studied at the University College Hospital in

London. His apprenticeship was rather intense.

It came right alongside of the London Blitz of World War II.

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