Warrior Medical Associates

09/04/2025

Unbelievable. In Britain, you can be arrested for silently praying for unborn babies and those hurt by abortions even if you are across the street from the abortion clinic and it’s not open. How did I miss this?

08/24/2025

A patient sent me this…

08/19/2025

The newest Harper is here! Virginia Eloise Bush!

08/18/2025

This is my father-in-law, Pastor Clinton Mason Wood and my mother-in-law, Dorothy (Pullen) Wood when my wife, Lynn and I got married way back in 1989. The second photo is of their own wedding.

My wife is a PK (Preacher’s Kid) and I am a MK (Missionary Kid). She was a “surprise baby” when her parents thought they were finished having kids, seven years after the next youngest child. So they are older than my parents.

What a beautiful blend our two families made!

Sadly, we lost Clint not long ago and it looks like Dot has just a few days left till she will be following him to Glory. Even though both of them have lived long and Kingdom-fruitful lives, with Clint having been a faithful pastor at several churches throughout the years and Dot having been a strong supporter and minister in her own right to her family and to God’s familily, its hard to watch our formerly vibrant older family members pass from this life to the next.

Alas, time marches on and swallows even the greatest of Christian warriors like my wife’s parents and my own.

Their lives are a reminder to all of us kids on both sides of the family that we are the next in line to take that celestial trip.

My life has been spent searving folks - trying to be like the incredible examples my parents and in-laws have been for me. As a child and teen, I watched my father and mother do work for the Kingdom of God in Indonesia and here in America.

Dad’s now blind, but still teaches a full Sunday School Class every Sunday morning. Mom is dealing with an unusual disease of the brain called corticobasilar syndrome. Her mind is still sharp though. She reads the lesson to him diring the week and he then teaches us in Sunday school, with her being sure to correct him when he makes a rare mistake!

When I think about all that these precious folks have done for the lord, it makes me feel like a failure in comparison.

Am I ready to meet the Lord and account for my brief time here on His beautiful Earth that He created? Did I spend my time wisely? Sometimes, I wonder! Tomorrow could be my last day on earth and I just spent 30 minutes on FaceBook! : )

How about you? Are you ready for your own trip one day? What will you say to the One who laid down His life for you?

The truth is that none of us are ready on our own. We can never have done enough to pass the Judgement we all face before God on that day. We’re all sinners and deserve death and eternal separation from our Holy Creator. It is only Christ in us that can possibly shine through our sin.

Romans 3:23:
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".
Romans 6:23:
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord". This verse highlights the consequence of sin (spiritual and physical death with eternal separation from God).
John 3:16:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life".
Romans 5:8:
"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us".
1 John 4:10:
"In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
John 14:6:
"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Acts 4:12:
"And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Romans 10:9-10:
"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved."
Acts 16:31:
"And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
Ephesians 2:8-9:
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
Our showing others our salvation through baptism:
Acts 2:38:
"And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 8:11-14
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you. So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh--for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of

08/05/2025

Growing up as a missionary kid in Indonesia was a real treat for Dr. Chris Harper. A lot of wonderful family memories and friendships were made over there. When the Harpers were missionaries, they served in Kediri, Indonesia, about 2 hours southeast of Surabaya in east Java.
Interesting facts about Indonesia:
The island of Java in Indonesia has more people living on it than there are people in all of Russia.
Indonesia consists of 17,508 islands, many of them uninhabited.
Indonesia is wider than the USA.
Indonesia is right on the infamous “Ring of Fire” which results is some pretty stunning landscapes such as the Valey of the volcanos. In this one valley are 5 volcanos! (See picture)
The volcano nearest where we lived, Mount Kelud, has a stunning set of waterfalls. The picture of these waterfalls with the volcano in the background is so amazing that it almost looks like someone faked the photo! (See picture)
The correct way to pronounce orangutan is (ore ahng oo tahn) with the ah sounding just like you’d pronounce “ah.” People tend to pronounce the As in the word incorrectly with a long A sound.

07/21/2025

Dr. Oliver Harper, Port St Joe High School

07/14/2025

We had a double rainbow over Warrior yesterday

07/13/2025

There have now been more measles cases in 2025 than in any other year since the contagious virus was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, according to ne...

07/02/2025

Great News! We’ve finally found a physician willing to come and do primary healthcare at Warrior Medical Associates with us! Dr. Chris Harper met Dr. Manis Monyet today at our office and they got along really well. Dr. Monyet is very nice to everyone he meets. Our staff thinks he’ll make a great addition to our team. I’m sure patients will appreciate his loving approach to healthcare and that he’s a very attentive listener. He’s not at all talkative - which should hopefully speed up office visits.

07/01/2025

Dr. Chris’ Words:
Used with permission…

I was challenging a weight loss program patient to lose 3-5 lb over the next month. She’d not lost any the previous month and was chastizing herself as we lamented how hard it is to lose weight as we get older.
“I need to lose some more weight too,” I said in solidarity. “Let’s both see if we can get off the weight by next visit.”
“Dr. Harper, do you want to know what I can’t resist?… What my favorite thing to eat is?” she asked.
“What’s that?” I inquired.
“More,” she said with a straight face.

06/23/2025

Here’s my parents, Oliver and Virginia Harper - leaving their families, friends and America behind for 10 years of missionary service in Indonesia (‘72-‘82). We left the States when I was 5 and my sister, Jennifer, was 4. Our little brother, Matthew, was born while we were in language school in Bandung not long after we arrived. Mom and Dad take the Great Commission as their life verses. Dad wasn’t just a skilled missionary doctor, but helped train nurses and medical students. He also was a church planter and an evangelist. There are now four churches near Kediri, Indonesia, that count him as their church planter. Mom was right in the middle of all of that, supporting and encouraging him. She led women’s Bible studies and homeschooled us kids. There are countless souls who my parents introduced to the Lord Jesus and or helped disciple. My whole life has been spent trying to emulate my father’s and mother’s examples of how to live out the Great Commission. Had it not been for my kidney failure when I was 15 years of age, my parents very likely would have been serving there until retirement. However, they resigned from the Southern Baptist Mission Board to take care of me - my mom giving me a kidney in 1984. I carried around a lot of guilt about that as a teen, but it turns out that my parents are missionaries wherever the Lord puts them! Although my aging dad is blind and my mom has a Parkinson’s-like illness called corticobasilar syndrome that is slowly sapping her ability to function, they still teach a Bible study class in our local church! Mom reads the passages and any commentary necessary to Dad during the week and he teaches the class. He had some chest pains a few weeks ago and ended up 2 more stents (he’s had 6 total). The cardiologist let him out of the hospital on a Saturday evening and wouldn’t you know it? He was teaching the lesson Subday morning like nothing had happened! He’s ‘86 now and treats every day like he’s got to minister to somebody. It’s really hard to watch these mighty warriors for the Kingdom of Heaven getting old. Our time on this earth together seems way too short! I’m so blessed and grateful to still be a part of their lives and to serve our community of Warrior, AL as a medical doctor - in my father’s footsteps! Chris Harper, MD.

05/11/2025