Dr. James Ingvoldstad, whose father was a career Air Force officer, has lived all over the United States and Japan. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1968. That spring he received a dual calling. On the same day, he opened letters of acceptance to medical and divinity school. He enrolled at the University of Iowa Medical School, did an Internship at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. and then completed an OB-GYN Residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals. He served two years at Malcolm Grow Hospital, Andrews AFB. Since then he has been in private practice in Sioux Falls and Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout his medical career he has donated time and energy to philanthropic causes and church based organizations. In 2001, an invitation to go to Haiti gave him the opportunity and the challenge to merge the call of the two letters into a singular effort. That trip changed the direction of his life and many others. He lives with his wife in Atlanta.