We’re passionate about
making an impact
Our Mission
Training healers to bring transforming wholeness to the world.
Our Values
Authentic Community
We serve together in an authentic community seeking to spur one another on toward love and good deeds. We love one another unselfishly, looking not only to our own interests, but also to the interests of others.
We choose our personal and organizational plans, thoughts and actions based on our principles rather than for any personal or organizational gain.
Integrity
We will be most effective when local leaders who are experts in their own culture set our organizational direction. Multi-generation sustainability is possible when we develop and empower local leaders.
Indigenization
Who We Are
Our Focus
Established in 2003 as a platform for training East Asian physicians in family medicine, LIGHT aims to transform lives and communities throughout the region. Through training physicians and other allied health workers, we envision multiplying impact in marginalized populations.
Team members training and serving with LIGHT form the backbone of community outreach to vulnerable children and adults living in nursing homes, orphanages, and rural villages as well as within the urban landscape of East Asia.
Holistic Care
Experienced faculty guide trainees in practicing evidence based health care and addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients. Our social work team helps link resources with needs and provides follow up with local partners. LIGHT’s programs addressing the needs of children living in the community centers around the Loving Laughter Day Center, a day program for disabled children. The center aims to increase connectedness and hope while empowering and strengthening families.
On-Site Faculty
Meet Eva Holsinger, MD
I was born in Norway and moved numerous times before my family settled in Oklahoma, USA when I was twelve years old. While attending University of Oklahoma College of Medicine I met my husband, Brian. I completed my pediatric residency in Akron, Ohio in 2002, as well as a fellowship in Global Child Health in 2006 at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital. My emphasis during the fellowship was on the needs of children in foster care and adoption, as well as the special needs of children in disasters and humanitarian emergencies. We arrived in East Asia in 2009 and have five children. I am currently involved in helping serve the holistic medical and psychosocial needs of high risk children in our community who have limited access to medical care, including orphans and children with disabilities. My passion is to raise awareness and increase the quality of life of marginalized children and their families. I enjoy laughing and living in the moment with our friends and family as well as taking photos, baking, and making music.
Meet Brian Holsinger, DO
My birthplace is Dayton, Ohio, USA, where my loving parents still reside nearby. I have been married to my precious wife, Eva for over 25 years and we have five wonderful children. Some of my favorite activities are enjoying time playing games with my children, supporting them in their interests, and enjoying heart-to-heart conversations with Eva over a tasty meal or coffee. In 1995 I graduated from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio. I completed a one year internship at Grandview Hospital and Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, before training at In His IMAGE family medicine residency in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1996-1999. After working in a group family medicine practice in Ohio for 10 years my family and I arrived in East Asia in 2009. My clinical interests include using osteopathic manual medicine treatments—bone/spinal manipulation—to help relieve pain and discomfort. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a diagnostic tool that I am in the process of learning to use so I can enhance my clinical skills and improve patient care in the international clinic and other community outreach settings. I also enjoy teaching family medicine principles and practice in the outpatient setting to medical students and residents who come to study and learn with us at LIGHT. I am grateful for the opportunity serve and I hope to give myself—my faith, family, possessions, medical skills, and education—to bless others.
Meet Kimberly Sorensen MS, OTR/L
I have a M.S. in Occupational Therapy from Husson University in the USA, a B.A. in Linguistics: Speech and Language Science from the University of Southern Maine with a minor in Deaf Studies. I have 14 years of experience working with individuals with special needs, and 4 years of experience teaching English to Chinese children. As an occupational therapist, I have experience working in a school system, hospital, clinic, rehabilitation facility, home health and free-lance.