Dr. Noyes, a graduate of Loma Linda University 1959, retired in 2000 after forty years of general practice in Forest Grove, Oregon. He served in U.S. Army 1967-1969, and is a Vietnam veteran. Then in 1971, he and his wife, Emma, participated in a short-term mission at a hospital in Phuket, Thailand. He received a Master's of Public Health degree from Loma Linda University 1979. Dr. Noyes' special interest for thirty-five years has been preventive medicine, and nutrition. He has been active in medical evangelism, and conducting educational seminars for ministers, health educators and health professionals in Eastern Europe and other countries.