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SIOUX CENTER – Raquel Bautista was invigorated with a passion for making health care accessible to all people during a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa. She now is excited to help make that happen as a new dental assistant and interpreter at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. Raquel Bautista has assumed the role of dental assistant and interpreter at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. She brings a passion for reaching out to underserved people. “My interest in Promise was its commitment to serving community members who find it difficult to access health care that is affordable and that provides excellent care,” Bautista said. “There’s a tremendous amount of inclusion within Promise in which individuals, as well as entire families, are receiving the care they need and not being turned away for typical reasons that may exist elsewhere.” Bautista grew up in Sheldon, graduating from Sheldon High School in 2005. She later went on to th...

SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center has gradually transformed the interior of its downtown Sioux Center building since opening in 2008. Nine years later, the former bowling alley building now is full. The health center recently completed a 2,200-square-foot interior expansion and remodeling project that filled the remaining vacant space in the west portion of the building. Schelling Construction of Sioux Center served as the general contractor. A group of Sioux Center Middle School eighth- graders use Promise Community Health Center's new community education/conference room for a presentation. The room was part of Promise's recently-completed interior expansion project. “The expansion and remodel of space at Promise says that we will continue to grow and change – always looking for ways that best meet the needs of those we seek to serve,” said Nancy Dykstra, executive director of Promise. The interior expansion project includes a much larger community education/conf...

SIOUX CENTER – Stephanie Van Ruler grew up in Sioux Center believing and dreaming that she had to go elsewhere to live out God’s plan for her life. But now she realizes that was “a narrow perspective.” Sioux Center is her place to serve others. Her life pathway now has led her to Promise Community Health Center , where she will serve in the newly created role of nurse health coach. Stephanie Van Ruler has assumed the new role of nurse health coach at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. She is eager to "serve, love and walk beside" people to help them become healthier.   “Each point, each encounter and each decision I have made up to this point in my life was part of a greater plan that included Sioux Center and serving the diverse community of God’s children right here,” Van Ruler said. “I believe and daily strive to see each person as a unique and beautiful child of God who deserves respect, love and someone to believe in them.” She thinks that is embodied in Pr...