Due credit to missionaries – from the Lancet Global Health Blog
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This blog explores how our medical work can align with God’s purposes. We don’t have to guess how to connect our work to the Kingdom of God. Understanding how healthcare fits into the whole story of the Bible will help us recover a sure foundation. A solid integration of healthcare and mission will help us move ahead with confidence and joy.
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An overlooked WWI legacy: maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa — from the Lancet Global Health Blog, November 2014 While medical missions provided 25-50% of maternal and child health care in sub-Saharan Africa throughout most of the 20th century, their…
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“And who is my neighbor?”
Yesterday I was talking with a nursing teacher who is an expert in the care of women with childbirth injuries called fistulas. SIM has a hospital caring for these women in rural Niger, West Africa. She is considering ways to…
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So what do we mean by healing, anyway?
As a young person in medical school, my view of health was confined to understanding disease processes, drugs and physical causes. Health had to do with the body, and things of the spirit didn’t overlap the physical world. As a…
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The wounded healer
When I arrived in Ethiopia in 1986 the country had been impoverished by communism, famine and long-standing poverty. I was trained in community health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and was ready to roll out a comprehensive community…
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“Why have you stricken us so that we are beyond healing?”
As healers we must face the limits of healing. Life and healing are a gift of God, and yet because of sin, He has set limits. Death itself is a limit to healing. We were created by God as the…
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“Why have you stricken us so that we are beyond healing?”
As healers we must face the limits of healing. Life and healing are a gift of God, and yet because of sin, He has set limits. Death itself is a limit to healing. We were created by God as the…
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Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
Last month my wife and I had our first visit to Jerusalem. We took these pictures at the site of the foundations of the wall of the original city of David, destroyed by the Babylonian army in 586 B.C. The…
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So where did hospitals come from anyway?
in HistoryMany of us have some sort of notion that hospitals are just a natural part of the community; the idea of a hospital must be handed down to us from classical times. But we we would be wrong. They were…
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What’s all the fuss?
The Ebola outbreak has been a big story, with over 25,000 separate news articles mentioning SIM since we first brought Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol out of Liberia to Emory Hospital. But our aim is not publicity. It is God’s…
