Category: Growth and discipleship
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How to prepare medical missionaries — part 2
Where do our people suggest you might go for community health and health education; leadership and management; theology of work and mission; and tropical and international medical courses? Take a look.
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How to prepare medical missionaries
Where would you find a curriculum to prepare healthcare workers who serve Christ cross-culturally? Here are some of the needed elements of preparation from the perspective of 100 active SIM medical missionaries.
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First Year on the Field – YouTube
You will hear many of our friends in SIM as they talk about the first year serving the Lord overseas. I love SIM! I love the Lord, for He is so gracious. Join us!
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"Every Good Endeavor"
Tim Keller tackles the dualism of sacred vs secular work head on, helping us integrate our faith and work. We are not immune to this dualism in healthcare missions. One of our medical missionaries said to me that she was told ‘to get a ministry’ outside of the 70 hours-per-week that she was working in…
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Competence and confidence
I’ve been talking about a lot of big ideas in these posts: how to share the love of Christ in healthcare ministry ‘over there.’ You may get the impression, “Hey, there are a lot of big ideas here. Am I competent to do this? How can I have enough confidence that I can make a…
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Highlights shared by SIM medical missionaries
We have 250 medical professionals serving in SIM. We recently surveyed some of them. We asked each one to share a highlight of their ministry. Here are some of their responses. One bullet point per person: The opportunity to develop relationships with Muslims as patients, staff and colleagues Working with vesicovaginal fistula patients (VVF). The…
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Myths of medical missions
Medical mission work must have an vision, a framework for understanding how it fits into the work of God in the world. This framework must come out of our understanding of Scripture. Many times however we can operate on faulty frameworks, wrong assumptions about God, the world, healing and redemption. Here are a few “myths”…
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Racial Reconciliation
Tim Keller wrote “Generous Justice” in 2010. He speaks there about John Perkins’ strategy for rebuilding poor communities (Perkins has been a leader in community development and racial reconciliation for many years in the USA). I think the principle he articulates from John Perkins is so important for a vital, cross cultural, gospel-shaped ministry of…
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Healer of soul and body
I have treated patients in Ethiopia, Asia and North America, and know something of the troubles that patients bring to doctors. Here we read that Jesus also attracted many people who sought Him out for healing. Since He is the Son of God, He had the power to heal them — and He did so.…
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A god-complex?
“When we look at today’s church it is easy to see the prevalence of individualism among ministers and priests. Not too many of us have a vast repertoire of skills to be proud of, but most of us still feel that, if we have anything at all to show, it is something we have to…