Category: Medical missions history
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Why should public health be part of our Christian commitment to mission? Isn’t curative care enough?
Why should a preventive approach complement the strong medical component of medical missions?
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Medical Missions, an assessment by a historian
Christoffer Grundmann writes, “Most nineteenth-century people, medics and theologians alike, paid little, if any attention to medical missions — even if they were addressing mission. And when they did, they almost always did so in very limited confines, leaving their discussions to circles of experts. This isolation made it even more difficult for any general…
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The Work of the New York Medical Missionary Society
I was recently at a meeting where the idea of a medical missions institute was proposed, in order to enable our healthcare missionaries to better flourish in their international settings. In fact over 65 different agencies send out missionaries from America; if we add Canadians, Indians, Australians, Nigerians, British, South Africans, etc the number of…
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An Upside down World. Distinguishing between home and mission field no longer makes sense. Christopher J.H. Wright
Chris Wright is the international director of the Langham Partnership. He wrote “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Intervarsity, 2006). This CT article highlights the changes in Global Christianity, where the “old peripheries are now the center.” He speaks of our “blindness to the ways Western Christianity is infected by cultural idolatry.” …