ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 8 June 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jay Smith. This is the first in a series of three webinars this month on Understanding Islam with renowned Christian apologist Dr Jay Smith. Muslim tradition teaches that Mecca is the oldest and possibly the greatest of all cities; that Adam and Eve were thrown down to it; that Abraham lived in it; and that this...

Recorded on 1 June 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Walt Larimore. Christian health professionals often have little training in how and when to incorporate spiritual interventions in clinical care. Walt Larimore, MD, a co-author of ICMDA’s "Saline Process" and CMDA’s "Grace Prescriptions," who has spoken in previous webinars about praying with...

Recorded on 25 May 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Rudi Mygovich. Rudi is the president of the Christian Medical Association of Ukraine and will share how God has been at work during the ongoing war in Ukraine. He will share stories of people who saw terrible things, but at the same time saw the good hand of God. There are encouragements in the darkest of situations...

Recorded on 18 May 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Mark Pickering. In the 1820s and 30s, early mission pioneers realized the immense value of combining the healing of the body with the preaching of the gospel. This led to the launch of the Medical Missionary Society in China, which influenced many others in the UK, USA and far beyond. The modern medical missiona...

Recorded on 11 May 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathews chairs a webinar with Dr Rebekah Zechariah & Team. The practice of Christ-centered Family Medicine is the need of the hour in delivering Christ-centered healthcare all across the world. Health professionals are looking for those skills that will help them see their patients, families and communities as a whole and offer care that...

Recorded on 4 May 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Johann Ebenezer & Dr Praveen Alexander. Drs Johann and Praveen are members of the Mental Health Team at CMC Vellore, India and are primarily involved with the design, development and teaching of the Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health (PGDMH) and the Certificate in Community Mental Health (CCMH). These are...

Recorded on 27 April 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jay Smith. How can we better understand and explain the differences between the God of the Bible and the Allah of the Qur'an? Join renowned Christian evangelist Jay Smith as he explains the hermeneutical key which helps us to better understand the gulf which exists between Christianity and Islam and how it...

Recorded on 20 April 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Rick Allen. Healthcare missions, typically conducted in low resource environments is both demanding and exhausting. The impact on one’s life can cross professional, relational, and spiritual boundaries. Pre-field healthcare missionaries are not typically prepared for the demands they will encounter. In addition,...

Recorded on 13 April 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Tan Lai Yong. Dr Tan has spent 15 years (1996 to 2010) running village health worker training programs in Yunnan, China. During this webinar he will share insights, mistakes made, and reflections on his experiences. Associate Professor Tan Lai Yong graduated as a medical doctor from the National University of...

Recorded on 6 April 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rachael Pickering. This series equips healthcare professionals to respond to the evils of torture and ill-treatment. The first session looked at definitions, types, the law, and God's heart for the persecuted. The second session examined best practice CARE - Caring, Advocating, Recording and Evidencing.  Th...

Recorded on 30 March 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Chris Jenkins. Spiritual warfare is a reality that all Christians will encounter. However, not all spiritual battles involve open power encounters with forces of darkness. Though these may receive more attention, the more pervasive conflict takes place in our minds. What is the example Paul uses? To gain spiri...

Recorded on 23 March 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Shari Falkenheimer Missions is not geographic, but cross-cultural. God is bringing the nations to us so that we can reach out to them where we live and work. They may be more open to the gospel while out of their own cultural setting. Many are never in a Christian’s home while in their new country and are inte...

Recorded on 16 March 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Pablo Martinez We all dream about a successful life, but what are success and failure in God´s eyes? What is success for our society? The answer to these questions contains a very important key to living a life according to God´s heart, free from the tyranny of self-ambition. The world measures success or fail...

Recorded on 9 March 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Mark Pickering chairs a webinar with Dr Richard Winter There is obviously nothing wrong with striving for excellence but sometimes that pursuit seduces us into the unhealthy realms of perfectionism. Our culture surrounds us with images of perfect bodies, perfect houses, perfect cars... We will explore the assets and liabilities of perfectionism, delv...

Recorded on 23February 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Alex Bloek chairs a Q&A with Dr Augustin Lutakwa. The upcoming ICMDA World Congress due to take place in Arusha from 20-25 June 2023 will be the 17th World Congress coinciding with the 60th-anniversary celebration of the ICMDA. Organizing these four-yearly events is a massive undertaking. It requires human capital as well as financial capital...

Recorded on 23February 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr John Greenall chairs a Q&A with Dr Mhoira Leng. Compassionate care for the whole person is at the heart of palliative care. Walking alongside people and their families facing chronic illness and into the end of their lives is an immense privilege. In many parts of the world this care is not available representing one of the greatest health ine...

Recorded on 16 February 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a Q&A with Prof John Whitehall. Professor John Whitehall is the chair of CMDF Australia and Professor of Paediatrics at Western Sydney University. His 50 year career began at Sydney University, continued through developing countries and western Sydney as a general paediatrician, then focussed on neonatology before coming...

Recorded on 9 February 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a Q&A with Prof John Lennox. The Neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution, the so-called modern synthesis is still regarded by many as ruling out theism. However, in order to establish this, two things need to be shown to be true: 1) that it is philosophically legitimate to deduce atheism (a worldview) from biology (a...

Recorded on 2 February 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Walt Larimore. The use of a spiritual assessment by health professionals as part of a social history has been considered a vital part of quality whole-person health care for decades. However, virtually all of the spiritual assessment tools in use today (i.e., GOD, HOPE, FICA, SPIRIT, etc.) fail t...

Recorded on 26 January 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Trevor Stammers. Rates for deceased donations greatly vary across the world but organ transplantation heavily depends on them and virtually exclusively so for vital organs such as the heart. But this raises many ethical questions about the nature of death. Can the dead be harmed? Who should give...

Recorded on 19 January 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr John Greenall. What does it look like to develop leaders in a national parachurch movement? How do we leverage the time and talents of gifted but busy professionals? This webinar will consider how we can recruit, select, equip, and then lead volunteer leaders to multiply themselves for the sake o...

Recorded on 12 January 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Daniel O'Neill. We all know that healing was a large part of the public ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. The major world religions and the primal religions share the concept of a divine healer. But what was unique about Jesus’ healing ministry? During this webinar we will explore the patterns of th...

Recorded on 5 January 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Alex Bolek. Leadership is one of the most challenging areas in Christian Ministry. For hundreds and thousands of years, many types of leadership have been developed, but though some of those leadership styles are good, something important is missing in them, the element of being a servant. The ter...

Recorded on 15 December 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Steven Willing. The "sexual revolution” - as most understand it - began in Western societies in the decade of the 60s. It promoted a sexual narrative directly opposed to not only Christian teaching, but universal principles that guided most of human civilization. Yet, most research over the last...

Recorded on 8 December 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Calum Miller. Even among pro-life people, there is often debate about what really stops abortions from happening. Is it best to pass laws protecting unborn children and women from abortion directly, or is sex education and family planning the real solution? What about welfare to practically provi...