MedicalMissions.com Podcast

Christians are called to love yet often times, our communities are rife with conflict and unresolved hurt. Interpersonal conflict is cited as one of the major reasons why missionaries leave the mission field. Using concepts from Ken Sande’s Peacemakers and his personal experience working as a the Medical Director in an FQHC in Appalachia, Dr. Thomas will review … - The cost of conflict for the ind...

Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons(IDP’s) face significant challenges to their health and well-being that are unique, due to lack of necessary resources including food, water, sanitation, shelter, security and healthcare. Caring for people in these situations requires an understanding of their unique needs as well as having realistic goals regarding what can and cannot be done for the...

Stan Key was appointed President of The Francis Asbury Society on March 1, 2014. Stan and Katy Key come to FAS after 10 years of missionary service in Paris, France, and 18 years of pastoral leadership at Loudonville Community Church in Albany, New York. Joining the FAS team in January of 2013, Stan has contributed to the ministry of the Society through preaching, teaching, writing, and more recen...

Andrew recently completed writing his first book, entitled Scatter. His desire is that it will inspire a new generation to “scatter” into the hardest, furthest and darkest parts of the world, where they may experience an incredible adventure with God.

Dr. Juli Slattery is a Christian psychologist and co-founder of the ministry Authentic Intimacy. She holds degrees in psychology from Wheaton College, Biola University, an MS and Florida Institute of Technology.

Whether you see yourself as a leader or not, you play a critical role in determining the success of your experiences and those around you. How you plan, recruit, and execute your Short Term Trip strategy will impact your entire church/organization and any trip participants... the ripples of which you may never fully know. Don't have a Short Term Trip strategy yet? We can help you think through...

Girls and women in developing communities are often vulnerable and overlooked. Their potential roles as key players in promoting spiritual and physical health in their communities can easily remain unrecognized. Medical Ambassadors International's mission is equipping communities for Christ-centered health and development, and the Women's Cycle of Life is a curriculum and training that dir...

This survey was created by someone that God led on an amazing journey. In hindsight this person realizes they were on a quest. Their quest started with one goal, “To find a deeper, more intimate relationship with God—one in which they would be able to recognize God’s “still small voice.” Prior to The Quest, this person had been a fairly average Christian leader, with seasons of spiritual fervor an...

Faith-based organizations provide up to 70% or more of healthcare in some countries. They often work in remote locations among neglected people without any access to healthcare. Should faith-based hospitals and health programs partner with local governments and other actors in the public sector? Will collaboration compromise witness and mission? Or can collaboration expand resources, opportunity a...

As a young nurse, Aileen Coleman left her homeland of Australia in June 1955 for ministry in the Middle East. Sixty years later she remains in active ministry serving the Bedouin people in the Kingdom of Jordan. She will respond to questions reflecting on her years of service as a single women in the Muslim Middle East. She has a burden to see another generation of workers in this field.

This session will give the participants ways to: Identify the needed equipment and supplies for a therapy clinic on a short term missions trip; Identify the obstacles for the clinic to function properly and efficiently; Identify a time table for preparations for a short term trip with a therapy clinic; Identify the ways to prepare therapy supplies and equipment for transport on a short term trip;...

Medicine provides a unique opportunity to reach into the lives of Muslim people. Aileen Coleman will share how she and her colleagues have used the treatment of Tuberculosis and other chronic diseases to share the Gospel in the Muslim context.

Healthcare education and professional certification require core clinical competencies to be demonstrated before privileges are granted. In the midst of the endless cycle of healthcare training, experience, documentation and verification, there are ways to act with compassion. In global health we are called to balance competence through learning procedures, improving abilities, and honing skills,...

This session will include leaning how the following in a community setting can help with spiritual follow up in healthcare missions: - Utilize partnerships with local church planting agencies [Indian Christian agencies] - Utilize relationships of trust established at the hospital or through the Community health and development programs, realizing most of us come to know Christ thru such relationsh...

Want to know the key to raising resources for a life-time of ministry or for a short-term mission trip – its Effective Ministry Partnership Development (MPD). We’ll address how correct thinking, biblical principles and practical principles are the key. This session will explain “why people give,” “how to effectively gain their support and involvement,” “ways to grow your list of prospects” and “wh...

With the staggering rates of global disasters, terrorism, and even abuse in our own backyards trauma and it's debilitating affects are increasing at a terrifying rate here in the United States and around the world. Survivors of trauma need to gain healing from a variety of healthcare professionals. Trauma affects each aspect of an individual's life and requires the knowledge and understand...

This session will look at previous outbreaks of disease among missionaries. This session will also identify resources for travelers to learn about health risks associated with international travel, such as CDC's Travelers' health page containing the most up-to-date information about health needs for individuals traveling overseas.

Preparing for yourself or others for missions includes learning how to stay safe and healthy while traveling. Experts from CDC will offer information on how to avoid diseases, including those spread by mosquitoes and unsafe food and water.

If you are ministering in a Muslim community, it is imperative to understand the cultural implications of Islam. This session will address those implications from a speaker that grew up in those communities.

Jesus cured individuals and transformed society. As doctors on the edges of the Kingdom, we are called to care for the suffering patient as well as the crumbling community. A medical mission's approach that integrates curative and public health will be stronger than focusing on either alone; these are complementary not mutually exclusive options.

Children under the age of five are at the highest risk for mortality due to malnutrition. Many times the malnutrition is because of a lack of understanding of proper nutrition and ways to wisely use limited funds. We will look at two examples of nutritional programs in South Asia.

Women’s health issues are rarely discussed in impoverished communities in South Asia. Health education stories change the physical health of the women in a community, but the stories of the Gospel change lives for eternity. Henna is widely used decorating hands and feet for weddings. A program of using henna to share the Gospel through visual designs in Biblical stories was developed in South Asia...

• This session will provide a review of diseases that have been seen in the United States recently but are typically considered tropical diseases. The discussion will examine epidemiology, transmission, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases.

This session will give an overview of cancer patients in Africa, with a discussion of the difficulties patients face in getting access to diagnosis and treatment. We will also look at over view of the oncology program at Mbingo Baptist Hospital and discuss future possibilities in improving cancer care in Africa.

Should Muslims who enter the Kingdom through Jesus remain Muslim Insiders? Whether or not they should, they ARE. Tens of thousands of Muslims from diverse corners of the Muslim world are transferring allegiance from Mohammed and the Qur’an to Messiah Jesus and His Kingdom of grace … while remaining part of the Uma of Islam (Muslim Community). Beyond orthodoxy (correct beliefs – we’ll demonstrate j...