Volume 8.4
Following in the steps of Jesus, missionaries are healers who bring wholeness and restoration. We live in a world full of sicknesses and disabilities, and the sick and disabled are a huge and needy people group. For this reason, every missionary association and church growth effort must include medical missions in their strategy. Modern medicine and therapy should be embraced as effective bridges to communicate God’s love to our needy world. To overlook this is to close wide doors of opportunity for gospel expansion.
Healing for a sick world
When we served among the Mumuye tribe in the mountains of Northern Nigeria, we tried several methods to gain their trust and attention, but nothing worked…until we introduced medicine. Once we started administering medical treatments, people beg...
Called: Dr. Sam Fabiano – A scalpel and a Bible
The patient lay on the operating table. I stood over him in my green scrubs, hands to my chest. I had done this procedure countless times, but I knew as much as everyone else in that room—like life itself, surgeries are unpredictable.
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The heartbeat of global missions
We treated a young lady of 18 years who came to ELWA Hospital with a condition requiring surgery. Her physical form was dire and her emotional state was equally fragile. Our team tended to her medical needs and shared the message of hope and ...
Nursing was my entry ticket
Nuura* needed to get this woman to the hospital fast. Her baby had defecated inside the womb, was not breathing properly, and was coming out legs first. She called an ambulance, but violent attacks and a curfew in nearby Garissa prevented the...
Witnesses for Christ in healthcare
Healthcare workers meet hurting people every day in healthcare settings. We hear about diseases, pain, the loss of dear ones, war, and poverty. People look to us for answers far beyond the chief complaints they present. This should be expecte...
My Saline Process experience
The rarest of opportunities to share Jesus Christ with nonbelievers is available to Christian health practitioners and medical students. Life comes through us at maternity, and we are usually the last human line of defence before departure fr...
Equipping health workers for missions
Healthcare workers around the world may have a desire to share their faith, but not know how to do so effectively. The organizations below have trainings and coaching which can help.
Scatter Global (SG) is a network and support ser...
Centre for the study of UPGs opens in Ghana
Lausanne Movement reports that between 1910 and 2010, the number of missionaries rose from 62,000 to 400,000. Despite the increase in the number of missionaries, churches, and mission agencies, many unreached people groups remain in the world...
Mental health and the Great Commission
For Dr. Prince C. Oteng-Boateng, running a mental health practice and doing missions are seamless; whether he is preaching at the pulpit or sitting across from a client, it’s all ministry.
“I was first introduced to missions when I...
People Group – the Kango
The Kango people, numbering less than 50,000, dwell on the banks and islands of the Uele River in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They are primarily fishermen. According to lore, their ancestor, Kango was a talented fisherman...
