Recorded on 19 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Vinod Shah

In addressing problems, we often take a forward approach—assessing strengths and weaknesses (e.g., SWOT) before moving to strategic planning. In this session, however, I am adopting a different method: working backward from the desired impact.

I have identified 10 interconnected health-related impact categories that could transform India's healthcare landscape. The audience will then explore how they can contribute to one or more of these areas. No specific model is prescribed—whether it’s a mission hospital, clinic, or public-private partnership. The focus is simply on making a meaningful, positive impact on at least one or two proposed factors. Since these factors are interconnected, it will have a domino effect on the others.

Although tailored for the Indian context, this reverse-engineering approach can be applied globally and fosters innovation.

Recorded on 12 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steven Willing

Recorded on 5 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Fi McLachlan & Prof Sam Leinster

Why and how should healthcare professionals engage in advocacy on matters of health? How can we approach this and how do we both use, but not abuse, our positions in respect of those in need in the communities we serve?

What might some of the barriers be to engaging in advocacy on health issues?

Fi McLachlan is the Head of UK CMF Global, has a background in healthcare management and mission having worked with marginalised groups e.g. those addicted to drugs, people living with HIV etc.

Recorded on 28 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Alex Bolek

ICMDA has eight strategic priorities. Two of these priorities are: ‘Establishing new movements’ and ‘Strengthening existing movements.’ This is comparable to the small church fellowships established in different regions mentioned in the Book of Acts:

“Then the church(es) throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace. It was strengthened; and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it grew in numbers, living in the fear of the Lord” (Acts 9:31).

In this Scripture we see that the churches were first started, then strengthened and multiplied.

In this webinar, we will share some steps on establishing and strengthening new movements and what the outcome are when a fellowship is strengthened.

Recorded on 21 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Chris Howles

The 21st century world is different. But are our methods and means of world mission remaining static? Since the turn of the century we've seen unprecedented increases in global migration, huge growth in the size and reach of the majority world church (and corresponding decline in the Western church), and the continued rise in trends such as urbanisation, polycentricism, and nationalism.

The gospel never changes and God's plans remain the same, but how should Christians think about global mission in light of these patterns and the many gospel possibilities that are inherent to them?

Visit https://www.fromeverynation.net for more on world mission

Recorded on 7 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Lindsay Brown

We will try to provide helpful answers to these (and other) questions in our time together.

Recorded on 31 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker

An historical approach to faith-based healthcare can offer insights into how government, medical groups, public health authorities, international organisations, and spiritual communities interact over the long term.

Historical analysis provides a vital (but often under-utilised) explanatory model for developing a coherent understanding of how and why faith-based providers have shaped health over many decades. Looking back allows us new insights into intractable debates as we forge shared paths forward.

By interrogating the competing actors in a health landscape such as Ghana across a century of large-scale political, economic and cultural changes, we can explore how faith-based providers have informed what global health has become.

Recorded on 24 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Peter Pilon

Starting with the printing of customised New Testaments for evangelism which were printed in 10 languages the City Bibles ministry grew to a ministry printing NT’s and Bibles in almost 150 languages distributed all over the world.

In 2017 we developed the interactive Gospel of John that formed a bridge between printed copies and digital reading. Since then we created a keychain with a QR-code and many global partners joined us. On the QR-code you can find the full Bible in over 2,000 languages as well as in text and audio, along with videos, testimonies, Bible studies and a kids app. Today millions of these keychains are being distributed all over the world with an increasing demand.

Recorded on 17 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Alex Bolek

Africa has a special place in the Bible. For instance, Patriarchs like Abraham visited Africa and Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus’ cross were African. The first European missionaries arrived in the continent as early as 1490. Africa is emerging as the “Centre of gravity of Christianity”.

Research predicts Africa to have the largest majority of Christian population by 2060, with four in ten Christians living in the continent. The Church in Africa is currently facing challenges like growth without depth, threats from other religions, political instability, economic disparity, infectious diseases, contemporary issues etc.

However, the church in Africa is responding to the socio-economic and health issues and more importantly, fulfilling the Great Commission.

Recorded on 10 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill

Yet most of us live on the spectrum. In the context of healthcare, we must face both and navigate the spectrum toward the renewal of all things. We will present a missiological healthcare framework in which we can labour toward renewal through understanding pathology, presence, practice with patience, partnerships, purging, power, and peace until parousia (the return).

For the Christian Journal for Global Health visit https://journal.cjgh.org/index.php/cjgh/index