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December 13, 2024 Webinar #227 Dr Steven Willing - Empty cradles, empty nurseries
Recorded on 12 December 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steven Willing
As if reading from the same script, both the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal ran feature-length articles recently on the plummeting birth rates of the advanced Euro-American and East Asian nations. This phenomenon has been known for some time and continues to grow. Why is it a problem? What are the causes? What are the solutions?
Dr. Steven Willing is an academic neuroscientist with over 40 years of clinical experience in academic and private settings. He is currently a consultant in radiology at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, a pediatric neuroradiologist for Children’s of Alabama, a visiting scholar with Reasons to Believe, and an Adjunct Professor of Divinity at Regent University.
Dr. Willing is the author of Atlas of Neuroradiology, and more recently, Superbia: The Perils of Pride. The Power of Humility. His personal blog on science apologetics, “The Soggy Spaniel,” may be found at www.swilling.com.
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57 min
December 05, 2024 Webinar #226 Fi McLachlan & Dr Sam Leinster - Global Advocacy - our responsibility?
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.
Sam is a retired General Surgeon with a special interest in Surgical Oncology and Medical Education. He was Professor of Surgery at the University of Liverpool before becoming the Inaugural Dean of Norwich Medical School and is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education at UEA. He has been involved with CMF for over 40 years and has been a member of the Board of Trustees and President.
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57 min
November 28, 2024 Webinar #225 Dr Alex Bolek - Establishing new national movements
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.
Brother Alex studied medicine at the University of Oradea in Romania and has a Masters in Public and Tropical Health. He has worked as a GP and Medical Director in Khartoum, Sudan, and also for JHPIEGO and other international NGOs. He is the chairman of the CMDA in South Sudan, is the Africa Coordinator for ICMDA, and is the ICMDA Regional Secretary for East Africa. He is married to Helen and together they help care for 14 nephews and nieces.
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53 min
November 21, 2024 Webinar #224 Chris Howles - Global Mission: 21st century patterns and possibilities
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?
Chris Howles is 'Director of Cross-Cultural Training' at Oak Hill College, London where he helps equip theological students for intercultural mission and ministries in a globalised world both in the UK and internationally. Previously, he served as 'Head of Theology' in a large Bible college on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda for 12 years. Chris is the founder and lead of the missions-resourcing website www.fromeverynation.net which helps to equip Christians with excellent quality relevant and recent resources related to world mission, world church, and world Christianity through the monthly email 'Mission Hits'.
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Visit https://www.fromeverynation.net for more on world mission
57 min
November 20, 2024Webinar #223 Lindsay Brown - Reaching the University for Christ
Recorded on 7 November 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Lindsay Brown
Why is student ministry so important/strategic in fulfilling God’s purposes?

How have medics played a significant role in student ministry globally?

What can we learn from Scripture and past church history about how to engage with students?

What should be our goals/key emphases in helping to present Christian students mature in Christ?
We will try to provide helpful answers to these (and other) questions in our time together.
Lindsay Brown is a native of Wales. He studied European history at Oxford (MA) and theology at the Free Faculty of Theology at Vaux-sur-Seine, near Paris, under Henri Blocher. Lindsay has worked with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) for the past 45 years in a variety of roles, including serving as International Director. More recently, he has been leading the Fellowship of Evangelists in the Universities of Europe (FEUER). FEUER’s main goal is the development of a Europe-wide network of public university evangelists who work in partnership with indigenous student ministries throughout every country in Europe. He is the author of Shining Like Stars – The Power of the Gospel in the World’s Universities (IVP) and Into All the world – The Missionary Vision of Calvin and Luther (Christian Focus), which was written after a presentation at the European Leadership Forum several years ago.
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November 01, 2024 Webinar #222 Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker - 100 years of mission, health & development in Ghana
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.
Dr Benjamin Bronnert Walker is a historian of global health and religion, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the Strategic Portfolio Manager for the Diocese of Leeds in the Church of England and coordinates the Anglican Health and Community Network, the official global health network of the Anglican Communion. His book 'Religion in Global Health and Development: The Case of Twentieth Century Ghana’ was published in April 2022 by McGill-Queen's University Press. The research was funded by the Wellcome Trust and he was based in the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York (UK).
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53 min
October 24, 2024 Webinar #221 Dr Peter Pilon - Distributing Bibles in the 21st century
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.
My name is Peter J.H. Pilon from the Netherlands. I am a retired family doctor since 2004. In the eighties and nineties, we smuggled Bibles behind the “iron curtain” and in the former communistic countries.
In the nineties we produced the first canonic Bible for Macedonia which was finished in 1999. During those days we evangelized in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece.
After that we worked for 10 years in our hometown Veenendaal and organized weekly “seeker services” where many found our Lord Jesus Christ. In 2009 the City Bible foundation was launched and is now a worldwide ministry producing millions of customized NT’s and Bibles.
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For more info visit https://biblefactory.org/
57 min
October 17, 2024 Webinar #220 Dr Alex Bolek - The State of the Church in Africa
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.
Brother Alex studied medicine at the University of Oradea in Romania and has a Masters in Public and Tropical Health. He has worked as a GP and Medical Director in Khartoum, Sudan, and also for JHPIEGO and other international NGOs. He is the chairman of the CMDA in South Sudan, is the Africa Coordinator for ICMDA, and is the ICMDA Regional Secretary for East Africa. He is married to Helen and together they help care for 14 nephews and nieces.
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56 min
October 11, 2024 Webinar #219 Dr Daniel O'Neill - Making all things new
Recorded on 10 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill
In the biblical story line, there is a vivid contrast between good news and bad news, between life and death, between good and evil. From the very beginning humanity is presented with the options of blessings and curses, of choosing life or death.
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).
Daniel O’Neill, MD, MTh is a physician-theologian and managing editor of Christian Journal for Global Health, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and holds a master’s degree in biblical & theological studies from Bethel Seminary. He has served on health and development projects among impoverished or displaced populations. He is a co-founder of Health for All Nations and author and co-editor of the book All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health.
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For the Christian Journal for Global Health visit https://journal.cjgh.org/index.php/cjgh/index
54 min
October 07, 2024 Webinar #218 Rick Allen - Compassionate love: How God is blessing a hurting world
Recorded on 3 October 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Rick Allen
This webinar will focus on the impact that healthcare missionaries are having throughout the world. Rick will be sharing several of the stories outlining how God has been working in and through healthcare professionals as a means of sharing the love of Jesus. Listen in to hear of a powerful movement of God, throughout the world, to use healthcare as a means to demonstrate the love of God on a hurting world.
The CEO of MedSend, Rick Allen, has recently published a book “Compassionate Love - How God is blessing a hurting world”.
In the last 30 years MedSend has provided 700 educational based grants to healthcare professionals from the USA and 125 individuals in Africa and Asia to bring the love of Jesus through healthcare.
Rick spent 25 years in executive roles within the computer software business. He was called out of business to be a pastor and run MedSend which provides grants and scholarships for healthcare professionals to live out their calling. Rick stepped away from the role as pastor several years ago and is now the full-time CEO of MedSend. He desires to see many come to know the love of Jesus through the delivery of compassionate healthcare.
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For more from MedSend visit https://medsend.org
46 min