MedicalMissions.com Podcast

There are principles and strategies for creating and growing Kingdom-driven ministries that glorify God by serving the needy and engaging the international unreached. This session will explore the power of incarnational living, the centrality of the church, the link between serving the needy at home and overseas, and the importance of investing in younger disciples.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Rick Donlon, MD

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/starting-a-ministry-that-serves-the-poor-plants-churches-and-sends-international-missionaries

Living and working in settings with overwhelming poverty, malnutrition, disease, and death can result in accumulating stress, trauma, and burnout. How is it possible to endure in these settings for years? What strategies enable us to not only endure but to do so with joy? We'll discuss the value of remembering with gratitude, lamenting in community with national and missionary colleagues, and looking forward with hope.

Session recorded on November 7 2024 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Session block #1

Speaker name: Alyssa Pfister

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/enduring-hard-times-with-joy

Medical education has a potentially powerful role in global health. This breakout will explore some ways that medical education can not only support patient care but also augment research capacity building to better care for critically ill patients in resource-limited countries.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Burton Lee

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/supporting-global-critical-care-in-resource-limited-countries-through-medical-education

Edyta and Robert provide a first-person localized account of working with refugees and individuals touched by war and forced emigration due to the ongoing crisis of Russian aggression in Ukraine. They focus first on defining the new wartime reality and emotional state of individuals crossing the Polish border and then move on to discuss their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs originating in the crisis of war. (shock, identity loss, grief/guilt, and PTSD). Finally, they outline a tentative way forward, using examples from Proem Ministries response as a „movement towards hope and meaning” on many levels.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Maui Dwulat

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/crossing-borders-community-development-and-healing-during-the-war-in-ukraine

Improving Healthcare Outcomes for Patients and Providers in Medical Missions via Telehealth - In this session, you will learn how coordinate continuity of care, share medical knowledge and field insights and access resources to help improve healthcare outcomes for patients by leveraging healthcare information and technology systems both in the field and virtually.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speakers: Roosevelt Fenelus; Jeff Lee; Hau Liu

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/connecting-medical-mission-providers-virtually-and-globally

God is our creator and provider. It is exciting to tell people about what God is doing around the world and how they can be a part of it. Prayer is a huge part of going to work cross culturally. You can raise up a great team to partner with you to pray for you, to pray for the country you are in, also to make a difference for the kingdom so people do not live and die without hearing the gospel. It can be overwhelming to think about raising support. If God is calling you to the mission field, don't let the fear of raising support you hold you back.

Session recorded on Friday, November 10th during Session Block #5 at 4:00 PM EST ; speaker: Herschel Rothchild

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/joy-and-excitement-in-prayer-and-support-raising

Dramatic change in mid-career may seem too much, but God can and does call certain workers to a new role and prepares their hearts, and their spouses hearts for a new adventure following Him. See how God has prepared the way and worked through career ego, family, professional and personal health and "leaving" issues, as well as personal finances and support -raising and more.

Session recorded on Friday, November 10th during Session Block #5 at 4:00 PM EST ; speaker: G Randall Bond

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/finishing-your-career-in-full-time-missions-opportunities-barriers-and-solutions

In this seminar we will redefine the labels and terminologies commonly used to describe the singleness or unmarried persons. We will highlight the leading advantages, positive gains, and additional achievements that unmarried people possess and actually enjoy. There are a lot of advantages and freedoms for serving alone in ministry— like uninterrupted focusing on tasks, managing time/schedule, easier decision-making process, setting budget/finances for spending, moving between housing and living situations, building multiple friendships, engaging in wide range of activities, planning and traveling, and enhancing local/global outreach.

In this session we will highlight the joys-rewards and the challenges-struggles of the single life of people who are involved in the helping professions, especially in Christian ministry and missions. We will define terminologies, correct misconceptions, encourage realistic expectations (of self-others-life-God), differentiate between legitimate psychological intimacy and physical sexuality, rediscover a biblical paradigm for creative singleness-living (solo-operation), and press on to develop a contented aloneness, instead of struggling with isolation and loneliness.

Session recorded on Friday, November 10th during Session Block #5 at 4:00 PM EST ; speaker: Naji Abi-Hashem, PhD

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/single-minded-singleness-handling-the-challenges-rewards-of-being-unmarried-in-ministry

Poverty and health are closely associated. The nations of poverty host lowest life expectancy, greatest child mortality, and highest preventable deaths. Three interventions are especially effective. First, promotion of broad-based economic development which usually enhances health infrastructure. Second, mitigation of military conflict, which especially afflicts those most vulnerable. Third, deployment of specific interventions that have proven particularly effective against the leading diseases of poverty.

Session recorded on Friday, November 10th during Session Block #5 at 4:00 PM EST ; speaker: Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIMPH

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/fighting-the-diseases-of-poverty

The "mPower Approach" trains and equips indigenous believers with basic dental skills to serve their communities and open doors for the gospel. This breakout will review promising practices in creating sustainable, replicable ministry, and examine how dentistry can be used to advance the gospel in difficult-to-reach communities.

Session recorded on Friday, November 10th during Session Block #5 at 4:00 PM EST ; speaker: Luke Taylor

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/blessed-are-those-who-pull-teeth-training-equipping-through-short-term-dental-missions