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Summer Appeal 2023

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£0£80,000

encouraging praying Christian communities in every healthcare setting

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2023 summer appeal

help us raise £80,000 to encourage praying Christian communities in every healthcare setting

We know that life is tough in healthcare right now. The recent disputes over pay and conditions across the UK are just one indication of the deep disquiet and fragmentation that many of our colleagues feel.

Yet two vital components are usually missing from the debates and campaigns about workforce morale - these are prayer and community. CMF helps to build local groups, regional networks, and specific communities where friendship, mentoring, and prayer can sustain us for the long haul, helping us all to live and speak for Jesus.

Here are a few examples of how we're doing that:

For 24 hours before National Conference, members of our 16 regional Catalyst Teams gathered to share resources and discern the next steps as we seek to establish Catalyst Teams across the whole of the UK and Ireland. One team leader recently commented, 'CMF equips and enables us to live and speak for Christ locally; I have the support, access, and connections I need'.

We're also developing Specialty Networks to connect members in particular disciplines. Currently, we have such networks in obstetrics and gynaecology, and psychiatry. We have plans for more, including palliative care and general practice. Our vision is for each member, from students to retirees, to be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary, Christian community in their own specialty area - working out the specific opportunities and challenges with those who understand.

We know that healthcare leadership holds particular challenges and real opportunities for Christians. It's a chance to be salt and light, bringing constructive input instead of cynicism. CMF's Christians in Healthcare Leadership Network unites members in leadership roles for monthly prayer. At a recent day conference (featured on our 1st Incision podcast), one member commented, 'It can feel a slightly scary landscape, so it is fantastic to be able to link up with like-minded individuals'.

Christian healthcare workers in the Republic of Ireland are few and isolated. But since our Irish Conference last October, we now host a growing online community of Christian graduates and student leaders from across the Republic. It has grown steadily in six months to over 40 and is beginning to form the kind of supportive, praying community we long to see, with increasing links to CMF's more established network in Northern Ireland.

We could not do any of this without your ongoing support - the opportunities and needs are vast! Your giving enables our staff to nurture volunteers and members, hold events and produce resources across the British Isles to help us support every member in the locality, specialty, and role that the Lord calls them to.

Your financial gift will make a real difference, so please prayerfully consider giving a one-off donation to help us meet our target of £80k.

Giving regularly, or increasing your regular giving helps us to plan wisely and in a sustainable way. Just complete the attached form to give financially to our work. Even more than this, we would value your regular prayer support. If you want to receive our prayer diary, please email prayer@cmf.org.uk

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together…but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10:24-25

Yours in Christ

Mark Pickering Chief Executive

Euan McRorie, Chair Board of Trustees


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