CMF news: spring 2002
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Feeling a Burden?
As I write this the 'jury is out' on two right-to-die cases. The first involves a woman, Miss B, with quadriplegia after a spinal haemorrhage who wants her ventilator switched off. The second is that of Diane Pretty, a 43 year old woman with motor neurone disease, who is wanting the European Court...
New Appointments
New Student Secretary - Mark Pickering joined the CMF staff as Student Secretary (part-time) on 11 February. Mark, many CMF members will already know you as a past student editor of Nucleus and as a London student staffworker but what does this new post involve? My main task will be co-ordinating...
New Staff Still Needed
Assistant General Secretary - We are looking to develop CMF's ministry further by appointing a full time medically qualified Assistant General Secretary to work alongside Peter Saunders and share his current duties covering the full range of CMF's activities. Postgraduate medical qualification...
Member's News
Congratulations - On their postgraduate qualifications Becky MacFarlane MRCGP On their awards and appointments Chris Lavy Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons Rod McRorie Daksha-Diksha Award for 'outstanding service to the people of Nepal' by HM Government of Nepal John Campbell...
CMF on the Media
Euthanasia, Cloning, Morning after pill, cannabis...Every week it seems there is a new issue in medical ethics making front page news. CMF has been raising its media profile and since November 2001 has been working with Evangelical Alliance Media Consultancy to respond to major bioethics news...
Mission and Overseas News
Training Developing World Church Leaders - Chris Wright (formerly principal of All Nations Christian College) has just taken over from John Stott as International Director of The Langham Partnership (UK and Ireland), an amalgamation of the Langham Scholarship Programme and the Evangelical...
Finances
The year-end figures have been very encouraging indeed, and we are immensely grateful for the significant generosity of very many members in funding the Fellowship's work in addition to their membership subscription (membership subscriptions contribute only 25% of the Fellowship's total income, and...
Upcoming Conferences
CMF National Conference 26-28 April 2002 - You will have received a brochure for this, the main graduate event of the CMF year, with this edition of Triple Helix. We look forward to seeing you there. Please book soon. Overseas Update Course - 24 June - 5 July 2002 - This excellent course for all...
Juniors
Sink or Swim! - About 35 came to the National Juniors' Day Conference in Birmingham on 16 March to hear Andy Gemmill (medically qualified pastor from Nottingham) give two superb addresses on Romans 7 and 8 which were followed up in small group discussion. The key message was that the struggle...