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The Man From Heaven (Daniel 7) One like a son of man came with the clouds of heaven to confront the four beasts that Daniel saw rise from the sea to cause havoc on earth. This man approached the Ancient of Days and was given a kingdom, which unlike the...
You are a Christian health professional. You belong to a church where you enjoy the worship, teaching and friendship of the other Christians. You love Jesus and recognise he has changed your life. But you feel there is something more that you should be doing with your life and with...
This is Peter writing. I would like to tell you about Christmas in Arhiba. Arhiba where we work is the poorest area of one of the poorest countries in the world. The rate of under-nutrition in the Horn of Africa 78% compared with 68% in Afghanistan and 52% in North...
'In Peru people have a natural suspicion of doctors,' says Latin Link's John Jameson. As a GP working in Villa María, a shantytown outside Lima, his caring approach is different from the limited time most hard-pressed Peruvian doctors can give. Though well qualified, they are driven by the expectations and...
You have to be pretty determined to get to Mahadaga. The most direct way from neighbouring Benin involves crossing the Atacora hills, which at its worst is a barely discernible track on exposed rock. At its steepest part the way zigzags and the car lurches from boulder to boulder in...
I did my elective in Niger, a landlocked, Muslim-majority West African country straddling the Sahara. It is large, about twice the size of Texas. It houses a population about three times that of Wales. Most of the locals rely on subsistence farming, and food is only plentiful when the harvest...
London and its Asian patients As a final year medical student in the East End of London I have had had three years of clinical experience in a very multi-cultural environment. I live in the vicinity of the hospital so that exposure continues beyond my working day. Tower Hamlets has...
Before my elective, I had never left the developed west. I already had friends in Central Asia, but I was to live with a local Muslim family. I spoke a little Russian and they spoke little English. From the start I knew that I would have to rely on God...
