As the new academic year kicks off there are plenty of freshers' events going on in CMF groups around the country. This is an excellent time for putting on evangelistic events and recruiting new members to CMF. Sandra Hartley has sent out over a thousand freshers' packs to help spread...
Alex Bunn has settled in well as assistant student secretary. He will be overseeing summer teams and the national students' conference, amongst other things. This increase in capacity is already bearing fruit, for which we praise God. The national students' committee met on 8 April and it was an exciting...
It was a great day in the House of Lords on 12 May when Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill was defeated by a majority of 148-100. It is comparatively rare nowadays to hold a vote at the second reading of a bill in the upper house,...
Returning from the National Students' Conference on 10-12 February, I was struck with a palpable sense of what God is doing amongst CMF's students. 330 were present to hear Mark Ashton's challenging talks from Matthew 16-18 and Peter Saunders' excellent conference address on Radical Discipleship in Medicine – an electrifying...
You don’t have to look far these days to stumble across alternative medicine. Whether it’s homoeopathy at the pharmacy, the osteopath in the high street or acupuncture at the GP surgery, alternative medicine is everywhere and the sheer number of claims and therapies can be bewildering. It’s been estimated that...
As we roll into another year my mind is fixed very much on the National Students’ Conference on 10-12 February, ‘Radical King, Radical Kingdom’. By the time this newsletter reaches you, bookings will be rolling in and final preparations will be being laid. Pray for Mark Ashton, giving Bible addresses...
We give thanks to God for this year’s round of CMF summer teams. Teams went to Russia (Kursk), Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Albania, France and the Czech Republic. The Kursk and Kyrgyzstan teams were regional conferences for Russia and Central Asia respectively, with large UK teams. There were...
Working with CMF Dr Rachael Pickering looks at how some doctors are using flexible working patterns to work with CMF CMF's student ministry is vitally supported by an able and willing team of staffworkers and relay workers. Each staffworker covers a few medical schools in one geographical region, and...
CMF’s student section has progressed steadily during the past year and we thank the Lord for a student membership of around 1,160. Following on from the excellent National Students’ Conference on 21-23 January plans are progressing nicely for the 2006 conference on 10-12 Feb 2006, with Mark Ashton (St Andrew the...
Have you ever been embarrassed by the miracles in the Bible? Have you winced at the thought of defending them before your medical colleagues? How about the account of creation,[2] the ten plagues of the Exodus,[3] the day the sun stood still,[4] or perhaps some of the healing miracles of...