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Vicky Lavy shares experiences of the International Christian Medical and Dental Association. To be honest, I was never very interested in ICMDA as a medical student and junior doctor – a shocking confession for the (now) Head of International Ministries. ICMDA is the umbrella body that links up Christian medical...
How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor… and Yourself Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert Moody, 2012 £10.00 Pb 274pp ISBN 9780802457066 Who thinks Christians should help the poor? Most of us. Who has given much thought to how we should do that? Not many of us. When Helping Hurts explores...
keypoints Caring for the sick has always been a hallmark of the Christian Church. Priorities have moved from service provision to teaching and training. Both faith-based organisations and the local church have important roles in health and healthcare. We have come a long way in the past 175 years....
Vicky Lavy highlights news from four CMF members. Nepal: fistula camps Shirley Heywood went to medical school because she felt called to work as a doctor in Nepal. She arrived there nine years ago, via Liverpool, London, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea. She works with International Nepal Fellowship (INF)...
Perspectives One of the joys of my job as CMF Head of International Ministries is that I meet people who are working all over the world. It's a privilege to hear about their different challenges and learn from their different perspectives. The tip of the iceberg At last year's Developing...
Who is my neighbour? Have you been to our one-day workshop on medical mission? It's a day for those who are exploring possibilities in international work, and also for those who plan to stay put but want to support others. We've now run eight workshops - up to Edinburgh, down...
The turn-of-the-year cholera crisis in Haiti that followed the earthquake saw ten CMF doctors travel there to provide treatment, effectively launching the new 'STAT list' of members able to meet short term needs overseas. Vivid accounts describing the short term situation include a new clinical sign – the 'Nokia sign' means...
'It was terrible – people were just lying beside the road, with nowhere to go. Children were on the ground, scraping up bits of rice that someone had dropped. People were drinking the flood water.' Dr Nadeem Hidayat described the scenes he witnessed the day the flood swept through Pakistan's...
Developing Health course (The diary extracts that follow appeared roughly every other day on the CMF website, and on the Facebook and blog pages.) Day 2 …wonderful couple of days, with the combination of excellent medical teaching and spiritual inspiration which makes this course unique…whistled through the...
