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Your Call™ has been created to encourage and keep those with a "call" focused on that "call." It shares advice from missionaries with experience on the field, information about working in hard-to-access countries, stories from the field, etc. If you are one of those people with a "call" this blog is for you.

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Untidy Suffering

Untidy Suffering

By Ruth Lindberg | October 3, 2024

Just months before the end of our four-year term in Nepal, a young mother died at our hospital. Though our staff did nothing wrong and worked tirelessly to save her, those local leaders took advantage of the situation to foment hostility. Before we knew it, a volatile, angry mob was at our door, making demands and threats.

Embracing Suffering as Part of Our Calling: Submitting Our Circumstances to His Will

Embracing Suffering

By Dr K | October 3, 2024

I am a family medicine physician three years out of residency seeking to rejoice in what I am suffering for the sake of His body. I live with my husband and our three young children, with a fourth on the way, in a Central Asian country run by a terrorist group very much in need of the gospel.

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Calling and Discernment

By Ann Thyle, MD | August 14, 2024

The hospital lacked a blood bank, providing only refrigeration for limited-time storage in sterile glass bottles with rubber stoppers. The nearest blood bank, a three-hour round trip bus ride away, was too prolonged for emergency transfusions. Relatives routinely refused to be donors. They developed mysterious illnesses, or denied family affiliation, or simply ran away.

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Wounded Alleluia

By Stephen W. Smith | August 14, 2024

A wounded alleluia is perhaps the universal song every human being sings at some time in their lives. Just this week, dear friends wrote to us that their six-year-old granddaughter was just diagnosed with a life-threatening cancer. My morning alleluias of walking in my garden, watching my flowers grow and listening to the mountain birds sing their praise, got broken.

Recent Announcements:

Pre-Field Orientation

Anyone planning to serve in medium or long-term healthcare missions within the next five years should plan to attend our Pre-Field Orientation for New Healthcare Missionaries. It will be held Nov 4-7 at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville. Register by October 4th if interested in free housing with a member of the church.

Remedy East

Remedy East- Mark your calendars for Remedy East missional healthcare conference at Liberty University April 11-12, 2025. All are welcome!

CAHM Resources

CMDA’s Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions has a Resources tab on our website that is a goldmine for current and future healthcare missionaries. These include links for clinical consultations, a missions bibliography, supply procurement, scholarships, and more. Have a look around this week!

MedRetreat 2025

Alongside presents MedRetreat, 2025! MedRetreat is an 11-day retreat led by fully trained, licensed staff that provides a safe, compassionate community and equips medical missionaries with tools so that they can maintain resilience wherever they serve. We are offering two options: January 5th – 16th, 2025 in Outer Banks, NC and June 1st – 12th, 2025 in Richland, MI.