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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.

Read Your Call Articles:

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

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.

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.

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:

Remedy West & Remedy Chicago

Mark your calendars for Remedy Chicago, Jan 10, 2026. Details and registration information will be forthcoming

Breathe

Breathe is a retreat intentionally created for the renewal and encouragement of those who are in need of a break from full-time global work.  The June 18-28, 2025 retreat in Switzerland is ten nights for individuals, couples and families; children and teens participate in programs designed to meet the unique needs of TCKs. ***There is currently a wait list for the June program.

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!

Check out our “Upcoming Mission Conference” document and plan to attend at least one missions conference in the coming year.