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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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Seeing the Lord’s Beauty

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | April 9, 2025

“Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:11-13, NLT).

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ConsultBridge: A Clinician to Clinician Digital Platform for Healthcare Missionaries

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 18, 2025

ConsultBridge is a non-profit platform connecting frontline healthcare missionaries with specialist doctors for virtual consultations. By providing timely medical expertise in underserved regions, it empowers missionaries to deliver better patient care while specialists contribute their skills from afar.

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My Time in Ethiopia

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 18, 2025

A physician’s journey from Ethiopia’s famine relief to medical teaching in China reflects resilience, faith and service. Through life-saving care, gospel outreach and mentorship, their story highlights enduring hope and the transformative power of compassionate healthcare and ministry

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Turning Off the Tech: How to Quiet Our Hearts and Tune in to Jesus

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | March 18, 2025

In a tech-saturated world, Dr. Ruth Lindberg explores how constant digital distractions can pull us away from a deeper relationship with Jesus. She offers practical tips for reducing screen time, refocusing our attention and embracing the peace and presence of God.

The Long View: Lessons from Tenwek’s Community Health Program

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 15, 2025

Today, the Tenwek Community Health and Development (TCHD) program little resembles the original program begun 40 years ago. That is a good thing! The goals of the program haven’t changed, but the strategies certainly have evolved.

A Message of Hope and Health

By Christian Medical & Dental Associations® | January 6, 2025

When we decided to attempt a public health campaign for pediatric pedestrian safety, we opted for an emphasis on community and solidarity, believing these cultural values were more likely to anchor the message beyond one cycle of road traffic accidents.

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:

Remedy East & Remedy Chicago

Join us for Remedy East missional healthcare conference at Liberty University April 11-12, 2025. All are welcome! Register today!

Mark your calendars for Remedy Chicago, Jan 10, 2026. Details forthcoming.

Pre-Field Orientation for New Healthcare Missionaries

If you’re seriously considering medium to long term healthcare missions as a career path, please plan to join us for CMDA’s annual Pre-Field Orientation for New Healthcare Missionaries, Nov 3-6 in Louisville, KY. Registration will open this summer.

MedRetreat

MedRetreat is an 11-day counseling and care retreat held June 1-12 in Richland, MI. It provides a safe, compassionate community and equip you with tools so that you can maintain resilience wherever you serve. When you attend MedRetreat, you can find the help and resources you need to continue living out your medical calling with passion and hope. Alongside has additional personal marriage retreats as well which can be accessed on their website

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.

INMED

INMED’s Master’s in International Health program is accepting applications. This 35-credit hour graduate program is designed for healthcare professionals and healthcare profession students to lead comprehensive disease intervention and health promotion efforts in low-resource and cross-cultural communities. Three specialty tracks are available: International Medicine, International Nursing, and International Public Health.

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!