Posts Tagged ‘Medical Missions’
Finishing Well: Finding Purpose in Retirement Beyond Healthcare
In this episode of CMDA Matters, we share a powerful CMDA livestream featuring Pastor Bert Jones, CMDA’s VP of Missions & Member Care, and Dr. Steve Sartori, founder of CMDA’s Coaching Ministry. Together, they explore what it means to finish well, stay intentional, and embrace God’s calling in this new stage of life, retirement.
Read MoreHealing Hearts and Bones in the Peruvian Amazon: Dr. Peter Cole of Scalpel At The Cross
In this episode of CMDA Matters, we welcome Dr. Peter Cole, a distinguished orthopedic surgeon, educator at the University of Minnesota, and founder of Scalpel At The Cross—a medical mission transforming lives in Pucallpa, Peru. Dr. Cole built Scalpel At The Cross alongside his wife Nancy in 2004, dedicating their skills and faith to providing life-changing musculoskeletal care in the Peruvian Amazon.
Read MoreConsultBridge: A Clinician to Clinician Digital Platform for Healthcare Missionaries
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.
Read MoreMy Time in Ethiopia
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
Read MoreTurning Off the Tech: How to Quiet Our Hearts and Tune in to Jesus
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.
Read MoreStanding for Life and for Women
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Catherine Wheeler, a board-certified OB/Gyn who was practicing abortions until God changed her heart, shares how God is now using her to speak truth in the public square and advocate for life.
Read MoreRecognizing the Red Flags of Human Trafficking
On this week’s episode, Dr. Sharmayne Brooks talks about CMDA’s Commission on Human Trafficking and how healthcare professionals can protect their vulnerable patients who are being held in modern-day slavery.
Read MoreWake up, O House of Medicine! Part 2
On this week’s episode, Dr. Michael Laidlaw shares the second part of his conversation about the courageous and critical role we have as healthcare professionals to protect children who are being impacted by the rise of gender issues in our culture and in healthcare.
Read MoreWake Up, O House of Medicine! Part 1
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Michael Laidlaw talks about his involvement as an expert witness for sensible legislation to stop the use of harmful hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries provided to minors for the purpose of gender transition.
Read MoreThe Long View: Lessons from Tenwek’s Community Health Program
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.
Read MoreAdam and Eve After the Pill
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute, talks about several of her influential books, including Adam and Eve After the Pill.
Read MoreA Message of Hope and Health
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.
Read MoreTo Change All Worlds
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Carl Trueman discusses his new book To Change All Worlds and how Christians can explore and respond to the topic of critical theory.
Read MoreThe Impact of CMDA in 2024
On this week’s CMDA Matters episode, Dr. Mike Chupp, Dr. George Gonzalez and George Courtney spend time reflecting back on God’s amazing work through CMDA in 2024.
Read MoreGod, Teach Me About Mercy
On this week’s Christmas episode of CMDA Matters, join Dr. Mike Chupp for a devotional as he shares his experiences on a Global Health Outreach trip to Guatemala.
Read MoreSaline Process Witness Training
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Mark Topazian and Dr. Gábor Győri talk about the new opportunities to participate in the Saline Process Witness Training.
Read MoreA Call for Servant Leaders
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. George Stubblefield and Larry Gilmore from Jessup University talk about a new faith-based master of healthcare administration program they’re developing in southern California.
Read MoreThankfulness in the Storm
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Ken Isaacs from Samaritan’s Purse is our guest for a special Thanksgiving episode thanking the Lord for His providence and protection in the midst of the destruction from Hurricane Helene.
Read MoreContraception and the Church
On this week’s episode Dr. Dennis Sullivan shares about an article he recently wrote entitled “Contraception and the Church: Making Sense of the Debate and Some Pastoral Advice.”
Read MoreFull-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life
Well-known financial advisor and author David Bahnsen talks about his new book, Full-Time: Working and the Meaning of Life.
Read MoreWilling to Do Whatever It Takes
Dr. Francis Nuthalapaty discusses how CMDA has impacted his career as he follows Christ’s leading in healthcare.
Read MoreIntroducing ConsultBridge
Dr. Jeff Lee and Dr. Hau Liu discuss the new ConsultBridge platform, a telehealth platform to support healthcare professionals who are serving overseas.
Read MoreMoral Diversity in Healthcare Training
On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Ben Frush discusses the importance of moral diversity in healthcare training.
Read MoreFaithfully Serving and Impacting Cuba
Dr. Robert Lerer, a pediatric physician, discusses his work with CMDA’s Medical Education International in Cuba, the country he once fled as a teenager.
Read MoreCameo of Courage featuring Vanessa Sivadge
Dr. Mike Chupp talks with pediatric nurse Vanessa Sivadge to share how she courageously stepped out in faith to protect vulnerable children in Texas.
Read MoreUntidy Suffering
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.
Read MoreEmbracing Suffering
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.
Read MoreThe Dunamis Effect on Addiction
Dr. Don Middleton, one of the leaders of CMDA’s Addiction Medicine Section, shares his own personal journey through addiction and how God redeemed his life and his career after he surrendered to Christ.
Read MoreFlourishing through the Great Commission
Dr. Paul Hudson talks about his new book entitled Healthcare and the Mission of God: Finding Joy in the Crucible.
Read MoreJoyfully Walking By Faith
Dr. Julie Rosá, a family medicine physician, is the new Association Director of Medical Education International, a short-term teaching missions ministry within CMDA.
Read MoreMental Health and the Church
Dr. Stephen Grcevich, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, talks about mental health and the church, as well as how mental health relates to gender and identity.
Read MoreThe Value of Community to Servants of Christ
Drs. Gloria and Paul Halverson talk about how impactful CMDA has been in their lives as Christians in healthcare.
Read More100% Committed to the King
Rev. Will Graham shares an inspiring message about Hushai from the Old Testament in 2 Samuel and his pure and total obedience to God’s call.
Read MoreWalking in His Footsteps
Ambassador Morse Tan shares about his journey to walk in Christ’s footsteps through his work to advance justice and protect vulnerable people in our world.
Read More2024 Missionaries of the Year
Dr. Brad and Naomi Quist, who are career healthcare missionaries, were recognized as CMDA’s 2024 Missionaries of the Year.
Read MoreCalling and Discernment
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.
Read MoreUsing Teeth Bleaching for God’s Glory
Dr. Van B. Haywood, recipient of CMDA’s 2024 Educator of the Year Award, discusses using dentistry to bring the hope and healing of Christ to the world.
Read MoreScholarship | Wayne & Vivian Day Mission’s Scholarship
The Wayne & Vivian Day Scholarship is available to students and trainees participating in cross -cultural, short-term healthcare missions opportunities including GHO trips.
Read MoreCameo of Courage featuring Dr. Thomas Eppes
Dr. Mark Crouch talks about serving as a missionary physician at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital in Papua New Guinea for the last decade.
Read MoreA Model of Obedient and Sustained Service
Dr. Mark Crouch talks about serving as a missionary physician at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital in Papua New Guinea for the last decade.
Read MoreBeing Salt and Light in Today’s World
Dr. Walt Larimore talks about the legacy behind the Faith Prescriptions video series and how it can help healthcare professionals share their faith in practice.
Read MoreA Conversation with CMDA’s VP of Missions
Rev. Bert Jones shares about his role as Vice President of Missions and Member Care at CMDA.
Read MoreCelebrating This Year’s Victories
Chris Schandevel from Alliance Defending Freedom shares news of the big wins we’ve accomplished this year to help protect the conscience freedoms of CMDA members.
Read MoreNavigating and Understanding Faithfulness in a New Babylon
David Kinnaman, CEO of Barna Group, talks about Barna’s extensive research they are doing for churches and non-profit organizations.
Read MoreDental Missions in GHO
Dr. Bill Griffin shares about the exciting opportunities for dentists to use their skills on GHO mission trips.
Read MoreThreats, Trends and Opportunities in Advocacy
Nicole Hayes and Anna Pilato from CMDA’s Advocacy department to talk about the latest threats, trends and opportunities in Advocacy.
Read MoreThe Perils of PRIDE
Dr. Steven Willing talks about his new book called Superbia, which focuses on insights into the sin and perils of pride.
Read MoreLong-COVID Research
Infectious disease expert Dr. Sam Raad talks about his ongoing research with cancer patients who have experienced long-COVID symptoms.
Read MoreCameo of Courage with Dr. Kristin Collier
Dr. Kristin Collier shares her story of resilience and courage when her convictions about the dignity of human life were put to the test.
Read MoreTo Pakistan With Love
Drs. John and Angela Condie, CMDA’s 2023 Missionaries of the Year, share about their 30+ years of service as cross-cultural missionaries in Pakistan.
Read MoreA Heart for Africa
Hannah Jo is a dental hygienist practicing in New York. She shares about the opportunity to serve with GHO on her first medical and dental mission trip last year.
Read MoreScholarship | MAP International Health Fellowship
CMDA Scholarship applicants who are planning a healthcare missions elective that provides credit through their school or training program and is at least four weeks in duration will also be eligible to receive the CMDA-MAP International Global Health Mission Scholar Award. This will provide up to $3,000 in addition to the CMDA Scholarship. CMDA scholarship applicants who also qualify for consideration for the MAP award will be notified after their application is reviewed.
Read MoreReflecting Back on 2022
George Courtney, CMDA’s Vice President of Stewardship and Legacy Giving, joins Dr. Mike Chupp to discuss how God has been at work through CMDA during 2022, while also looking ahead to opportunities for ministry in 2023.
Read MoreChristmas on the Mission Field
Several missionary members of CMDA to share their Christmas and holiday memories from the mission field.
Read MoreThe Gift of Live Organ Donation
Dr. Stuart Knechtle and Margaret Frothingham discuss the gift of live organ donation.
Read MoreThe Next Generation in Healthcare
Dr. Katie Howe and Dr. Jake Morris discuss their involvement in CMDA throughout their training and their next steps to become long-term healthcare missionaries.
Read MoreCMDA in Nigeria
Dr. Kayode Iyun, President of CMDA Nigeria, talks about how Christian healthcare professionals are making a difference across the continent of Africa.
Read MoreThe Hidden Global Pandemic
Dr. Susan Hillis discusses the hidden global pandemic we are now facing—child orphanhood on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreLooking at Monkeypox
Dr. Issam “Sam” Raad, chair of the University of Texas MD Anderson’s Department of Infectious Diseases, shares about the Monkeypox epidemic on this episode of CMDA Matters.
Read MoreUkraine Update – Dental Outreach
Listen to a special interview with Dr. John Pfefferle and Dr. Phil Aday about their recent mission trip to the Ukraine. Plus, Dr. Mike Chupp sits down with Dr. Peter Saunders to talk about the ongoing war relief efforts in the country on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreHealthcare Outreach to the Middle East
Dr. Sam Raad talks about Healthcare Outreach to the Middle East, a ministry with more than 20 clinics in 14 Arab countries on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreRipple Effects in Africa
Three dedicated cardiac surgeons from three different countries who now work at the busiest heart surgery program in the nation of Kenya at Tenwek Hospital are interviewed on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreGod Sightings
Dr. Trish Burgess talks about her new book God Sightings, a collection of stories of the best God sightings from GHO mission trips around the world on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreStreamlining GHO
Trish Burgess, MD introduces Alicia Trivett, the new GHO Program Coordinator and discusses how they are working to streamline the ways teams are sent to minister in the name of Jesus.
Read MoreCapstone Panel Discussion
3 CMDA members who heard and responded to God’s call to get involved in missions during the later parts of their careers join Dr. Mike Chupp on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast.
Read MoreFirst Fruits and Capstone
The healthcare mission field stands at an important crossroads. Around the world, opportunities abound for fruitful ministry through healthcare missions. Healthcare professionals are desperately needed, and they can serve in places non-medical missionaries can’t serve. All too often, needs and opportunities go unmet. The doors will not remain open forever. As health systems around the world modernize, healthcare missions and missionaries become less necessary in the eyes of the host community, and the missionary’s witness and scope of influence are curtailed significantly.
Read MoreBeing on Mission in Your Practice
Dr. Youseff Beshai, a family practice physician from California joins Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Jeff Barrows on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast. Dr. Beshai shares his experiences about how to stay on mission in healthcare and serve the underserved through domestic missions in the United States.
Read MoreScholarship | Good Samaritan Scholarship
To introduce diverse health care students to Christian medical missions allowing them to not only become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries, but also to obtain the skills to participate, in training and mentoring the next generation of missionaries in the name of Jesus.
Read MoreScholarship | Hood Medical Mission Scholarship
The Tony Hood, MD and Claudia Hood Medical Mission Scholarship seeks to inspire fourth year medical students to experience healthcare missions throughout the world. By doing so, they are hopeful recipients will be inspired to continue a lifetime of involvement in long- or short-term medical missions.
Read MoreFollowing the Call into Cross-cultural Missions
Dr. Mike Chupp is joined on this week’s CMDA Matters episode by Dr. David Stevens and Dr. Greg Neal to discuss the Christian Healthcare Executive Collaborative, a growing specialty section of CMDA that connects healthcare leaders with opportunities to connect with one another, as well as to serve the kingdom of God through cross-cultural missions.
Read MoreGlobal Missions Health Conference
Will Rogers joins Dr. Mike Chupp and Dr. Doug Lindberg on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast to discuss the upcoming Global Missions Health Conference and the need for healthcare workers on the mission field.
Read MoreServing in the Midst of COVID
Trish Burgess, MD discusses with various team leaders the changes involved with GHO Teams going out to serve during the COVID pandemic.
Read MoreFree Speech: What are your rights?
Robert P. George joins Dr. Mike Chupp on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast to discuss the future of right of conscience and free speech on college campuses.
Read MoreFree Speech: What are your rights? More Today edition
Robert P. George joins Dr. Mike Chupp on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast to continue the discussion of the future of right of conscience and free speech on college campuses.
Read MoreCMDA 2021 Servant of Christ
Dr. Andrew Sanders joins Dr. Mike Chupp on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast to discuss his Servant of Christ award and ministry.
Read MoreMissionary of the Year 2021
Dr. Jim Radcliffe joins Dr. Mike Chupp on this week’s CMDA Matters podcast to discuss his life of service in Papua New Guinea and being named 2021 Missionary of the Year during the CMDA National Convention.
Read MoreScholarship | Dale Willis Memorial GHO Scholarship
To assist selected dentists in participating in their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Read MoreScholarship | Domestic Short Term Mission Scholarship
This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable students and residents to participate in mission rotations here in the United States, working with marginalized, underserved, and vulnerable populations in a Christian healthcare setting.
Read MoreScholarship | Minority Short Term Mission Scholarship
This scholarship seeks to encourage and enable non-white students and trainees to participate in mission rotations outside the United States.
Read MoreBridging the Language Barrier
Thomas Tet shares what it is like to work as a translator on a GHO Mission trip and the impact the trips have for the local people, both medically and spiritually.
Read MoreAfter Ebola: Confronting the Trauma
In the closing months of 1989, a brutal civil war erupted in Liberia and soon engulfed the small West African country. At the time, T. Abraham Browne was in high school, and the senseless killings forced him and his siblings to flee for their lives to escape the bloodshed. They reached a refugee camp where Abraham would spend the next 10 years.
Read MoreScholarship | Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation Medical Students & Resident Program
Do you have a passion for medicine and a calling to help those in need? Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation offers scholarships to qualified medical students and residents who have a strong interest in gaining valuable clinical experience while serving on an international or domestic Christian medical mission trip.
Read MoreScholarship | Project Hope Northwest Trip Grant
This fund is for the support of individuals who are exploring a commitment to the medical mission field or those already medical missionaries. Typical grantees include premedical or predental students who have made a commitment to the healing professions, medical or dental students who have a committed Christian faith or physicians in residency who are exploring the possibility of a short term or long term commitment to mission work.
Read MoreScholarship | Project MedSend Grant
MedSend awards grants to repay student loans owed by healthcare professionals while they serve as healthcare missionaries in medically underserved areas of the world. Three times each year, the MedSend board reviews completed applications for healthcare professionals headed for career missionary service.
Read MoreScholarship | GHO Dermatology/Nursing Medical Missions
Assisting selected healthcare students in participating in their first Global Health Outreach short-term medical missions experience, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Read MoreScholarship | WPDC Mission Trips
WPDC women are invited to go on mission trips which offer participants an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of refugees, orphans and human trafficking victims around the world.
Read MoreScholarship | FCPA Mission Matching Grant
The Fellowship of Christian Physician Assistants seeks to encourage the sending forth of laborers Matthew 9:37-38 into the fields which are white with harvest. This fund was established to offer financial and prayer support to FCPA members who are called by the Lord to medical mission work around His world.
Read MoreScholarship | Naomi Kim Medical Missions
The Naomi Kim Scholarship assists selected healthcare students in participating in their first Global Health Outreach trip, enabling them to become familiar with the cultural, social, spiritual, medical and dental problems in developing countries while allowing them to serve the underserved.
Read MoreScholarship | Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Providing assistance to students who are going on mission both domestically and internationally to serve the healthcare needs of unserved or underserved people of the world with the intent to share the love of Christ.
Read MoreScholarship | Tami Fisk Mission Travel Grant
Grants for travel expenses of medically-trained individuals exploring and/or beginning medical service in East Asia with preference to those working with MSI Professional Services or OMF International.
Read MoreScholarship | Johnson Short-Term Mission
Encouraging MD/DO residents and fellows to serve the underserved cross-culturally and in doing so to seek the Lord’s will for their lifetime involvement in medical missions.
Read MoreScholarship | James P. Owen Mission
James P. Owen had a keen interest in missionary medicine. He died in 1981 while a senior medical student at Southwestern Medical School. The James P. Owen Memorial Endowment Fund was established by his wife in loving memory of her husband. Medical students at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas are eligible to apply.
Read MoreScholarship | Westra Short Term Missions
The James S. Westra Memorial Fund was established in 1981. It provides scholarships for pre-health undergraduate students, healthcare students (including nursing and allied health), trainees, and young professionals to serve in healthcare missions.
Read MoreMission Scholarships
Christian Medical & Dental Associations® provides various mission scholarships for student and resident members wishing to spend time overseas as a rotation elective.
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