Posts Tagged ‘Missions’
First 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 MoreDianne Glasscoe Watterson, RDH, BS, MBA – Do It All As To The Lord
Gary Beaudreau, DMD – Veteran Dentist Inspires the Next Gen
Malieka Johnson, DDS – A Multi-talented Dentist meeting Special Needs
Free 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 MoreLee Bridgeman, DDS – Many Gifts, One Goal
Katie Musser, DMD – From Resident to Preceptor
Missionary 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 MoreStrange & Winding Road: Personal Testimony
Grant Hewitt shares about his journey of faith and the strange but wonderful path he discovered as he followed the Lord.
Read MoreThe Center for Well-being – The Next Chapter
Medicine: A Moral Enterprise
Dental Advice – Steve Cartin
Placement Service – Allen Vicars
Unpacking Short-Term Dental Mission Trip Involvement – Greg Griffin, DMD
Caring for Medical Missionaries
Orthopedic Surgery Missions
Mike Langford, MD shares about the GHO Orthopedic Surgery teams to Honduras as well as the impact that mission trips have had on his life.
Read MoreBuilding a Clinic in Africa – Dr. Caren Abraham, DDS
Advancing Healthcare Missions
Dr. Doug Lindberg joins Dr. Mike Chupp on today’s CMDA Matters podcast to discuss the new Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions.
Read MoreThomas Robey, MD: PAACS Update
Today’s interview is with Dr. Thomas Robey, the chair of the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons. We hope you will find this interview inspiring as he discusses with Dr. Mike Chupp the history of PAACS, including the critical role CMDA played in its mission and growth to train and disciple African surgeons.
Read MoreMary/Martha/Mission/Me
“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men” (1 Corinthians 12:4-6, NIV 1984).
Read MoreMissions
We are dedicated to both domestic and international missions. Through our various missions, we provide opportunities for healthcare professionals to use their God-given skills to meet the needs of others around the world and share the gospel with them. About 750 of our 17,000 members are serving overseas as long-term missionaries. Each year, more than 1,000 CMDA members serve overseas on one to two-week primary care medical and dental teams to 25 different countries. About 100 healthcare professionals volunteer in medical education exchanges to about 22 countries. Our Continuing Medical and Dental Education Conference has around 700 participants each year.
Read MoreThe Secret
Do you know the secret of making it to the mission field after you know God is calling you? Do you know the secret of faithful service to the Lord once you get there? Do you know the secret of overcoming the many obstacles you will face on your journey from heartbreaking medical cases, to burn out and the difficulty of being away from your family?
Read MoreTell Me Why
The real question that must be answered when it comes to missions is not Where? or How? Or even Who? The real question is Why? If we can answer this question, all other questions will take care of themselves.
Read MoreCritical Care: The Grey Zone, The Heightened Costs and Being a Missionary Physician
For every physician who cares for extremely sick patients, there comes a time when you reach a grey zone. A critically ill patient or ambiguous diagnosis confronts you at 2 a.m., and you are unsure of your ability to save the person from death or permanent disability.
Read MoreYou Don’t Have to Come Back
In his book The Insanity of God, Nik Ripken (pseudonym) shares the story of a Russian pastor sent to a Siberian prison because of his faith. His wife and children followed him there to support him in his suffering, and they too suffered.
Read MoreFirst Things First
You could easily argue that my first six months on the mission field in Kenya were a waste of time and energy. Jody and I, along with our 3-year-old son Jason and 1-year-old daughter Jessica, weren’t living at Tenwek Hospital, where God had called us to serve. Instead, we were stationed 35 miles south of the hospital at Kaboson, a two-hour mud-slogging drive in the rainy season if you didn’t get stuck.
Read MoreI Could Have Been a Better Missionary
I’m an overachiever, probably just like you and most other healthcare professionals. Okay, that is not completely accurate. I confess, I’m an over overachiever. I’ve always wanted to be the best of the best.
Read MorePyromania
I love a real log fire. It is a feast for all my senses. The flames dance before my eyes in yellows, reds, blues and purples. The popping and snapping is a never-tiring music and the smell of wood smoke fills the house. A real fire is so nice that I will arise from my warm cushy comfort to go out into the bitter cold to add logs and then stoke the fire.
Read MoreWhy should I do Short-Term Medical Missions?
Do you ever ask what you should get out of serving? What is the benefit to you? How should you be changed by the act of serving? Here are the heart-felt thoughts of someone struggling with exactly these questions.
Read More10 Questions to Ask Before Sending a Medical Missions Team (Part 2)
There is so much need, and so much help that you can provide by partnering with people in an intentional and thoughtful way. Thanks to all of you that have blessed me and our hospital in the last 4 years by doing just that, and for those of you who will come to places just like ours.
Read More10 Questions to Ask Before Sending a Medical Missions Team (Part 1)
I’ve read a few articles lately about how short-term teams are negatively impacting children in orphanages, how shoddy building projects mock underemployed communities, how quick-fixes can cause long term damage.
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