“It’s really unique . . . to be able to combine health care with missionary work,” Lucy said, adding that medical missions gives her “a reason to be in countries that are harder to get to, but also as a way for me to love, meet needs and share truth.”
Medical missionaries uniquely blend the meeting of physical and spiritual needs. Your partnership with Preach and Heal through Medicine will enable IMB medical missionaries to carry out their specialized ministry while training local healthcare workers to be missionaries through medicine. Your gift will provide continuing education and annual licensure renewal for field workers and underwrite the cost of conferences and mobilization events. You will also assist strategic healthcare projects by purchasing equipment needed at a hospital or clinic and translating medical missions materials used at events and trainings.
Your generosity to Preach and Heal through Medicine will fund medical missions across the world. You will help IMB medical missionaries and local medical personnel save lives temporally and enable them to introduce patients to Christ for eternal salvation. Pediatrician Sarah Lull, a former medical missionary to East Africa, asserts, “Christ went to heal the sick and the lame and the poor, so he could heal their inner need, which was spiritual. Medicine is such a great avenue to share the gospel.” Prayerfully consider how God would have you give today to this global healthcare and gospel initiative.
New telemedicine kits enable needed medical access. Your gifts are providing telemedicine kits for use around the world. With these kits, medical personnel—including medical students, nurses, and residents—can put a stethoscope to a chest in the Middle East, an otoscope into an ear in Sub-Saharian Africa, perform a brain scan in South Asia, or remotely monitor a heart in Central Asia, and a doctor in Ohio can listen in real-time.
Because of your generosity, Dr. Geoff Little* and others like him use their skills to multiply medical missions globally. Telemedicine opens doors in closed countries where American, long-term workers cannot freely enter and equips medical assistants to provide more specialized care. More than 20 people have become brothers and sisters in Christ from a witness through telemedicine. Pray for additional US doctors to serve as healthcare consultants, meeting global medical needs.
Mobile medicine multiplied in Ukraine. In areas of Ukraine with limited medical care resources, your partnership enables many to find help and healing. A local Christian doctor uses the telemedicine kits you provide to see many more patients and offer a higher level of care than he could manage without them. Using the internet, U.S.-based healthcare consultants assist this doctor and his assistants in providing care. Pray for this Ukrainian doctor as he remains in his country, helping his countryman meet basic medical needs.
Telemedicine transformed a village. Amahle* lives deep in a remote village in Western Africa. Cut off from most medical care by distance and civil unrest, the 11-year-old suffered multiple seizures each day. Her father, the local witch doctor, tried and failed to cure her. Finally, the family chained Amahle to a tree in their compound for her own safety. In desperation, her family asked local Christians to pray for her healing. As the church began to pray, they connected with IMB personnel several hours away and asked for help.
Because of your generosity, the IMB personnel had a telemedicine kit. They invited Amahle to come to their city for an evaluation. A healthcare consultant in the U.S. worked with local medical staff to diagnose and develop a care plan for her. The results were remarkable! Amahle’s hours of being chained to a tree ended, and her new life began. Amahle’s transformation was so stark that she and her mother accepted Christ. Like the blind man healed by Jesus (John 9), others in the village soon saw the changes and followed Christ as well. A new church has formed in a nearby village as more trust in Jesus as their Savior. Now, Amahle sings in the choir and participates in other activities young girls do. Pray for Amahle’s father to follow his daughter in trusting Christ.
Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.
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Thank you so much for your generous support of the work of IMB teams engaged in healthcare ministries and those globally receiving love through medical care. Your partnership enables IMB medical missionaries and teams involved in healthcare work to carry out their specialized ministry while training local healthcare workers to be missionaries through medicine.
Asian Pacific Rim. Some local village men meet on Friday nights to study God’s Word, pray together, and grow as followers of Jesus. One man suggested having a free health screening in front of his house for everyone in the village. A local church—where the men were baptized just two years ago—offered to host the free screening on their anniversary and partnered with our team to that end.
On a hot Sunday morning, our team, one of the group’s facilitators and his wife, both nurses, set up a tent in front of the house where the men meet weekly. These men wanted their neighbors to know they are Christ-followers, and the free health screening was a way to demonstrate God’s love.
More than a hundred residents received invitations to get blood sugar and blood pressure checks and then see a doctor for a brief consultation before receiving medicine and an offer of prayer in Jesus’ name. Ninety-three people attended. Praise God! Those who did not participate were discouraged by local Islamic leaders from attending the Christian event.
Thank you for your generosity which enabled these men to demonstrate Christ to their community. The event was also an opportunity to promote our nearby clinic, establish new relationships, and deepen existing ones in the faith. This church plant is the only Christian witness in their village.
Europe. We are reaching out to our community through a fitness and wellness center. We held our soft opening this past week with a fabulous turnout. Now we have open-gym time blocks and classes each weekday. So far this week, we have had 22 people come work out, and a few have stopped by to check out the facility. Word is getting out! This summer, we will hold several special events, including a coaches’ training and certification class that will train coaches here and other Christian workers across Europe.
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