“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.
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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