Podcast

The Kingdom Professional Model is a reflective tool that can be used to integrate faith, learning, and service. Come find out lessons learned using this model in cross-cultural settings. Listen to the stories of those who have experienced challenges, and new understanding of old lessons while serving. Healthcare professionals can glimpse the practical ways to show the love of Jesus through everyday practice by using this model.

Knowledge of good health practices often does not change health behaviors. This session will share proven ways to motivate people to change their health behaviors using non-financial incentives as demonstrated in a community health program that has changed the health of 1.2 million people. These techniques are applicable in both the USA and abroad.

To become the person God wants you to be and to accomplish what God wants you to do, you must take risks. Risk is the fertilizer that grows your faith and bears spiritual fruit for God’s Kingdom. Are you willing to risk it?”

The Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) had humble beginnings, but over the last three decades, it's grown into one of the most influential forces in international and domestic healthcare missions. Hundreds of Christian healthcare workers around the world began or altered their ministry careers by attending the conference. We'll review the most influential speakers and concepts that made the GMHC a groundbreaking movement. We'll also look forward to the next thirty years of Christian healthcare missions.

Fruitful domestic and international medical missions overlap in multiple ways. Both require cross-cultural skills, a willingness to work with limited resources, courage in the face of potentially dangerous situations, and possible disapproval from friends and family. Each is excellent preparation for the other. Many international workers spend furlough time working in American Christian health centers--and vice-versa.