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Every day healthcare workers face stressful and emotionally challenging situations at work. Numerous deaths, making difficult choices due to resource constraints, overstretched days etc also affect them mentally and emotionally. Many healthcare have these issues left unresolved. How then can we care for our caregivers as they provide care to their patients and their relatives? Care for a caregiver is such a program that seeks to address this issue - and this breakout is a revised taster of the well accepted program at the GHMC 2022.

This is an awareness and taster session that will be both didactic and interactive with role play and group discussions.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Mathew George Mulavelil

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/care-for-the-caregiver-providing-the-paradigm-of-continuing-care

Getting to the mission field is a complex process. The decisions required are truly life changing. Once on the field, the attrition rate is high. The adjustments for many are enormous. Getting to the field and staying on the field are strengthened immensely by a healthy sending church. However, a sending church can't simply be found in the final months before departure. Discover how to make finding a local church a part of missionary preparation that is both enjoyable and extremely helpful. You don't have to go it alone, before you leave or once you arrive!

The Biblical model for sending missionaries is through the local church. See Acts 13 concerning the church at Antioch. For a variety of reasons many with long term missions interest don't build a relationship with a sending church. This can lead to lack of prayer support, financial support and counsel when the missionary is on the field.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Doug Christgau

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/why-missionaries-need-a-sending-church

God's call to his people are both general and specific. They are also tailored by God for each person, and for different seasons of life. Because God's specific calls to serve Him are tailored and individualized, they are never the same. Over time, God's specific calls to an individual can change. All of this can make the process of discerning God's call baffling a times! The key to understanding and obeying both God's general calls and his specific calls is the quality of our relationship with God, especially in the areas of faith and trust, hope, and love.

https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/the-baffling-call-of-god

There are principles and strategies for creating and growing Kingdom-driven ministries that glorify God by serving the needy and engaging the international unreached. This session will explore the power of incarnational living, the centrality of the church, the link between serving the needy at home and overseas, and the importance of investing in younger disciples.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Rick Donlon, MD

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/starting-a-ministry-that-serves-the-poor-plants-churches-and-sends-international-missionaries

Medical education has a potentially powerful role in global health. This breakout will explore some ways that medical education can not only support patient care but also augment research capacity building to better care for critically ill patients in resource-limited countries.

Session recorded on Saturday, November 11th during Session Block #6 at 8:00 AM EST ; speaker: Burton Lee

Session webpage: https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2023/sessions/supporting-global-critical-care-in-resource-limited-countries-through-medical-education