Podcast

Faith-based organizations provide up to 70% or more of healthcare in some countries. They often work in remote locations among neglected people without any access to healthcare. Should faith-based hospitals and health programs partner with local governments and other actors in the public sector? Will collaboration compromise witness and mission? Or can collaboration expand resources, opportunity and deepen impact of Kingdom work? This session will help us examine relationships and discover from a Kingdom perspective about the common ground/common good of working with local governments, Ministry of Health and other national organizations.

As a young nurse, Aileen Coleman left her homeland of Australia in June 1955 for ministry in the Middle East. Sixty years later she remains in active ministry serving the Bedouin people in the Kingdom of Jordan. She will respond to questions reflecting on her years of service as a single women in the Muslim Middle East. She has a burden to see another generation of workers in this field.

This session will give the participants ways to: Identify the needed equipment and supplies for a therapy clinic on a short term missions trip; Identify the obstacles for the clinic to function properly and efficiently; Identify a time table for preparations for a short term trip with a therapy clinic; Identify the ways to prepare therapy supplies and equipment for transport on a short term trip; Identify the most effective approach for treating patients on a short term trip with limited time for each patient visit.

Medicine provides a unique opportunity to reach into the lives of Muslim people. Aileen Coleman will share how she and her colleagues have used the treatment of Tuberculosis and other chronic diseases to share the Gospel in the Muslim context.

Healthcare education and professional certification require core clinical competencies to be demonstrated before privileges are granted. In the midst of the endless cycle of healthcare training, experience, documentation and verification, there are ways to act with compassion. In global health we are called to balance competence through learning procedures, improving abilities, and honing skills, with compassion by doing what we can now to meet the immediate incredible needs before us.