What is God's perspective on the role of health and healing in our world today? Does the Bible give us direction as medical missionaries? This break out session will give you a Biblical framework for understanding how your personal call to medical missions integrates with God's overarching promise to bring healing to the nations.
The objectives of the breakout session are
1. To understand the short and longterm educational opportunites available in developing countries
2. To better understand how one can develop skills to prepare to teach in developing countries
3. Identify sending agencies that support training in developing countries
With so many changes in the world – could God be opening new avenues for medical missions in general and dental in particular to take a leading role in reaching the lost? Some considerations for dental missions and opportunities for increasing our impact.
While technical advances are often seen to define progress in the diagnosis and treatment of illness, a solely mechanistic approach fails to deal with the basic requirement of patients’ need to be cared for as people - in body, mind and spirit. This seminar looks at the biblical basis for whole-person medicine as well as its practical application in healthcare provision and teaching.
