Resources

Food As Medicine

Nutrition as Medicine: The Role of Food as therapy for chronic disease prevention and management

Esophageal Cancer in Africa: Research Progress by Missionaries

What's It Going to Take?

What Happens When the Global Church Goes Together

We've seen the church thrive around the world through missionary efforts. How do we leverage the impact...

Point of Care Ultrasound: Next Best Thing to Sliced Bread...Almost

Diagnostic dilemma poses one of the challenges in the mission field due to lack of ideal or reliable tools....

Clinical Ethics

This lecture first explores ethics from the perspective of normal human nature. Then the impact of this hum...

How Short Term Missions Partner with Local Churches for Long Term Impact

My family and I are Kenyan cross-cultural workers based in Kenya. We served for three and half years in Gha...

Vaccines

Vaccines aren't perfect, but they prevent a lot of disease and save a lot of lives. In this session, we...

Crash Course in Cyber Security

Any device capable of being connected to cyberspace can be subject to surveillance, hacked, and used monito...

Understanding Implicit and Explicit Bias

We see the world through constructed patterns acquired through ordinary experiences in our culture. These e...

Pathways to Healthcare Missions

The pathway to healthcare missions is not a linear pathway and there is not one right way. In this plenary ...

Best Nursing Practices for Faith Integration

The purpose of this session is to explore ways to integrate the Lord’s call to love and humbly serve ...

Past, Present, and Future of Medical Missions

In view of a changing world context, what is the future of medical missions? Does the traditional mission h...

End of Life Discussions: Bringing Hope Where People Feel Hopeless

Do you ever wonder how to bring up end of life discussions without creating fear or loss of hope? What does...

Forming a Team for Long Term Healthcare Missions that Plants Reproducing Churches

Why are you heading overseas as a healthcare missionary? What's your ultimate long-term goal? Is your d...

Refugee Care in the US

Serving the Sojourner in America's Most Diverse Square Mile

Tips for Raising Missionary Kids

Parenting is challenging in any situation, but raising children while living overseas and serving cross-cul...

Resilience, Endurance, and the Christian Medical Worker

Characteristics of altruistic individuals, such as passion, dedication, and empathy, can under certain circ...

Theology of Missions

Theology is, simply put, our talk about God in Christ and his actions as shown to us in the Bible. Missions...

Treating pediatric movement disabilities for the Non-Physical Therapist

This session is intended to help non-therapists or medical professionals provide therapeutic intervention f...