It is the general idea that the short-term missions is one sided. Often creating dependency- teams from USA go to the underdeveloped country to help and bring short term relief and address felt needs in the comminutes of the countries they visit. While that may be true, ‘passing on of skills’ showcases how the trend can be reversed and these very missions can impact providing long term and sustainable projects and help move from ‘relief’ to ‘development’ and self sustaining mode. Caleb Rayapati, will show case how the “Pass on the skills” is making an impact on the ground, a firsthand account of the partnering mission using the Dental Outreach skills in self sustaining method, involved in community development in India impacting through practice of Biblical wholisim.
Health Care ministry in inner city neighborhoods must be incarnational – embracing our communities. Living, working and serving within the context of the community we serve draws us toward God’s love for people and helps us identify with our neighbors. Should one try to move into communities of poverty in order to serve there? How can we encourage those who grew up in our communities to stay to serve God within the context of their lives? This workshop will explore Christ’s healing ministry among those he came to serve. Two of Esperanza Health Center’s leaders will share their experiences and vision for health care ministry as one who relocated into North Philadelphia and one who grew up in North Philadelphia. We need one another to be able to gain a more complete vision for effective Christ-centered health care ministry.
Description: Throughout the world bacterial infections remain a leading cause of illness and death. The introduction of new antibiotics on the market has lagged behind the increasing rate of resistance to many antibiotics to treat infections. This problem becomes magnified in developing areas of the world where resources are not as readily available. Good antimicrobial stewardship involves selecting an appropriate drug and optimizing its dose and duration to cure an infection while minimizing toxicity and reducing the chance to develop antibiotic resistance. This session will look at the limited evidence that supports these ideas and put forth practical suggestions on how antibiotics should be judiciously used in developing countries.
Learning Objectives: The participants on completion of the session should be able to...
1. Identify six common clinical syndromes that may be seen in an ambulatory care environment and that may require antibiotic treatment.
2. Understand the evidence that summarizes the rate of resistance for these common infectious diseases.
3. Select an antibiotic regimen, dose and duration, that will likely be successful and uses the least amount of health resources.
Harold Paul Adolph was born in China to an American medical missionary physician and wife serving
with China Inland Mission. Dr. Adolph received his M.D. in 1958 from the University Of Pennsylvania
College Of Medicine, completed a general surgery residency in the Canal Zone of Panama and then
served one term in the Navy. In 1966 h and his wife Bonnie with their two children moved to Ethiopia as
missionaries with SIM, Int.
He and his family have experienced just about everything you could imagine in their lives of service
in medical missions. Dr. Adolph has authored 5 books with the latest entitled “Today’s Decision –
Tomorrow’s Destiny”. After retiring the Adolphs envisioned building a new hospital in Southern
Ethiopia! Today this hospital is part of the Pan-African College of Christian Surgeons, an outstanding
program for the training of Christian African doctors as surgeons for service in mission hospitals.
Though his career, Dr. Adolph has become an amazing teller of the stories of medical missions. This
session will be informal and will be moderated by Dr. Daniel Tolan, Associate Director of CMDA’s Center
for Medical Missions.
This will be an informal session in which questions may be asked and stories will give the answer.
With nearly 2.2 billion people comprising the Global Church, there are more followers of Jesus in the world today than at any point in history. And yet, 21,000 children die silently every day from preventable and treatable diseases. Across the world, 1.4 billion people live on less than $1.50 daily. More than 260 million Africans cannot read or write. And, perhaps most troubling of all, the vulnerable and marginalized have no voice and no ability to respond to the systems and power structures that keep these realities exactly the way they are.
It is time to wake the giant. It is time for the local Church and her 2.2 billion members to break out of her walls and intentionally push against the tide of disease, famine, illiteracy, extreme poverty and injustice. Across the world and in our own backyards, the local Church is perfectly positioned to bring about lasting change in its local community.
But, community betterment activities can only be transformational when they are rooted in the Mission of Jesus. Lasting change must be gospel-centered and focused on the integrated nature of spiritual, social and material realities. Life in its fullness is rooted in Christ, pursuing His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Transformational development must come from the ground up, with an integrated approach that cultivates local leadership and requires the participation and ownership from the community itself. It means walking with the community, and not doing for them what they can do for themselves once equipped.
We must employ multi-faceted solutions that address the specific root causes of poverty within each community. Our solutions should aim to:
Promote Health and Prevent Disease
Educate the Marginalized
Empower The Poor with Economic Opportunities
Equip The Vulnerable to Break the Cycle
Only then, will transformational development take place, and we will begin to see the Kingdom on earth, as God intended.
