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Is it possible to equip indigenous believers to meet the needs of their own people so that the work continues when the short term team returns home? Jaime will share stories from the mission field regarding training and equipping indigenous Christ-followers with especially designed tools so that they can meet the felt needs of their own people, through which they develop relationships and have the opportunity to both demonstrate and share the love of Christ in a tangible way.

We spend so much time, money, and resources on short-term missions trips that we often forget about the mission field at home. How can we live intentionally for 52 weeks each year in the mission field God has placed us in?

What could small groups of people from the USA do in week-long trips to help invigorate, inform, and empower the local people for months, years, and even generations? This workshop will present some field examples of this happening, clarify some key factors for this style of Short-Term Missions (STM) to be successful, and generate your input on how to measure a truly successful STM trip. Come prepared to participate, and leave motivated to change.

Cultural contextualization and illiteracy can be a challenge in creating educational materials that reach our priority populations. This session will provide an example of how media can be applied in indigenous and oral settings to help communities educate themselves and others regarding health issues. A program evaluation report provides tremendous evidence of the effectiveness of this approach. Our case study of a video HIV education project in a rural Maasai setting, implemented by a small Maasai organization , has increased self-efficacy resulting in behavior change throughout the program area. Come to this session to be encouraged and to consider how media learning might be integrated into your health education efforts to help communities help themselves!

Reaching out to the tribal people of Ecuador

Second Career Missionaries

Called to the mission field.

The life and testimony of Dr. Paul Brand.

A look at the life of Dr. Paul Brand, a pioneer in developing tendon transfer techniques for use in the hands of those with leprosy.

A Glimpse of Africa through the eyes of Dr. David Stevens and his mentor, Dr. Ernie Steury

Medical education in missions is becoming an increasingly important vehicle not only for improving health care (building capacity) in a given country but also for evangelizing the lost and discipling believing health care providers. This is especially true in creative access countries where traditional approaches to providing health care and Christian witness through medical missions may not be accepted or allowed. This session will look at the potential benefits of including medical education in a medical mission vision, both for short-term trips and long-term calls. Examples will be taken from creative access countries in the 10-40 window and elsewhere.

This session will focus on the treatment of malaria both outside and within the United States. Time will also be spent on symptom control and the potential for a malaria vaccine.