Winter Missions Breakfast
Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 29th, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. Focus On Missions We’re going to have a great panel of local speakers, including Christine Borghi-Cavallaro, Joel Thompson, Nick Venci Jr., Jeff Harp, and Jim Sutton who will be talking about their missions experiences and associated opportunities in Nicaragua, Haiti, and right here in Rochester, so don’t miss this one! Please mark your calendars and...
read moreMerry Christmas!
Greetings from the Morehouses! We deeply appreciate all your support and look forward to serving together with you in the coming year. Click here to read our holiday...
read moreGlobal Missions Conference
Annual Global Missions Health Conference This is a reminder to make sure you and your fellowship know about this amazing opportunity! Online registration—$65—closes November 7, on-site registration is $75; register for housing here. There’s no deadline listed for that but get your reservations in ASAP as there may be no more space at this late date. If this is the first you’ve heard of this, my apologies, I sent it out to all members last month. If you are not a CMDA student member (a free gift), please join now! Each fall the Global...
read moreFall Physician Breakfast
The MCCF Fall Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, September 18, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. Walking alongside:Teaching Medicine in the Congo Dr. Mark Shelly is an Infectious Disease specialist practicing at Highland Hospital who will be sharing from his personal experiences teaching medicine as a mission to the Congo. Feel free to invite any friends or colleagues who might be interested, too! Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note the location (click here for...
read moreSpring Physician Breakfast
The MCCF Spring Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, May 1, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. Topic: Health Care Reform and You We’ve invited Dr. William Dolan from the Monroe County Medical Society to bring us a factual presentation about the provisions of the Health Care Reform legislation that recently passed in Washington and respond to any questions you may have. Dr. Dolan has been a Member of the AMA Board of Trustees since June 2007 and is very acquainted with the topic. Feel free to invite any...
read moreJohn Seaman Haiti Report
My apologies that the news feeds from Haiti may not have made it to you all. Communications were very difficult while there, and I think my forwarding mechanism to get info to you may have failed. That being said, we really appreciate your prayers and support during the time in Haiti. Thanks to your gifts and prayers our 2 teams to Haiti were able to transport, use and distribute over ½ ton of medicines and other medical supplies. We saw hundreds of patients in 2 different locations: Carrefour, to the West of Port-au-Prince and at the...
read moreDrs. Ness – Roca Blanca
Our Internet connection has been very spotty this year, and as we speak I am sitting in an Internet cafe in a nearby town. By preparing everything ahead of time, I was able to be fairly efficient in posting our latest blog. The site again is www.nessblog.com/roca. We hope you enjoy it and invite your comments and questions, either on the blog site, or to our e-mail address. As mentioned the next week will be dental teaching for the students, while we will be doing clinic and trying to take in the classes when we can. We think of all of...
read moreDr. Paul Cross – Haiti
I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be traveling to Haiti tomorrow morning with a medical team (3 surgeons, 2 anesthesiologists, and 1 nurse). This was pretty last minute, and the details are still coming in. We will be flying into the Dominican Republic and then to Leogane (epicenter of the quake) by prop plane. There are very few medical supplies and fewer anesthesia supplies. This is not a Christian mission team, so please pray that God’s love would apparent in me, and my team will see that. Other prayer requests:...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Update
Tuesday evening after returning form the IDP camp, I heard from our hospital/clinic team that they had seen a baby that was profoundly dehydrated and malnourished to the point that his skin was sloughing off. They had spent hours resuscitating him and when our team had to leave they hoped he would survive the night, that evening we attempted to make contact with a pediatric hospital or the USS Comfort but all of our efforts failed as we could not get through to anybody. It had occurred to me that a dear friend of mine had just arrived in the...
read moreJeff Leathersich – Update
Days before we departed to Haiti I saw a national news report of a medical team that flew down just after the earthquake, while they originally intended to stay longer they were melting down emotionally after 5 days. One of them was sobbing while being interviewed she said they could not take it anymore, the need was too great, the devastation was too widespread and the supplies were too few. I did not judge them for leaving but said to myself that they must not have been prepared physically or emotionally. Having traveled to Africa, Indian,...
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