2023 Missions Breakfast report
Winter Missions Breakfast We had a wonderful time yesterday in personal fellowship at our annual Missions Breakfast hosted this year at Wallace Hall in Brighton Presbyterian Church after a 2-year COVID lapse into remote Zoom meetings. Over 34 enthusiastic attendees, including students, practicing providers, and spouses. were in attendance as we received five inspiring presentations from our colleagues. Check out (or review, if you were there) the presentations linked below: Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro (with Dr. Leslie Purnell) – Medical...
read more2023 Winter Missions Breakfast
Focus On Missions Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 28th, from 9-11 am in Wallace Hall at Brighton Presbyterian Church, 1775 East Avenue, Rochester, NY . We’re looking forward to some inspiring presentations (see list below) so mark your calendars, respond using our RSVP page, and come out to hear how some of your colleagues are crossing cultures to share their faith and skills with people groups in need. Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro (Family Medicine) –...
read moreChase Miller in Kijabe
Praise God I arrived safely in Kijabe Kenya on October 1 with uneventful travels. I did get stopped at the border and searched. I was sternly told that even donations are now taxed. But God was gracious and we were able to pass through without extra Tarif. Please pray Jimmy is as fortunate. He begins travels on Sunday. My first week was at AIC Cure Hospital doing cleft lip and palate surgeries. We had a small team of eleven with 4 surgeons. What a privilege to be involved in a such a transformative surgery. The children are precious in...
read more2022 Fall Breakfast
“While COVID Passes By” Our 2022 MCCF Fall Breakfast Saturday, October 15 from 9-11 am Brighton Presbyterian Church Blossom Room* Feel free to invite and bring others. Click here for a PDF flyer you can distribute. Ethan Helm will be visiting from Cambodia and sharing a report! We’ll also have an open time for all to share, so come with a word of testimony, encouragement, insight, prayer, or an amusing or uplifting anecdote with us all about how to live in victorious faith as the pandemic ebbs and flows through all the challenges of our...
read moreMillers in Africa 10-22
Back to Kenya! It seems like an eternity since I was at Tenwek in February. The cleft trip is restarting after a 2 year break due to COVID. We have a small team heading to AIC CURE in Kijabe, Kenya. This will be a 1-week trip to repair cleft lip and palate defects. There will be 4 surgeons, accompanying nurses and techs who will team up with the Kenyan hospital staff. This work is such a tangible demonstration of God’s redemptive power. Tenwek Hospital will be my next destination for 3 weeks. As usual, I have no idea what awaits me at this...
read more2022 CCHF Conference
2022 CCHF Conference April 7th-9th • Cincinnati, OH Conference Website Clinicians and Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) clinics all over the country have experienced great stress for many reasons this past year. Amazingly, by the grace of God, most have also experienced growth and supernatural provision. While we are grateful for growth, growth carries its own set of stressors. So April 7-9, CCHF will be gathering for an in-person conference designed to encourage and refresh. In addition to our normal agenda, we plan to offer a...
read moreAddiction Medicine
Fusion Event (virtual-only) Saturday, March 12th @ 7:00pm Topic – Addiction Medicine and the Opioid Crisis. Register at www.cmdaofwny.org Join us for a discussion on Addiction Medicine, featuring our good friends and colleagues, Dr. Warren Yamashita and Pastor Frank Monteleone who are working together with others to form a new interest group within CMDA nationally that will focus on a spiritually sensitive and socially responsible response to the addiction epidemic. Warren is a Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine Physician who recently...
read moreMillers in Africa
Updates from Tenwyk I was finally able to post a blog tonight. It has been quite busy with some late nights! Here’s an intro: Wednesday, February 16 – Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery have been intersecting this trip! Aaron and I were able to work together this week on a combined urgent case. Young 18 year old with a brain abscess secondary to a chronic ear infection. We worked long and hard but praise God she is doing well. This is only by the grace of God as I usually do my ear surgery under a microscope. This week I have been...
read moreClara in Ethiopia!
Dear Family and Friends, All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. {John 6:37} Thank you all for praying for Ethiopia and me over the last couple months. What a journey that God is using to teach me both about Himself and who I am. He is a good Father. These indispensable lessons I hope to share with you in person one day. Because the security situation showed significant improvement, at the end of January, my school allowed me to return to Addis Ababa! I’m absolutely thrilled to be...
read moreRoca Blanca Update
Mission in Mexico During our second full week here, the work week dragged into Saturday to accommodate the Pastors’ conference ending at 3. By now, we have had a little experience in on the diagnosis of COVID. We were hampered somewhat by the lack of COVID tests in the clinic. We were having to send people to Rio Grande or Puerto Escondido at the cost of $300 pesos or 500 pesos. Laura, our nurse here, drove many people to Rio herself, sometimes more than once a day. We did eventually buy some tests to do in the clinic, but those were used...
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