Millers to Tenwek 2-22!
Growing and Learning Chase Miller writes, “We are preparing to leave for Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya. Jimmy, Aaron and I will be traveling to Kenya together. Jimmy will have a 10 day trip to focus on water filter distribution in schools and churches. I will have the joy of working alongside my son Aaron as he serves with the Neurosurgery team for the month. I anticipate a busy trip overall as COVID restrictions have prevented many short-term missionaries from traveling. God has been blessing the hearing aid ministry so I plan to fit 30 hearing aids. I will be training a general...
Read More2022 Missions Zoom recap
Missions Zoom success We had 35 colleagues, including students and folks logging in from Mexico, Cambodia, Illinois, and other far-flung places to our second COVID Missions Zoom “Breakfast” on Saturday morning, January 29 from 9-11 with very edifying live reports, complete with PowerPoints, from 3 presenters back home and live reports from Cambodia and Mexico, all of whom have family and/or training ties to the Greater Rochester area. Our gathering opened with prayer and introductions, then started off with Ethan and Elizabeth Helm sharing live from Cambodia. Unfortunately our video of the...
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Missions Non-Breakfast! We had an wonderful experience last January at our first Missions Zoom “Breakfast” and were planning to do a combined in-person and Zoom meeting this year until the Omicron variety of COVID surged and pushed us out entirely into cyberspace. So this year we’ll be gathering again entirely on Zoom and hearing from the following speakers: Chase Miller, Jerry & Adelaide Svoboda, Patrick & Janelle Carbary, Clara Pak, and hopefully others who are out on the mission field now. Feel free to invite missions-minded friends and family to join us. Click here for a...
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Postponed due to Covid! Faith in Healthcare 2021 Feet in the Wilderness, Eyes on the Promised Land Originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 11, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm as noted below. We will repost when alternative arrangements have been made. We’ve enlisted two inspiring plenary speakers with more than a dozen seminar speakers and break-out sessions all focused on faith and various aspects of healthcare, so this year’s in-person (with Covid precautions) conference promises to be very encouraging. Topics Some of the topics include medical missions, understanding racism in healthcare,...
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Coronavirus: Lament and Recovery for Ourselves and Those We Serve Free Methodist Healthcare Fellowship September 18, 2021 (Virtual Only) The current pandemic has challenged us all in different ways. Grief, acute stress, and PTSD have been all too real. As Christians, we are instructed to weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn. For us to be able to fulfill this scripture we need to be aware of our own grief and emotional wellbeing. Unresolved grief often blocks us from being able to live out this calling. Intentionally giving space for grief is not easy, often messy and...
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