Summer Medical Institute
The vision of the Summer Medical Institute (SMI) is to raise up healthcare providers who use their professions to honor God and grow in love for Him. The SMI is organized by the Valley Baptist Family Practice Residency in Harlingen, TX. This will be the ninth year for the South Texas SMI. Being located on the TX/MX border, we have ample opportunity to provide care to medically underserved neighborhoods called colonias. The SMI medical outreach serves as the practical vehicle for mentoring the next generation of health care workers. Each year we accept applications from qualified physicians...
Read MoreRafiki Missions Opportunity
The Rafiki Foundation is looking for help with their ministry to needy children in Africa and is seeking Christian physicians to serve short term during one of their quarterly Community Medical Clinics.Rafiki, a Swahili word for friend, is a Christian missions organization with Villages in 10 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Their Villages are located in Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia.In sub-Saharan Africa, the AIDS pandemic has deprived many children of their fathers and mothers. Even with one surviving parent, the needs of a child...
Read MorePrayer for Bongolo Hospital
From Deb Walker, head of PediatricsPLEASE PRAY FOR BONGOLO HOSPITALWe are getting hit very hard because of the government hospital worker’s strike that is already a month old (since Jan.12). It is just now getting to the unbearable stage at our hospital. Maternity is up 2.5 times the normal volume and outpatients have doubled. Almost all hospital beds are full. If this rate continues very long, we will run out of certain medications and tests like HIV tests before our next order can arrive. People are getting angry at having to wait because of consultation and lab overload or when we...
Read MoreLaugh, love, lift
I would be true, for there are those who trust me.I would be pure, for there are those who care.I would be strong, for there is much to suffer.I would be brave, for there is much to dare.I would be friend of all, the foe, the friendless.I would be giving and forget the gift.I would be humble, for I know my weakness.I would look up and laugh, and love and lift.I would be prayerful through each busy moment.I would be constantly in touch with God.I would be tuned to hear His slightest whisper.I would have faith to keep the path Christ trod.A hymn, written by missionary Howard Walter
Read MoreBe present
Practice presenceBreathe in the squeaky cry of a too-thin infantdirt blowing off the road in your eyesthe pain of having too little to giveBreathe out flaming bougainvilleathe sun fading behind the hillmagic of medicine on an infected handBreathe in poverty and pain and confusionthe ache of tip-toeing on another’s sufferingBreathe out fresh watermelonHonduran coffee in the morninga game of duck-duck-goose.Breathe in the guilt of problems unanswered,wasted time, a broken worldBreathe out a new friendship and a fresh coat of paint.Practice presence –learn to sit still, listen longer, absorb...
Read MoreTrip to Honduras
URMC to provide help in Hondurasby Justina Wang. Democrat & Chronicle Staff writerNext month, about a dozen University of Rochester Medical Center doctors, nurses and students will travel to Honduras to repair water filters, build cook stoves, hand out school supplies and talk with impoverished families. It’s not pure medical work, but they believe their helping hands could do more for the health of people in developing countries than any stethoscope or needle.”It’s so easy to see there that if you don’t have clean water and your child gets diarrhea three times a...
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