Mission and Ministry

We encourage our members

not only to integrate ministry in their everyday practices but to participate in short-term missions, both at home and abroad. Here’s a list of some of the larger organizations that support medical missions (please let us know about other opportunities):

• Medical Missions resources
• CCHF Home Missions Summer Student Programs
• CMDA Global Health Outreach
• Hospitals of Hope
• International Medical Relief
• Medical Ministry International
• OFM (Overseas Missionary Fellowship) International
• Samaritan’s Purse World Medical Mission
• Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission)
• TMS Global

Past Breakfasts and Gatherings

At least once a year we devote our regular community gathering to presentations of mission and ministry, several of which have been gathered over the years below:

1/27/24 Missions Presentations

• Dr. James Wood – India Gospel League
• Dr. Nancy Green – Women of Hope, Honduras
• Dr. Chase and Jimmy Miller – Kenya, Africa
• Dr. Christine Birnie – Pune, India

1/28/23 Missions Presentations

• Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro (with Dr. Leslie Purnell) – Women of Hope, Honduras
• Dr. Jerry and Adelaide Svoboda – Kenya, Africa
• Dr. Chase Miller – Kenya, Africa
• Patrick and Janelle Carbary – Congo, Aftica
• Dr. Kim Ressler  – Nicaragua

1/29/22 Zoom Missions Meeting

• Zoom session (with 4 out of 5 presentations recorded) – Our gathering opened with prayer and introductions, then started off with Ethan and Elizabeth Helm sharing live from Cambodia. Unfortunately our video of the Zoom meeting wasn’t started until the following presentations by Patrick and Janelle Carbary reporting about Bolivia, Chase Miller sharing her work in Kenya, Jerry and Adelaide Svoboda also in Kenya, and David Ness live from Mexico.

1/23/21 Zoom Missions Meeting

• Zoom session (with all 5 presentations recorded) – Missionary info sheet

1/25/20 Missions Presentations

• Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro – Women of Hope, Honduras
• Clara Pak – Northern China
• Dr. Joseph and Rebeca DePra – Guatemala
• Patrick and Janelle Carbary – Lebanon

10/19/19 Fall Breakfast Presentations

• Dr. Elise van der Jagt – The Christian Physician in the Halls of Academia

2/2/19 Missions Presentations

• Dr. Bill Morehouse – Program Introduction
• Dr. Jeff Harp – Haiti Medical Missions Trip
• Arayah Passero – Summer student mission with Hope Beyond in Kimana, Kenya
• Dr. David Hough – Visiting Buhtan refugees in camps in Nepal
• Dr. Chase and Jimmy Miller – ENT and water mission ministry in Tenwyk, Kenya
• Dr. Jerry and Adelaide Svoboda – Surgery and women’s mission ministry in Soddo, Ethiopia

10/27/18 MCCF Breakfast

• Dr. Michael Scharf – Recovering from ACEs PowerPoint presentation, also available as video talk on YouTube (starts at 9th slide)
• From ACEs to Assets – Fostering Resilience in Monroe County, interactive PDF handout
• ACE Score Questionnaire – Derived from ACEs Too High website.

8/25/18 “Faith in Healthcare” Retreat

• Dr. David Holmes – Evidence Based Faith in Healthcare: Prayer First. Then Action

1/27/18 Missions Presentations

• Drs. David and Mary Kay Ness – Mission to Roca Blanca in Oaxaca, Mexico
• Dr. Chase Miller – Otolaryngology in Africa
• Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro – Update, House of Hope, Nicaragua
• Dr. Jim Wood – Mission Haiti

11/11/17 “Heroin, Hope and Healing”

• Dr. David Holmes – Addiction Medicine Ministry
• Dr. Darren Caparaso – The Science and Theology of Addiction

1/21/17 Missions Presentations

• Dr. Chase and Jimmy Miller – ENT and water purification projects in Africa
• Dr. Christine Birnie, pharmacology – Pune, India
• Dr. Gina Cuyler (video) – Black Physicians Network (+ website)
• Magdalena Nichols, development – Jericho Road Ministries Global Outreach 2017

1/23/16 Missions Presentations

• Dr. Chase Miller – Otolaryngology in Africa
• Dr. Ellen Dailor – Cardiac Anesthesiology at Shisong Hospital, Cameroon (contact us for link)
• Dr. Gary Enders – Primary Care Outreach in Honduras

10/17/15 Rochester Regional Conference Presentations

• Dr. John Boll – Building a Culture of Peace in Your Workplace Workshop
• Chris Campbell – (video) Practicing Value Based Management Workshop
• Dr. William Griffin, dentistry – Science, Faith, and Healthcare
• Dr. David Kim – Physician Assisted Suicide Workshop
• Takesha Leonard, FNP – (video) Addressing Poverty in the Clinic
• Dr. William Morehouse – (video) Integrating Living Faith with Practice (+PowerPoint)
• Steve Noblett – (video) Healing as a Spiritual Issue
• Jessica Schneider – MedSend Stewardship
• Dr. Norman Wetterau – Notes on Handling Contemporary Topics

1/24/15 Missions Presentations

• Chris Campbell – Jericho Road CHC in Sierra Leone
• Dr. Ellen Dailor – Shisong Hospital, Cameroon
• Dr. Ethan Helm – Memorial Christian Hospital, Bangladesh
• Dr. David Hough – Tansen Mission Hospital, Nepal

10/18/14 Inspirational Presentation

• Dr. David Holmes – Experiencing God

1/25/14 Missions Presentations

• Natalie Masco, NP – Peru
• Dr. Gary Enders – Honduras
• Dr. Chase Miller – Tenwyk Hospital, Kenya
• Dr. Ethan Helm – Great Commission, India

1/26/13 Missions Presentations

• Jennifer Becker, MPH – Kibogora Hospital, Rwanda
• Dr. Christine Birnie  – Pune, India
• Dr. Jeff and Ellen Harp – Haiti

2/4/12 Missions Presentations

• Dr. David & Hannah Hough – Kenya
• David Terp, PA – Haiti
• Natalie Masco, NP – Zambia
• Dr. Constantino Fernandez – Nicaragua
• Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro – House of Hope, Nicaragua

1/24/09 Missions Presentations

• Drs. Brian and Kristina Lishawa – TB clinic in Jordan
• Dr. Christine Birnie – 2008 mission to El Salvador

4/26/08 Missions Presentation

• Drs. David and Mary Kay Ness – Mission to Roca Blanca in Oaxaca, Mexico

2/10/07 Missions Presentation

• Dr. Kier Thelander – work with PAACS at Bongolo Baptist Hospital in Gabon, Africa

9/25-27/06 Caring for the Whole Person Conference

• Schedule with presentation links