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:

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
• 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