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IOM repairs donated surgical instruments already in the hands of healthcare providers for mission trips. Instruments of Mercy has refurbished equipment for over 100 missions in over two dozen countries. Medical professionals preparing for mission trips may receive up to $6,000 in repair costs and up to 24 trips are supported annually.
Hospitals of Hope is a 501(c)(3) Christian medical missions organization that aims to improve the healthcare of the under-served, both locally and internationally. [ 1 ] Hospitals of Hope sends medical, dental, and general volunteers, as well as students at various levels in their training, to serve at the Hospitals of Hope hospital in Vinto ...
MAP International was founded in 1954 by J. Raymond Knighton, the first Executive Director of the Christian Medical Society, now known as the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA). Knighton had heard reports of missionary doctors in remote parts of the world lacking necessary medicines and health supplies to adequately treat their ...
His first mission trip was in the summer of 1977 to the Gaza Strip, with his wife, Beaufort native Patricia Lubkin Bush, a nurse, and their two children, Clay, then 8, and Dolly, then 3.
Bush treated inmates at county jails after going into them with his guitar to lead devotionals. But a medical clinic in Haiti may best tell his story.
Medical missions is the term used for Christian missionary endeavors that involve the administration of medical treatment. As has been common among missionary efforts from the 18th to 20th centuries, medical missions often involves residents of the "Western world" traveling to locales within Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Pacific Islands.
The Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) is a professional association of physicians and dentists, with two constituent bodies, the Christian Medical Association and the Christian Dental Association. [2] As of 2018, CMDA had over 19,000 members. [1] It is the United States affiliate of the International Christian Medical and Dental ...
A short-term mission (STM) is the mobilization of a Christian missionary for a short period of time ranging from days to a year; many short-term missions are called mission trips. The short-term missionary is a fairly recent innovation in the global missions movement, but many short-term missions agencies are seeing an increased number of trips ...