AMEN 2006: The Right Arm, the Right Approach, Right Now

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2006 Friday Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Lloyd Dayes

Arthur Weaver

Ministry After Retirement

John Chung

Richard Hart

Mission Possible: Short and Long Term Overseas Opportunities

Mark Finley

Foundations of the Adventist Health Message: What Makes Adventist Doctors Unique?

Phil Mills

Edwin Nebblett

Maria Nebblett

Ministering to Your Own Family While Ministering to Others

I'm delighted to spend a few minutes with you studying the Word of God, studying the ministry of Jesus.

And I don't know if we've had prayer yet, but...

Father, we thank you that as we study your word, that the living Christ speaks to our hearts and draws us closer to him.

We pray now as we walk in the footsteps of Jesus, we walk through the Gospels and we see how he ministered to people, how he cared for people, that you would give us those loving, compassionate hearts to be a blessing to others in Christ's name.

How many of you are students of allied health professions?

So most of you are studying either to be physicians, to be dentists.

Anybody else who's with us that you're nursing students?

I want to spend a little time with you reflecting on medical missionary work.

If I asked you the question, and let's suppose you were doing an oral comprehensive for a PhD, and In the middle of the discussion that you were talking about physiology Tim Your professor looked up at you, and he said by the way would you define medical missionary work for me?

Anybody in our class this afternoon give me a 1 sentence definition just 1 sentence.

Medical missionary work is, in less than 20 words.

Okay, 1 sentence definition of medical missionary work.

I would say Ellen White's title of her book is The Ministry of Healing.

Medical missionary work is the ministry of healing.

Could a Buddhist do a ministry of healing?

Could a secular person do a ministry of healing if you didn't believe in God?

I suppose it depends on how you define ministry, doesn't it?

Healing, ministry of healing, some other definitions.

Medical missionary work is saving the body and soul saving the body and soul for heaven.

If you charge, is it medical missionary work?

So it has to do with compassion and revealing the Gospel in life.

It's a ministry, we've talked about that, that has to do with body and soul, it has to do with compassion.

I'd say using medical technology and arts to create an opportunity for interaction in which to introduce or strengthen somebody's interaction or experience with Christ.

So when some people think of medical missionary work, they don't think very much about technology, do they?

They think more about maybe home remedies or something that, but you would include technology in that whole aspect of ministry.

Modeling the healing, preaching, teaching ministry of Jesus.

It gets Don's idea of ministry in, It gets the compassion in, it gets body and soul in, it gets technology in.

Okay, anybody else want to add something?

And you could also say physical, mental, and spiritual restoration, or ministering to the dying of all diseases.

When you think of medical missionary work, is that exclusively limited to those who have medical degrees?

I would sort of, you know, slice words a little bit and try to say medical missionary is for people who are trained in the healthcare professions and health ministry I would say is the layman's approach.

Okay, So you'd make a distinction between health ministry and medical ministry.

There, treating with the neighbor, and helping them in that way.

As we look at spirit prophecy, that would be I think, medical missionary.

As we work with the church, I think it's helpful to make it distinct.

Did anybody else want to share something?

It has an integration of the body, the mind, and the heart.

Okay, so there's an integration in medical missionary work.

I'd like to spend some time studying, yes.

I'm gonna disagree a bit with Steve, not terribly, but I think that medical missionary work is not just being an evangelist in a business setting.

Like ASI, it's the marketplace to reach people.

I think a true medical missionary work actually changes our practice of healthcare.

Meeting the health needs with the attitude of Jesus.

Medical missionary work is meeting health needs with the attitudes of Jesus.

If we took down every sentence, we would probably have the beginnings of the first chapter of a good book, wouldn't we?

I'd like to study with you for a little while the compassionate ministry of Jesus and I'd like to introduce it with a classic story of Dr.

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AMEN 2006 Friday Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Foundations of the Adventist Health Message: What Makes Adventist Doctors Unique?

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