AMEN 2008: Linked for Service

Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2008 Breakout Seminars

Errol Bryce

Health Evangelism to the Community and to the World: Your Crucial Role

Allen Lloyd

John Youngberg

Wes Youngberg

Resources for Bridging Spiritual, Physical, and Emotional Medicine, Part 1

Rick Beckermeyer

Wendell Lawrence

Dentists on the Frontline in Ministry, Part 1

David Catalano

Robert Weaver

Short Term Missions for the Beginner: How to Organize, Fundraise, and Go

Dena Guthrie

George Guthrie

Resources for Bridging Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Medicine, Part 2

Dentists on the Frontline in Ministry, Part 2

Oh, you guys sound like you need a little lunch today or something.

This is the second part of our dentist on the front line presentation.

This morning we did in office type of, you know, what we do in the office, how we minister to our patients in the office, how we present Christ in the office, and this afternoon we're going to talk somewhat more about mission trips and how the Lord has used us or can use us in a special way to to minister to people in the mission field or outreach also.

Excuse me Linda, could you get Eric for me?

And so it's called Dentists on the Frontline and Ministry Part 2, Mission Trips and Evangelism.

Beckemeyer will give us some presentations of what he's done in his mission trips, his outreach ministry and we'll have Andrea Lewis, Dr.

Lewis will tell us also about she just came up from mission trip and going on another 1 too you know and how God has used her in a special way and we'll have Eric Rivas he's from he's a resident in Lansing, Michigan at University of Michigan of Michigan State University and he's going to let us know about how the Lord is using him to do outreach ministry through his practice and in the community.

And then we have Dr.… How do you pronounce your last name?

Beckemeyer is going to introduce him more officially and he's going to tell us about some mission, work across the world.

And so let's bow our heads as we invite God's presence with us.

All kind Father in heaven, we thank you so much for your love, your watch, care, your protection over us today, and for this wonderful group of physicians, dentists, and dental and medical students who have come out to learn more about ministry for you.

Continue to open our hearts and our minds to be receptive to your Word.

Give us a desire to step out in faith and allow God to use us to do wonderful things to hasten your coming.

These mercies we ask in Jesus name for his sake.

God is calling each of us to be interns of the great physician and in Matthew 9 37 it says, then saith he unto his disciples, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the labors are few.

So we have a lot of people out here who need to hear about the message of Jesus Christ.

And God is calling us not just as dentists or physicians, but we are medical missionaries for him and we have a great work to be done.

And we went on a mission trip, in fact, Andrew went on a trip with us to Trinidad to work with the Hindu Indians last year And we went with the Loma Linda medical team with, and these are some of the students here who went with us.

And we saw how many people a day, Andrea, Quite a few, didn't we?

I mean, in overall, I guess because I've seen about 1, 200, 1, 500 people the entire week.

And this young lady who went with me right here, she's a patient of mine to the left right here.

And she was so impressed by what happened in Trinidad that she decided that she wanted to become good in the dental field and she's in dental hygiene school right now.

She applied to dental hygiene school, got in, and she's so excited.

In fact, and we're doing some Bible studies with her also.

And so God can use us as a witness to our staff, to other people in the office, and to our patients also.

She's helped out in triage and helped out with our mission trip down there.

And I'm working on 1 of the patients here, getting him numb.

He had a tooth that had been aching for, he said, about 6 months.

And he was just hurting and got no relief so he came in and we did an extraction on him.

We have some of the lower limb hygiene students here doing some, Doing some cleanings and we didn't have any fancy dental portable chairs or whatever.

We just used whatever we had and regular chairs, beds, whatever.

And the Lord blessed us and used us to do great things for Him.

Some of the dental students here working with the dental team and some patients waiting to be seen there.

Some of those sites we went into, people were waiting for hours before we got there.

We'd get there like probably 09:10 o'clock and people would be there since 4, 6, 07:00 in the morning waiting, 50, 60, 100 people, a lot of them in pain and God just used us.

I mean we were dead tired when we left in the evening, but it was, it was a, you felt rewarded that you were able to help someone.

And I remember this situation right here.

These are some people who were sitting all day and we could not see them at the end of the day.

And that really hurt inside to have people who needed to be seen.

I mean, and we just were so tired, we just were, you know, it just was impossible to see them.

And some of them actually left and went to the other site that we were going to the following day.

Traveled probably over an hour to get there just so they could be first in line, so they could be seen the next day.

And These are some big containers that collect rainwater.

Some of these places don't have natural underground water like we have.

They collect rainwater from the, you know, and we use that, we went and took buckets and filled them up so We could have things to, so the patients could spit and there was no other running water available.

So we had those open clinics outside on the tents.

This little girl had rampant caries and there were several little girls like her and there's not a lot of fluoride in the water down there or natural fluoride or they don't add any fluoride to the water.

So a lot of these kids don't have poor dental hygiene, have never seen a dentist before, these Hindu Indians, some of them.

So this little girl was, has been hurting for months.

So I felt kind of sad for her, sorry for her, so I told her mother if she wanted to be seen, I could have her come to the United States so we can do some extensive work on her.

I gave her my number and we made arrangements to have her come to Children's Hospital in Michigan.

And her mother brought up to Children's Hospital and they put her in a special program and they were able to fix all her teeth and do some extensive work on her, do some root canals and build those teeth up, put some temporary crowns on those teeth for her, get her out of pain, and her mother was so happy and that we could do this for her.

And we had some tent clinics here where patients would, we put tents out and remember this 1 day it rained and rained almost all day and as we were working on patients we were getting wet because the rain was hitting us in the back but we didn't want to stop because it was, I mean there were probably a hundred people to be seen, 200 people to be seen.

So we just kept on working until God finally stopped the rain in the afternoon sometime we were able to continue working without getting wet.

And we traveled around in those little maxi-taxis.

I think 5 of those maxi taxis that took us all around and to different sites.

We had a group of how many, about 60 of us?

And so we divided it into 3 groups and went to 3 different sites every day and the maxi-taxis will take us to different sites and we will in different parts of the island remote remote places some places had swamps didn't have any any running water and a lot of mosquitoes you know but a lot allowed us to to to work on and some of these people.

Ellen White says, there are in all cities, thousands who have the fear of god before them who have not bowed the knee to bail.

It is because so many of these are in lowly circumstances that the word does not world does not notice them but though hidden in the highways and hedges These are seeking God.

I also heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go from me?

God is not calling us to be medical professionals but to be medical evangelists.

There's so many souls dying without a knowledge of the saving love of Jesus Christ.

So, Things are pretty tough out there, aren't they?

How many of us here have gone on a mission trip?

Okay, did you feel rewarded that the Lord allowed you to use you to do a great work for Him?

And it's just a sense inside that you feel that God is using you in a special way.

We are living in a pivotal time in the history of the world.

We are all, we, with all the moral chaos, the natural disasters, the financial devastation, millions of people around us are treading the waters of life with little hope of survival.

In such a time as this when there is so much need and desperation, God is positioning us as medical professionals to be a beacon of hope and blessing to those in need.

God is calling us as dentists, physicians, and medical professionals to go in to go into the mission field.

So let's talk about let let's have some of the other health care professionals come up and share with us what how the Lord has I'll ask Andrea to come up first and tell us first of all this is very special Andrea was in Pathfinders right How many years ago Andrea?

About 12 years ago or whatever, 15 years ago.

Yeah, she lived in Michigan at 1 time, right?

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AMEN 2008 Breakout Seminars

Dentists on the Frontline in Ministry, Part 2

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