2002 Midwest Student Medical Missions Conference

Playlist of tapes:

PLENARIES
The Bible: Help or Hindrance? The Biblical Basis for Missions    - Joel Nederhood, ThD Pastor Joel Nederhood is an internationally known speaker and host of the "Back to God" radio show for thirty five years. He is currently Pastor of Preaching and Worship at the Cottage Grove Christian Reformed Church in Illinois, and Chancellor of Eastern Ukraine Theological Seminary.
Are You Ready To Take The Promised Land?    - Brent Hambrick, MD Dr. Brent Hambrick, an emergency department physician, has been serving as the Honduras medical director for Global Health Outreach. He recently founded a mobile clinic with the Hospital Evangelico in the Honduras, and is the medical director of one of the clinics there.
Whose Dream Are You Pursuing?    - Cynthia B. Hale, MD, MPH, FAAP Dr. Cynthia Hale began her work with InterServe USA in 1970 as a pediatrician and family physician in a remote rural mission hospital in Nepal. She was later an Associate Professor at the Institute of Medicine of Tribhuvan University in Nepal. She and her husband have been around the world as missions speakers.
Love, a Command, Not an Emotion    - Richard Douce, MD Dr. Richard Douce is an infectious disease specialist who has been a long-term missionary in Quito, Ecuador since 1990. He is an Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars. He is on furlough this year from his work in Ecuador.

SPECIFIC MINISTRIES
Nursing and Missions: More Than Adventure Tours    - Cathy Graves, RN and Grace Tazelaar, RN Nurses Christian Fellowship staffworker; Mission specialist and area coordinator for Nurses Christian Fellowship.
Pharmacy and Missions: Opportunities for Pharmacists    - Esther Kim, PharmD Has been involved with short term medical missions in Mexico and Honduras; currently a staff pharmacist at Lawndale Christian Health Center.

BUILDING BLOCKS
God's Call to Missions    - Roger Thorpe, MD General surgeon in missionary service to the Congo for thirty years.
The Biblical Mandate of Missions    - Steve Lee, MD, MDiv Family practitioner and the senior pastor of Faith Alliance Bible Church, and currently preparing to leave for Africa as a medical missionary.

HURDLES ALONG THE WAY
Missions and Family    - Harold Adolph, MD, and Bonnie Adolph Former career missionaries with Serving In Mission. Dr. Adolph is now setting up a new church medical center in southern Ethiopia.
Missions and Marriage: Lovers for Life    - Steve Letchford, MD, Sherri Letchford, PT Med-peds physician, and pediatric physical therapist, who are preparing to return to missions work in Zambia.
So You Want To Be a Missionary? Watch Out for the Land Mines!    - Mike Chupp, MD General surgeon with Southwestern Medical Clinic and career missionary with World Gospel Mission serving in Kenya.

LEARNING AND THRIVING
Women Physicians Who Have Made a Difference in Their World    - Mary Wilder, MD Single woman medical missionary in Pakistan, and currently a professor of missions in Portland's Western Seminary.
Dental Short-Term missions: How God Used a Dare to Change My Life    - Jack Shuler, DDS, FAGD Family and forensic dentist who has taken 27 short-term missions trips, and currently serves on the advisory board of Global Health Outreach.
Lessons My Patients Taught Me    - Mary Wilder, MD Single woman medical missionary in Pakistan, and currently a professor of missions in Portland's Western Seminary.
Evidence-Based Healing Effects of Spirituality: A Review of the Medical Literature and Case Studies from Practice    - Thomas Cornwell, MD American Academy of Home Care Physicians 1998 "House Call Doctor of the Year" who has brought Christ's love into the homes of 2000+ patients