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Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA)
http://www.cmdahome.org

Information concerning the member services and ministries of CMDA, Global Health Outreach, our short-term medical mission teams and community-based ministries located all across the US. Find out how doctors can minister to their patients and integrate their Christian faith into their medical or dental practice.

Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) Korea
http://www.kcmf.org (in Korean)

Composed of medical, dental, oriental doctors and students, serving in ministries to evangelise the medical community, to mobilise and support missions, to provide social services and Christian medical professional services in partnershp with other missions and Christian professional organizations.

Community Health Global Network
http://www.communityhealthglobal.net

Community Health Global Network: aims to link, encourage, train, inform and empower Christian and other community based health programmes, -not through duplication but by mobilizing and encouraging people to learn from each other and make use of local and regional resources.

Dentistry for Mission
http://www.dentistryformissions.com

Learn a great skill in which you can demonstrate the love of Christ in a practical way. Dental decay and gingivitis are the most common diseases in the world. Millions suffer needlessly. In just seven intense days, Dentistry for Missions can train and equip you to bring greatly needed dental care to your community. Courses offered monthly in Texas, USA.

Emmanuel Hospital Association
http://www.eha-health.org

EHA is a fellowship of Christian institutions and individuals that exists to transform communities through caring, with primary emphasis on the poor and the marginalized.

Humedica International
http://www.humedica.org

Medical aid, food provision, catastrophe relief, technical and refugee assistance, relief through cooperation with affiliated organizations.

In His Image
http:/www.inhisimage.org

Since its inception in 1989, In His Image (IHI) has brought medical care and the love of Christ to the far reaches of our hurting world. Our short-term overseas outreaches include free clinics, disaster relief, orphanage ministry, and a special emphasis on medical education.

International Aid Sweden
http://www.ias.nu

A Christian Relief and Development Organization, working mainly in Eastern Africa. Initally registered in 1990 as a foundation in Sweden and formed to assist the Sudanese people in Sudan.

International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA)
http://www.icmda.net

The International Christian Medical and Dental Association unites nearly 50 national movements reaching out to Christian doctors, dentists and medical and dental students around the world. The vision of ICMDA is to encourage the younger and weaker movements, to help collegues working in places of particular need and to channel the resources of the stronger associations towards those who require more help and support.

International Disaster Emergency Services (IDES)
http://www.ides.org

The mission of IDES is to serve as a channel through which Christian Churches and Churches of Christ and individual Christians can meet the physical and spiritual needs of suffering people throughout the world. Nowaday IDES provides development services to empower people to sufficiency, Other services include evangelism services, disaster-related services, hunger-related services, and medical services.

International Health Services
http://www.ihserve.org

Began in 1996, when Dr. Robert Snyder and his family moved to Hungary to start a work with the medical professionals in Hungary. In its first five years IHS has successfully established an extensive network with the government, with church leaders, with the healthcare system and with major mission organizations in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European nations. Contact in the USA: ihsusa@ihserve.org, International Office: ihshungary@ihserve.org

International Service Learning
http://www.islonline.org

International Service Learning offers a unique and exciting opportunity through humanitarian/service learning programs for students to experience hands-on clinical work in Central and South America, Mexico, Africa, and the Caribbean. Adventure travel, professional field instruction, academic credit! Financial aid available.

Interserve International
http://www.interserve.org

Founded in 1852, inter-denominational, evangelical, concerned with meeting physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those in urban professional and rural settings. Ministries include medicine, teaching, TESL, agriculture, community development, engineering and administration.

Long-term (http://www.interserve.org/LTopenings.htm) and short-term "On-Track" (http://www.interserve.org/OTopenings.htm) opportunities for medical personnel are updated regularly on the Interserve database.

Medic Assist International
http://www.medic-assist.org

Medic Assist is an International Voluntary Medical Assistance Organisation dedicated to providing resources to and building capacity in local healthcare facilities, for people in areas of persecution and crisis.

Medical Missions Directory
http://mfinder.org/medical.htm

This website provides some of the many opportunities for health professionals to serve in Christian missions (Doctors, dentists, nurses, paramedics, EMT's, lab techs, many more). These agencies organize short-term trips worldwide. Some offer long term and career positions. The few agencies that are not necessarily Christian are so noted. There is a Search feature to find a location or type of service.

See also "Christian Missions for Students in Health Care Studies: Medical, Pre-med, Dental, Nursing, EMT" http://missionfinder.org/medstudents.htm and "Specialty Medical Training for Mission Service Medical Electives, Residency Options, Basic Medical Training, Rotations, Post Graduate Training" http://mfinder.org/medstudentsc.htm#special.

Medical Missions Response
http://www.mmronline.org

Medical Missions Response, MMR, links volunteer healthcare workers with strategic, short-term, healthcare opportunities around the world. Strategic opportunities are those that enable the saving gospel of Jesus Christ to advance into new areas where it has never been. MMR specifically targets unreached people groups in the 10/40 window. Volunteer healthcare workers come from many different agencies and fellowships and are bound together by their commitment to obey Christ's Great Commission. Using their professional skills, these individuals endeavor to cross all barriers that all peoples of the earth may hear the gospel.

Medical Mobilizers
http://www.medicalmobilizers.org

Medical Mobilizers offer resources and opportunities in four key areas. These are: Medical Marketplace Ministries - bringing the light of the Gospel of Christ to the marketplace of medical community (evangelism), Medical Mentoring - connecting and growing significant relationships (discipleship), Medical Marriage Ministries - offering marriage enrichment and counseling resources to medical professionals (marriage and family), and Medical Missions - mobilizing medical professionals for an outreach to those in need of medical care throughout the world by working in partnership with other medical missions organizations (outreach).

Mercyships
http://www.mercyships.org

Maritime Christian relief and development organization. Ministry to physical and spritual needs in developing nations. Inter-denominational. Field assignment; mercy ministries, evangelism, discipleship, missions, also available at locations ashore. Fully-equipped operating theatres on-board.

Missions Mobilisation Network
http://www.missionsmobilisation.com

The vision of this network is to help bring about the fulfilment of Christ's Great Commission through those people whom He is raising up as missions mobilisers. Their place is to stand behind the missions mobilisers and do what we can.They encourage and communicate; supply some resources; we tell partners where to find a lot more; they put partners in touch with one another; answer specific enquiries on mobilisation related issues; we engage in missiological research and critical thinking.

Mission Mobilizer's Database
http://www.calebproject.org/bomm/dbindex.htm

This database is an organized collection of all the Mission Mobilization Resources covered in the Brigada-orgs-missionmobilizers email conference from March 1995 through June 1998.

MMA Healthserve
http://www.healthserve.org

MMA HealthServe has grown out of the Medical Missionary Association, one of the oldest missionary organisations in the UK. Their aim is simply to help Christian healthcare professionals to get out into the mission field, through the provision of information, advice and other resources.One of MMA HealthServe's key objectives is the establishing of a Resource Centre to serve Christian churches, organisations and healthcare professionals.

Operation Mercy
http://www.mercy.t.se

Established in 1991 and now actively committed to fostering aid and welfare toward the poor and needy in North Africa, The Middle East and Central Asia and The Caucasus.

Operation Mobilization
http://www.om.org

Begun in 1957 in Mexico, spread to Europe, Middle East. South-Asia in the 1970s. International ship ministry Logos II and Doulos. Ministries include evangelism, church planting, compassion ministry, discipleship training and literature distribution. Short term and long term.

Prison Fellowship International
http://www.pfi.org

Prison Fellowship (PF) is a Christian ministry responding to the needs of prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and those affected by crime. Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is the global association of national Prison Fellowship organizations.

Pro-Health International
http://www.prohealthafrica.org

Pro-Health International provides healthcare and hope to the poor and less privelege in area of West Africa at little or no cost to recipients with the love of Christ.

Serving in Missions
http://www.sim.org

An international mission organization with more than 1,800 missionaries serving in more than 43 countries on five continents and 3 islands in the Indian Ocean. Reaches to people groups in Africa, Asia, South America, Europe, and North America. Opportunities to serve in a wide spectrum of career fields.

ShortTermMissions.com
http://www.shorttermmissions.com/

This website provides list of short term mission opportunities.

TeleServe
http://www.teleserve.org

Based on Dr. Tim Lyttle's experience of offering telemedical support to a number of people working in developing countries, Teleserve was set up as a "not for profit" organisation in October 2001, to support volunteers both health professional and laymen, who are working in parts of the world where local health care facilities are limited.

World Vision
http://www.worldvision.org

Founded in 1950 as a child-assistance organization. Now the world's largest humanitarian and relief agency. Water programs, health-care programs, agriculture and economic development. Partnership oversees sponsorship, relief, rehabilitation and community development.



Teaching-Aids At Low Cost
http://www.talcuk.org

Teaching-Aids At Low Cost (TALC) is a registered UK charity founded in 1965 by Prof.David Morley. TALC's main objective is to promote the health of children and the advancement of medical knowledge and teaching by providing and developing educational material particularly pertaining to Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It produces and supplies low cost books, which include many essential texts on tropical medicine, nursing, surgery, HIV/AIDS, child-to-child teaching books and infectious diseases.

 

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