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Student conference in 3 weeks
12-14 February. ~ 200 booked already. Details and online booking Pray for Giles Cattermole who starts as Head of Student Ministries on 25 January
Helping Haiti – update
Further to last Friday's e-letter, we still advise that the best ways to help are to pray and to give. However, in an update there is one Christian hospital in Haiti asking for volunteers with specific skills
Autumn Appeal almost £100,000
The Autumn Appeal
stands at £98,886. Thank you! We are still aiming for £150,000, and the Appeal will remain open until end-February. We are also seeking to raise £10,000 for bursaries and book donations to the ICMDA World Congress in Uruguay, and have only had £1,500 in so far. See World Congress Appeal
Ethics: good news
A scientific breakthrough with umbilical cord blood stem cells may eventually remove the need for matched bone marrow transplants in diseases such as leukaemia, and confirms CMF has been right to argue for years for more collection
Ethics: bad news
Margo MacDonald MSP's End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill
was published on 21 January, and The Scotsman reports it incompletely. It is not just about AS but euthanasia too as Peter Saunders' comment makes clear
Ethics: interesting news
On 20 January Mrs Frances Inglis was convicted of the attempted murder and the murder of her brain-damaged son and given 9 years' imprisonment. She has appealed. The effect long term on the end-of-life debate remains to be seen, but a range of comments appears in the Daily Mirror
Equality Bill – urgent action call
This 3' video from CCFON explains 'the privatisation of faith'. There is a key Lords vote on 25 January. See CCFON for further information and consider signing the petition to Number 10
3 CMF saints receive their reward:
clearly mentions his CMF role
Details of thanksgiving services available on request
East Anglia conference – date change
There is a season...? will now be on Saturday 27 March in Cambridge
Disability Rights and Incapacity
Day conference in London, Monday 29 March
All events
…you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator
(Colossians 3:9b-10)
Steven Fouch (CMF Head of Communications) 020 7234 9668
Alistair Thompson on 07970 162 225
Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) was founded in 1949 and is an interdenominational organisation with over 5,000 doctors, 900medical and nursing students and 300 nurses and midwives as members in all branches of medicine, nursing and midwifery. A registered charity, it is linked to over 100 similar bodies in other countries throughout the world.
CMF exists to unite Christian healthcare professionals to pursue the highest ethical standards in Christian and professional life and to increase faith in Christ and acceptance of his ethical teaching.
