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COVID-19 continues to dominate news headlines. Daily prime ministerial briefings may have ceased but print and TV remain devoted to this extra-ordinary microbe. Overwhelming all competitors, it has wrought terrible harm on our health and economy with hundreds of thousands infected, tens of thousands dead and many out of work...
It all started when a Maasai pastor requested a medical team to come to Kenya to build on evangelistic work done by Cambridge-based charity Through Faith Missions (TFM). I agreed to go on one condition: that the focus must be split equally between mission and medicine. So Evangelistic Medical Missions...
Richard Scott highlights the danger of losing yourself in your work. A weekend in a manor house in Derbyshire – the perfect setting for a reunion. Thirty years as doctors and all still in the NHS, bar one couple on their way to New Zealand. Walking and fine dining allowed...
In medicine we use statistics to research the effectiveness of any ‘treatment’. Let me offer a statistic from my experience of evangelism. For every eight patients I invite onto our church Alpha courses, two come and one becomes a Christian. Over the past four years, in excess of 60 patients...
Christian GPs are aware that health includes a spiritual component. But to what extent should we take some responsibility for our patients’ spiritual welfare? In particular, is it ‘OK’ to talk to our patients in surgery about Jesus? The Bible is quite clear about evangelism. We are told about the...
