CMF Autumn 2001 Conferences

The autumn conference season is now over, and has been a great success with over 500 CMF members in total attending weekend or day conferences for fellowship, encouragement and teaching. Expect to see write-ups of some of the talks in Triple Helix over the coming months. Conferences included Northern Irish (5-7 October), Northern (19-21 October), South-East (9-11 November), Scottish (16-18 November), Midlands (3 November), Oxford (10 November) and Cardiff (17 November). Planning is already underway for next year.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Wednesday 28 November 2001

This CBPP conference on the morning-after-pill provided a stimulating array of speakers on both sides of the debate, including the MP responsible for introducing it over-the-counter without prescription. One of the highlights was a fascinating debate between Graham Barker from Schering Health Care Limited and Philip Howard over the mechanism of action of the ‘contraceptive’.

Healthcare Mission Forum - Tuesday 27 November 2001

Over 100 leaders in healthcare mission attended this inaugural conference on the challenges in healthcare mission organised jointly by CMF, MMA HealthServe and Global Connections (formerly EMA). In their opening addresses both Peter Saunders (CMF General Secretary) and Lena Morrow (Belfast Bible College), without any prior collusion and speaking from different passages of Scripture, made the same three points - that healthcare mission was about Preaching the Gospel, Healing the Sick and Bringing justice to the poor. Did God want to underline this? A series of seminars and small group discussion addressed specific issues in healthcare mission today. Transcripts of talks and seminars will be published. Watch this space.