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Nurses’ and Therapists’ Joint Conference This year’s conference will be entitled ‘Whatever Next… Developing a Biblical response to current healthcare trends’ and will be held 3 - 5 March 2006 at the Quinta. John Wyatt will be the main speaker, and will be looking at how we respond as Christians...
Staff news We mentioned Jonny Thiessen in the last issue of CMF News as the new International Coordinator; he is now really well settled in, having just received his National Insurance number, making him legal at last! He has also got engaged to Fiona, a fellow student at All Nations,...
CMF has to move. The building in which we are located has been sold to a developer and will be knocked down and replaced by a hotel some time between January and December 2007. The Church Missionary Society, our landlord, has already purchased a new HQ in Oxford and will...
Following the House of Lords Debate on the Select Committee Report on his Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill Lord Joffe announced his intention to table yet another bill under the same name. This had its first reading in the House of Lords on 9 November and is reported...
More than two years ago, we revised our aims in CMF to include ‘Evangelism - To encourage Christian doctors and medical students to be witnesses for Christ among all they meet.’We have always been encouraged to share our faith with our colleagues, but in the past some have been reticent...
I hope that what is described in this first edition of CMF News for 2006 will encourage you. Let me highlight some special issues for praise and prayer. As featured on the front page one of our biggest challenges in the coming months is our approaching move from Partnership House....
Visit to Central America and Brazil - 14-26 November 2005 At the Conference in Ecuador in December 2004 the Regional ICMDA Secretary, Dr Luis Urrutia, extended an invitation to attend the X1 Congreso Centreamericano to be held in San Salvador from 17-19 November 2005. This visit afforded the opportunity to...
ICMDA Sydney 2006 The 4 yearly ICMDA World Congress is happening this summer in Sydney, Australia with the theme ‘Health and Hope’. There’s going to be a special juniors and students pre-conference from 7-11 July, before the main conference 11- 16 July.We’re hoping to have a large UK contingent going...
Congratulations On their awards and appointments: June Jones - PhD in Medical Ethics Tim Lyttle - Medical Director on the Wrexham Local Health Board Andrew Fergusson - President and CEO of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity If you have recently received an award, a new appointment or postgraduate...
Kashmir Earthquake – the need for longerterm involvement The CMF appeal has generated a hugely generous response in terms of money donated together with some members who have offered to get involved personally (see Triple Helix). In the short term, CMF has been directing interested persons to SIM, Tearfund and...
The ongoing growth of PRIME carries a sense of awesome responsibility.We are aware that we are being led to develop a whole new model of sharing the values of the gospel within academic medical teaching. As we share our vision abroad we are repeatedly finding such an appetite to hear...
Book packs for ICMDA Sydney: can you help please? The ICMDA World Congress is to be held in Sydney in July 2006.The CMF gave book packs to students and developing world delegates at the World Congress in 2002 and the Eurasian Congress in 2004. At its meeting on 3 December...
As we roll into another year my mind is fixed very much on the National Students’ Conference on 10-12 February, ‘Radical King, Radical Kingdom’. By the time this newsletter reaches you, bookings will be rolling in and final preparations will be being laid. Pray for Mark Ashton, giving Bible addresses...
