Jesus spoke of the rich man who neglected the beggar at the gate of his estate. Then of the beggar resting in heaven at Abraham's side and the rich man cut off and tormented in hell. The message that challenges me most powerfully in this parable is not the lostness...
The past Chikankata Hospital in Zambia was founded on the edge of the Gwembe valley in 1946 by The Salvation Army to provide a health service for some of the poorest people in the country. The present The AIDS pandemic in a situation of economic restructuring and declining net national and...
Tamsin and I went to Salur, a town near the east coast of India where The Leprosy Mission (TLM) has a hospital with 125 beds of which 77 are for leprosy. We were met at Calcutta airport by a TLM worker and taken to the hospital for a few hours....
It was with trepidation that I accepted my mission from MMA/CMF to go to Belarus last summer. Andrew Greenfield, Annie Leggett and I joined a conference near Minsk, organised by the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. The Chernobyl fallout, equivalent to nine Hiroshimas, ruined eastern Belarus. Whole villages were razed, communities...
Advice received before departure .. The lecture one might prepared to give may not be the lecture they want to hear. Operating facilities are limited. Patient privacy and modesty concerns are decidedly not Western. Mongolian surgeons, nevertheless, accomplish a great deal. The visitor has much to learn and should be...