international ministries

Editorial

We can not stay the same by standing still. The place of yesterday's promise becomes the place of today's blessing, but the place of tomorrow's barrenness unless we move on with God (from David deSilva Scripture Union 'Encounter with God' 28/7/97). Patrick Dixon ('The Boomerang Effect') shows us how fast...

The Boomerang Effect

AIDS I want to say something about the AIDS epidemic because it is relevant to us all. Then I will talk about third millennial challenges. You know that one person every 15 seconds becomes infected with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) and that some 30 million have already been infected....

Dinosaur Doctor

At about 2pm on the 9th April, 1994 we loaded up our Peugeot 504 with clothes for a week or two, a few personal belongings, a picnic, our three children and their homework and school uniforms, and drove with two other car loads of expatriates who were also fleeing to...

Seeing 'Eye to Eye' in Baluchistan

Summarised from the magazine of Christ Church, Winchester, where Tom and Hilary Cope are mission partners. They are awaiting visas to go to live and work in Karachi in Pakistan. Tom is to teach at St. Thomas' Theological College and Hilary is to assist in the Eye Training Mobile Programme...

Two Electives at Rusitu Hospital

THE PLACE: Sarah Rusitu Hospitala is at an altitude of 3200 feet. It was the rainy season, so everywhere was lush and green. An American missionary couple were the only two doctors - the rest of the hospital staff were Zimbabwean. The nurses translated for us, but we soon picked...

Dr John Miller 27th June 1933 - 9th January 1997

John Miller joined the Committee of the Medical Missionary Association in October 1967 when he was only 34 years old and must have been its youngest member, however this did not deter him from being fully committed to the work. Dr Harry Bennett, who was the General Secretary at the...