Regional Staffworker News
CMF has three regional staffworkers: Ruth Selwood (West UK), Tim Lewis (Ireland) and Malcolm Savage (Northern England). All our staffworkers produce regular prayer letters so if you would like to support any one of them in prayer please let us know. We are still looking for staffworkers for London, East England and Scotland, so if you think God may be nudging you please contact Peter Saunders for more details.
Malcolm Savage reports on his first months in the job
Since August 2001 I have been working full time as CMF’s Northern staffworker. This job involves supporting the medical students and junior doctors in Newcastle, Durham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. No one had done this job here before so a lot of my time has been spent meeting the groups and getting a feel for the Northern scene. I have been really encouraged by the vision and dedication of all the student leaders I have met. In the face of logistical difficulties and student apathy it can be hard to run a group, but they all work at it faithfully. They have also been encouraged just to know that I am around.
I have spoken at one house-party and at several meetings on a mixture of ethics and general Christian topics. These have taught me lots and been well received by the students. I am helping to organise a Northern Confident Christianity course and there is the possibility of a summer team to the former USSR in 2002. A couple of groups are very outward looking and I am hoping to get involved in evangelism. I am also tasked with supporting junior doctors in this region.
Electives Advice
The 2002 CMF Electives Preparation Days will be on 9 February (Edinburgh), 9 March (Leeds) and 20 March (London); publicity out soon. The following two resources are available FREE to members on request:
Planning your Medical Elective Overseas - all you need to know
Medical Elective Opportunities - with over 30 mission societies
Planning your Elective is also available on the Internet at www.cmf.org.uk/mission/prepelec.htm
If you would like specific advice on the where, why and how of your elective, or would like to be put in touch with other students who may have been to the same hospital (or country), contact Peter Armon (CMF Overseas Support Secretary) at the CMF Office. peter.armon@cmf.org.uk.
Elective Grants
The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society provides grants to students studying at Scottish or Northern Irish universities for their overseas electives. For more details contact EMMS, 7 Washington Lane, Edinburgh EH11 2HA. Telephone 0131 313 3828.info@emms.org. HealthServe provides the same service for students studying in English or Welsh universities. Contact HealthServe, First Floor, 106-110 Watney Street, London E1 2QE. Tel 020 7790 1336. info@healthserve.org.
The First and The Last
By the time CMF News went to press bookings were rolling in for the CMF National Students’ Conference at Swanwick on the weekend of 18-20 January 2002. Well over 300 students are expected including over 40 from 20 countries abroad. A report will appear in the next edition of CMF News
Summer Teams 2002
Plans for CMF Summer Evangelism teams to the former USSR, Eastern Europe and the Balkans are underway. At least six teams are expected to go with some new and some old locations. If you are interested in getting involved, read more about it, including some inspiring reports in the January Triple Helix and Nucleus. Details available soon.
