CMF’s student section has progressed steadily during the past year and we thank the Lord for a student membership of around 1,160.
Following on from the excellent National Students’ Conference on 21-23 January plans are progressing nicely for the 2006 conference on 10-12 Feb 2006, with Mark Ashton (St Andrew the Great, Cambridge) lined up for Bible addresses and Peter Saunders for the conference address.
Nucleus continues to help medical students around the world integrate their faith with their professional lives and new editor Gavin Ling is doing a great job of taking things forward. We hope you like the new design.
We have not been co-opted onto the BMA medical students’ committee (MSC) for 2005/6 due to what appears to be a general anti-religious leaning. However, CMF members remain very active on the committee in their own right, including the chair Leigh Bissett (Norwich). They need our prayer support in this vital role.
Student staffworkers Richard Knox (Midlands) and Tim Hinks (South) enter their second year of service this summer and Sarah Gwynne (South West) began in February 2005. All are doing an excellent job and Richard got married on 4 June! Our two relay workers Peter Friend (Cardiff) and Matt Kehoe (London) finish this summer and we are currently inter-viewing for others to take on the baton. Please pray that God continues to raise up new staff to serve our students.
International and overseas activities remain high on the agenda. The ICMDA European conference in Germany on 5-12 September 2004 saw over 600 people from over 50 countries - mostly students and junior doctors. A very notable event was a training retreat for ICMDA Area. Student Reps that took place intheUK on 22-24 May. It was the first time that these key students and junior doctors had come together to support each other as they help nurture the growing national movements across the continent.
This summerCMF is sending summer teams of students and juniors to help run camps for medical students in eight different locations throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Please pray for them as they encourage and help build up growing groups of Christian medics allover Eurasia.
One other future development on the agenda is our hope to transform the current London-based SCC into a more representative national students' committee with a broader remit during 2006.
Looking forward, I have now begun as a part time GP registrar in Thamesmead,. SE London, for 18 months. This conveniently puts back plans to.find a successodor me and for me to begin a new role of staffworker support and training (see page 8), as I will be in this job until October 2006.
