The production of new books in English has proved challenging and the Executive Committee has now agreed to appoint a Senior Editor to ensure that new publications can be produced in a timely manner and support given to the General Secretary in the editing of Triple Helix and other journals.

Publications sales in 2005 (£16,573) are already higher than the first 6 months of 2004 (£9,962), with Hard Questions about Health and Healing, Matters of Life and Death, and Jesus MD accounting for nearly half the total sales. In addition, CMF has received a legacy of £20,486.97, specifically intended for publications.

Hard Questions about Health and Healing was published in April and is selling particularly well. Have you bought six copies to give to friends? (‘I didn’t know CMF produced books such as this’; ‘How interesting’; ‘An excellent read’; ‘It was so good I read it at one sitting!’)

We now have the technology to mass-produce CDs of conference talks in house and work is proceeding apace in making recent key addresses available.

The Romanian translation of Matters of Life and Death has been completed but there have been delays with final editing and printing. The first set of 500 copies is to be available at the Bucharest Book Festival in May 2006. The CMF Executive has approved a grant of £2,500 to produce 1,000 copies.

It has been agreed that the 10 most recent CMF Files should be sent to the largest 3,000 secondary schools. We last carried out a mailing in the autumn of 2002.

CMF regularly mails journals to missionary members serving abroad. The current situation is that:

• 96 members receive Tropical Doctor at a cost of £3,360
• 84 members and CMF Office receive Medicine at a cost of £2,550
• 34 members and CMF Office receive Surgery at a cost of £1,540

The total cost including postage is approximately £8,650 per annum. 1,000 copies of Doctors Life Support 2 in Indonesian have been printed and distributed in Indonesia (where there is a growing Christian doctors movement), thanks in part to a £1,000 grant from CMF.

A booklet containing the Chinese Translations of the CMF Files is now printed with the help of a £1,000 grant from CMF. Files 1-23 were already available on the website www.doctorluke.org and on CD-ROM.

The new CMF website was launched on Wednesday 9 March 2005; some 79,226 people had visited by 31 May 2005 (equivalent to 317,000 per year).

Please pray for all these projects and for the effect these publications will have in changing the way people think and act.