international ministries

Walking With God

Moses led his people out of slavery, across a desert, back to the land where their ancestors had lived. But first he stood on the edge of the desert at the bottom of a mountain and heard God speak to him. He might have been told to climb the mountain...

Money, Sex and Power

She lay in a bed soiled by loose stool and vomit, a once beautiful young African girl now emaciated, her abdomen distended by pus, though she was afebrile because of her diminished response to infection. She cannot have understood why this was happening to her and may even have attributed...

The Nightmare We Hoped Would Never Happen

The call comes just as I have plodded home after a long and tiring day in the operating theatre. All hands are needed in the hospital to help deal with a road accident. Two biscuits later I stuff the pockets of my white coat with equipment I may need and...

My Mission - an elective in Nepal

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town; There's a brokenhearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the Yellow God forever gazes down. (From a poem by J Milton Hayes) Memories of my mother in a Crusader camp sketch wearing yellow oilskins...

A World of Opportunity - 'It's a great life!'

Would you like the freedom to integrate your Christian faith into your clinical practice? Do you want to spend more time with your family? Are you free to be mobile? If you're willing to pluck yourself from material entanglements, then a stint as a medical missionary could be the life changing...