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World mission is changing. New travel and communication technologies, new and emerging churches in the southern hemisphere mobilising their own mission force, etc. The impact of the new epidemics of AIDS and SARS and re-emergent TB and malaria on healthcare mission, on top of the political and social...
A recent editorial in the Guardian (April 6 2003) on the worldwide panic setting in over SARS, (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) shows how we have a habit of panicking when confronted with rumours of disasters and epidemics, often missing the real crises. It is also easy to see, with recent saturation coverage of the war in Iraq,...
Flying into Lesotho you are immediately struck by the amazing network of dark lines zig zagging their way all over the ground below. I later found out that these huge crevasses were called ‘dhungas’ and they are one of the more visible signs of the devastating soil erosion that takes place every year during the...
In the early days we were involved in fundraising for mission organisations and published ‘Conquest by Healing’, a magazine that gave information about medical mission overseas. Later, we purchased the first of several hostels, which enabled us to actively encourage Christian students to think about their own place in Christian ministry using their medical training in a...
Those of you who have read the last edition of our magazine will be aware that this year is our 125th Anniversary, and about the work done by the MMA Hostels down the years. But MMA has been involved in a lot more than just the hostels. Though we have not been in the business...
On July 12th we will be holding a one-day celebration of our one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary. To mark this occasion we are holding two events at Oak Hill College. From lunchtime, there is a half-day conference for students and health professionals to find out some of the ways in which they could be...
