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Are you working in Global Health and Mission?

Are you a generalist?

CMF Global is hosting a series of interactive online training modules. These will be collaborative, with teaching, small group work, questions and feedback. This year we’re aiming these at generalists looking for more specialist teaching. There will be time to get to know one another and the subject more thoroughly.

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Every Christian health professional has a unique opportunity to improve their patients’ physical and spiritual health but many feel frustrated by the challenge of integrating faith and practice within time constraints and legal obligations.

However, the medical literature increasingly recognises the important link between spirituality and health and GMC guidelines approve discussion of faith issues with patients provided it is done appropriately and sensitively. This Saline online course will address this topic and help us live for and share Christ in our workplaces.

This practical and interactive course will include a mix of teaching and small group discussion, with opportunities to pray for one another.

The course will take place on Zoom from 8 pm – 10 pm on the following dates: 14 October, 21 October, 11 November, and 18 November.

BOOKINGS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Spaces are full and we can no longer make changes to existing bookings.

We look forward to welcoming our attendees to CMF’s Junior Doctors’ Conference 2024!

Please check your emails for the most up to date information.

Jesus and Justice

Speaker: Giles Cattermole

The Lord is a God of justice (Isaiah 30:18).

And so, his followers long for justice. In a world full of injustice, we need his justice, proclaim his justice, and live out his justice.

Over three talks, we’ll dig into what Isaiah teaches about God’s justice, our injustice, his solution in the justice of the Cross of Jesus, and what it means to live and speak for Jesus and justice today.

Main speaker | Giles Cattermole

Giles works part-time as an Emergency Medicine consultant and part-time for a church in London. He was previously the CMF Head of Student Ministries and, more recently, the UCCF London Team Leader. He trained in Oxford and Wales, has worked in academic emergency medicine in Hong Kong and Rwanda, and was the founding chair of the RCEM global emergency medicine committee. Giles is married to Victoria and has four children. He is also a keen cruciverbalist.

Download the full programme for more details.

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Are you an internationally trained nurse or midwife now working in the UK, or do you know someone who is?

Join us at CMF’s International Nurses Dinner, an event just for you!

This is a bring and share event, here’s how it works:
Bring a dish of your choice— your signature recipe, or a family favorite.
We’ll gather together, share our dishes, and enjoy a variety of flavours from everyone’s kitchen!

This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with others, share stories, and enjoy a range of food in community.

Please let us know if you can make it and what you plan to bring. If you have any dietary restrictions, feel free to share so we can accommodate everyone.

Sign up to be involved in an evening of delicious food and great conversations!

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Do you have questions about faith at work?

• Is talking about faith legitimate?
• Is it good medicine?
• Is it practical?
• Would I have time?
• How can I learn more?

The medical literature increasingly recognises the important link between spirituality and health. Yet many Christian health professionals feel frustrated by the challenge of integrating faith and practice within the time constraints and legal obligations of the workplace. GMC guidelines approve discussions of faith issues with patients provided it is done appropriately and sensitively.

Christians are called to be ‘the salt of the earth’ flavouring life with grace and truth. Saline Solution is a one-day course designed to help Christian healthcare professionals become more comfortable addressing a person’s spiritual needs in a clinical context. There is a mixture of teaching and small group discussion.

The course will take place from 09:30 (UK time) on Saturday, 7 December 2024 at Upton Vale Baptist Church, St Marychurch Road, Castle Circus, Torquay, TQ1 3HY.

Travel by car: There is some on-street parking nearby. The Town Hall pay and display car park is located on Lymington Road which is just across the road from the church.
Public transport: The church is a 20 minute walk from Torquay or Torre train stations.

A simple buffet lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Your saline trainers:
Stephanie Moss – a retired GP in Birmingham and CMF Associate for workplace evangelism.

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RASH is a day course for all health professionals who want to support the health, system and spiritual needs of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

God calls us to care for the stranger in our midst, to protect orphans and widows, to ‘act justly and love mercy’. (Micah 6:8) How does this translate to the way we care today?

Over the past 20 years, hundreds of thousands of refugees have come to the UK, with many seeking asylum. The ‘Refugees and Asylum Seekers Health Course’ (RASH) aims to equip Christian healthcare practitioners and others to:

• Improve knowledge of the healthcare needs, responses and challenges for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
• Hear examples of good practice
• Foster a dialogue among those working with refugees and asylum seekers for mutual encouragement and support
• Inspire creative ways to engage with health systems for better provision, support, and care

The programme is an interactive learning experience led both by those who have been refugees and those who are healthcare professionals in this field. Local charities or churches working with refugees and asylum seekers will also find this day useful. If you encounter people from outside the UK in your everyday practice, then this is the day for you.

31 January to 2 February 2025
Yarnfield Park Training and Conference Centre, Staffordshire

A Celebration of Limitation

If you’re not ‘busy’ are you even doing life properly?

Ultimately, busyness means living at our limits—and those limits can feel restricting. So, we use time, energy, money, and technology in a constant effort to overcome our limits. Those we can’t overcome we fight, those we can’t fight, we’re told to accept. Which is all rather like a patient receiving a cancer diagnosis: ‘I’m sorry to tell you, but you’re limited’.

But what if human limits aren’t a bug, but a feature of our humanity? What if learning to live well in God’s world actually means learning to love our limits as our (unlimited) God’s (limited) creatures? That’s what we’ll spend some time considering this weekend, with help from the wisdom of Ecclesiastes, and the glory of Christ.

Matt Lillicrap will be the main speaker. He originally studied medicine in Newcastle and worked around the Northern Deanery. He has been a medical registrar, then a pastor and seminary tutor and is now CEO of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF).

To see the programme and seminars, please click here.

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