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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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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.

Click here to view the RASH Programme

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Join Us for a Time of Prayer and Updates on the Middle East

You are invited to an online gathering to pray for the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. This event provides a space for our community of believers to unite in faith, lifting our hearts and voices to God for peace and healing.

Participants will have the opportunity to join small prayer groups and hear firsthand updates from members involved in healthcare work in the region.

Thank you to everyone who has supported previous CMF prayer calls.

Upon registering for the event, you will receive a Zoom link via email on the day of the meeting. We look forward to coming together in prayer and fellowship.

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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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, 1 March 2025 at St Andrew’s Centre, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9EP. Please arrive by 9:15 for a prompt start – refreshments will be available. Lunch will not be provided but can be easily obtained from nearby shops.

Your Saline trainers:
Sheila Matthews – retired GP and Saline Coordinator for CMF
Rachel Mitchell – a staff nurse in Bedfordshire
Viju John – a specialty doctor in general surgery and colorectal surgery unit in Basildon University hospital

Cost:
Doctors and dentists: £30
Foundation year doctors: £25
Nurses and midwives: £20
Allied health professionals: £20
Students and unwaged: £10

Leading in Chaos

Christians in Healthcare Leadership Day Conference March 8th 2025

Leading in a modern Health Service (such as the NHS) is hard, and full of difficult, ‘less than ideal’ decisions, all made in the chaotic circumstances of policy changes, limited money, insufficient staff and surging and uncertain demand, yet for those working there this is:

‘The place that God has put us’ – to bring his values and ways.

Join us on March 8th from 10 am to 4:30 pm as we work through the challenges of being a Christian in healthcare leadership, in all its chaos. See the programme for further details.

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Come and join us for 4 nights at Criccieth where the mountains meet the sea, to consider the needs in the world today, learn more about what the Bible teaches about mission and see what God is doing.

We’ll think about what it means to make disciples and how to demonstrate God’s love in practical action. There will be the opportunity to work through practical questions, learn from each other and think through how we could be involved now and in the future. There will be time for Bible study, prayer, praise, learning in groups, wild swimming, walks and personal reflection.

Who is it for?
Christian students and health care professionals and their spouses/ partners wanting to learn more about mission and considering how they may get involved in the future.

See week programme here

Facilitators:
Organized by Christian Medical Fellowship’s Global team and joined by guests with a broad experience of cross-cultural mission work and medicine in different contexts.

Accommodation and things to do:
The Neptune is a beautifully positioned large house with sea views towards Snowdonia and across the Irish Sea. It overlooks a beach where you can swim, even in September (although you may prefer to bring a wetsuit!). See the Neptune self-catering guest house: www.theneptune.org.uk

There is plenty of B&B and self-catering accommodation available locally should you prefer that. Criccieth is a popular holiday destination with beaches, coffee shops, art galleries, an ice cream parlour and a castle. Within a short drive there is the Snowdonia National Park and opportunities for watersports.

Cost

This includes food, accommodation and course costs. If you are registering as a married couple, the easiest way is to register individually and select the married couple registration options.

Getting there
You would need to book your own travel to arrive on Monday and leave on Friday.
Address: 22 Marine Terrace, Criccieth, Gwynedd LL52 0EF.
By train the nearest mainline station is Bangor, Gwynedd, we will endeavour to help with lifts from the station (40 mins away).
Via Manchester Airport – you can offset the carbon at climatestewards.org

Enquiries to: globalcoordinator@cmf.org.uk