{"id":11479,"date":"2022-10-26T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11479"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:11:15","slug":"resource-roundup-healthcare-and-holistic-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11479","title":{"rendered":"Resource Roundup: Healthcare and Holistic Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sources: Various<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know a healthcare provider asking questions about serving in global missions? The healthcare missions community is quite active and ready to engage with those interested. MedicalMissions.com is a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalmissions.com\/resources\/26808\/five-questions-about-being-a-missionary-doctor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Five Questions about Being a Missionary Doctor<\/a> or download the ebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalmissions.com\/store\/products\/864\/discerning-gods-call-to-healthcare-missions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Discerning God\u2019s Call to Healthcare Missions<\/a>.<\/li><li>Set up an account to explore opportunities and resources.<\/li><li>Sign up for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalmissions.com\/events\/gmhc-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Missions Health Conference<\/a> held each November (both in-person and online).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cghiperspective.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christian Global Health in Perspective<\/a>, an online training course inspired by Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, and other initiatives and resources from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthforallnations.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health for All Nations<\/a> (a project of Frontier Ventures). They even have an academic journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missionfrontiers.org\/issue\/archive\/healers-and-preachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September\/October issue of Mission Frontiers<\/a> is focused on \u201chealers and preachers\u201d and has several good articles dealing with healthcare and holistic missions. To go deeper, pick up <a href=\"https:\/\/missionbooks.org\/collections\/medical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a few books about medical missions from William Carey Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many sending organizations welcome medical workers, but there are also specialized groups like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthservicecorps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christian Health Service Corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Various Know a healthcare provider asking questions about serving in global missions? The healthcare missions community is quite active and ready to engage with those interested. MedicalMissions.com is a good place to start. Read Five Questions about Being a Missionary Doctor or download the ebook Discerning God\u2019s Call to Healthcare Missions. Set up an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=11479\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resource Roundup: Healthcare and Holistic Missions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11481,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions\/11481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}