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medical clinic. Our God s琀椀ll works
today to heal and set people free.
The whole ethos of Medical Misson Network is the sharing of the
Gospel through medical work.
MMN’s aim is to follow the example Jesus set and provide support
to those in need through the provision of healthcare services. We
do this by working with partners
around the world who are doing
this in health-resource poor places and sharing the Good News of
God’s saving grace through God’s
people in their local communi琀椀es.
We con琀椀nue to support many mission hospitals where pa琀椀ents hear
daily prayers and gospel messages.
Here is an extract from a report
that Josh, a fourth-year medical
student, wrote a昀琀er his visit to Kijabe Hospital: “Every morning the
team would have a short devo琀椀onal 琀椀me led by the consultant for the
day – a great way to start the day
and commit it to God. On the ward
round, we would pray with every
pa琀椀ent – it was encouraging to see
how most pa琀椀ents were so recep琀椀ve to this.”
In some of the projects we support
we cannot evangelise openly and it
is o昀琀en in these places where our
doctors and therapists are living
tes琀椀monies. I think it was St Francis of Assisi who is thought to have
said “Preach the gospel at all 琀椀mes,
and when necessary, use words.”
You see this quote everywhere,
and for good measure too. I think
that is because its message resonates with many Chris琀椀ans about
the importance of living a life of
such Christ-likeness that it makes
the world stop, think, and enquire
about the Jesus we serve.
Here are examples of some places
where we cannot openly preach
the gospel but where lives have
been changed.
One of our partners runs a school
for deaf children in Afghanistan,
and this has impacted the lives of
many deaf children and their families.
We have supported a Chris琀椀an
therapist in China who has been
able to get into her local universi琀椀es and help those with mental
health issues. The suicide rates
among young people in China has
quadrupled in the last decade.
We support a medical work in India
where doctors run medical camps
in villages. In their recent grant applica琀椀on to MMN, they asked us for
a grant to purchase a Bone Density
monitoring machine. The trustees
ques琀椀oned this, as to us it seemed
that the grant could have been
be琀琀er used to supply medicines to
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