Center for HIM | Center for Health in Mission

Our Vision is:
“People from every nation living lives in health and wholeness.”

Creating spaces where innovators in missions can effectively Collaborate in order to Catalyze movements of health and wholeness among the nations.

News/Updates

We successfully facilitated the Healthcare Track for the International Wholistic Missions Conference in May and look forward to doing this again in 2017.

Plans continue for our participation in the Lausanne Young Leaders Gathering in Jakarta in August. Mike will be leading two breakout sessions for upcoming young Christian leaders from around the world. One thousand are anticipate for this event.

C4HIM and the Lausanne Health in Mission Issue Network are facilitating a track on the church’s role in ministries of health, healing and wholeness at the 3rd annual GMHC-Africa meeting in Kenya in Sept.

Mike was able to attend the Practice and Presence: A Gathering for Christians in Healthcare event put on by the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School.

Larry Fountain, son of Dan and Miriam Fountain, has been assisting Mike in the development and maintenance of the Fountain School website.

Mike continues to work with others in the development of a master’s level class on the dependency syndrome which is such a huge problem in Christian missions. The plan is for this to be a class for what we project will be an MA in Global Health Leadership.

Mike just completed taking the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement intensive. This will give him more insight into how to build the Outlook on the Christian Global Health Movement course.

Mike attended and conducted a breakout session at the GMMA conference in Irvine, CA. The topic discussed was “Changing Paradigms in Global Health Missions.”

The Centre has been approved for full membership into the Frontier Ventures family. Frontier Ventures (formerly the US Center for World Mission, home of the Perspectives course and founded by Dr Ralph Winter) has a special focus on facilitating achieving the great commission of which Christian healthcare ministries will have a key role.

Ongoing conversations are taking place regarding how some are using short-term mission teams with a healthcare focus to reach unreached people groups. We hope an article will be forth coming.

Ongoing Initiatives

Presently we are involved in several developing initiatives. These include:

The Fountain School for Community and Global Health. MORE INFO

The Best Practices in Global Health Missions initiative is also moving forward. We are in the process of defining the structure and such things as templates for submissions. For more info contact, mjsoderling@gmail.com

“Outlook on the Christian Global Health Movement” a Perspectives-like course but with a focus on the Christian Global Health Movement (what some would call the Medical Missions Movement).

The Health in Mission Lausanne Issue Network is in place and growing. MORE INFO

Global Christian Health Asset Mapping initiative: we have catalyzed conversations that we hope will facilitate this happening. It is long overdue.

Upcoming Events

YLG meeting in Jakarta, Aug 3-10

Medical Missions Summit, SIM center in Charlotte, NC. Aug 31 to Sept 2

CCDA annual conference, Aug 31 – Sept 3

GMHC-Africa in Kenya, Sept 8-10

ACCORD developing excellence forum, OCT 24-29, Ridgecrest, NC

GMHC 2016, Louisville, Kentucky. NOV 10-12

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Our Vision is: “People from every nation living lives in health and wholeness.”

Creating spaces where innovators in missions can effectively Collaborate in order to Catalyze movements of health and wholeness among the nations.

News/Updates

Ongoing Initiatives

Upcoming Events

Our Vision is:
“People from every nation living lives in health and wholeness.”