As a young nurse, Aileen Coleman left her homeland of Australia in June 1955 for ministry in the Middle East. Sixty years later she remains in active ministry serving the Bedouin people in the Kingdom of Jordan. She will respond to questions reflecting on her years of service as a single women in the Muslim Middle East. She has a burden to see another generation of workers in this field.
This session will give the participants ways to: Identify the needed equipment and supplies for a therapy clinic on a short term missions trip; Identify the obstacles for the clinic to function properly and efficiently; Identify a time table for preparations for a short term trip with a therapy clinic; Identify the ways to prepare therapy supplies and equipment for transport on a short term trip; Identify the most effective approach for treating patients on a short term trip with limited time for each patient visit.
Medicine provides a unique opportunity to reach into the lives of Muslim people. Aileen Coleman will share how she and her colleagues have used the treatment of Tuberculosis and other chronic diseases to share the Gospel in the Muslim context.
Healthcare education and professional certification require core clinical competencies to be demonstrated before privileges are granted. In the midst of the endless cycle of healthcare training, experience, documentation and verification, there are ways to act with compassion. In global health we are called to balance competence through learning procedures, improving abilities, and honing skills, with compassion by doing what we can now to meet the immediate incredible needs before us.
This session will include leaning how the following in a community setting can help with spiritual follow up in healthcare missions:
- Utilize partnerships with local church planting agencies [Indian Christian agencies]
- Utilize relationships of trust established at the hospital or through the Community health and development programs, realizing most of us come to know Christ thru such relationships
- Offer to pray with patients / contacts
- Invite to a nearby house church for Sunday worship
