What is Polycentric Mission?
By Allen Yeh | The term polycentric mission has become popular. While the term has a more recent origin, the concept can be traced to the inception of…
Category: Articles (EMQ)
Asking The Difficult Questions
By Michael Soderling | Global healthcare challenges are complex. Attempts are regularly made to remedy them with technical solutions that do not addre…
Holistic Care for Holistic Health
By Karen Bomilcar | The church has tremendous potential to help communities reach new levels of wholeness. This often-unexplored context for healing p…
Community Health: A Disciple Making Movement to Foster Peace
By Boureima Diallo and Daniel O'Neill | A fruitful disciple-making movement in Burkina Faso has utilized community health outreaches as part of a holi…
Being a Witness in a Healthcare Setting
By Latha Mathew and Lindsey Miller | IHS Global developed a training process that equips healthcare workers around the globe to be witnesses for Jesus…
Caring for God’s Animals is Caring for God’s People
By Daniel Graham and Lena Wensel | Integrated into a holistic healthcare approach to missions, veterinary medicine provides an opportunity to engage t…
The Transformational Potential of Missional Healthcare
By Anil Cherian | My wife, Shalini, and I moved from India to East Africa as medical missionaries, in 2014. In partnership with others, we trained mor…
The Mission Hospital: Four Stages of Development
By Richard Davis, Evelyn Mbugua, Peter Halestrap, Ken Muma, Faith Lelei, and Chege Macharia | Ralph Winter describes four stages of development in mis…
Global Health Engagement: A Central Part of Global Mission
By Daniel W. O’Neill | Global health engagement is a key part of church planting efforts and an indispensable partner in meeting global goals for su…
Cross-Cultural Healthcare Missions in the 21st Century
By Rebekah Naylor | In the twenty-first century is healthcare missions viable and strategic? Are we mandated to meet the physical needs of people? If…