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Keep up to date with the latest news and happenings.2017 Annual Gathering
With gratitude to the 2017 Annual Gathering planning committee (members listed below), we announce the content of our weekend. You’ll find a diversity perspectives represented in plenary and workshop sessions around the theme “Creating Healing Environments.” Registration booklets will be mailed in mid-February and online registration will also be launched around that time. We hope that you will plan to join us for this enriching weekend!
Planning Committee…
Reflections after the election
Thanksgiving this year comes on the heels of the surprising outcome of the most unusual and contentious election in the United States in recent memory. Regardless of how you feel about the outcome, two things are clear:
Keith Suter SET Report
With the support of an educational grant from Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship (MHF), I spent my Student Elective Term (SET) in Machala, Ecuador. A mid-sized coastal city in southern Ecuador, Machala’s growth has outpaced the development of many public services and economic resources. This has done little to change the rich culture and strong pride of the city.
Lyubov Slashcheva Grant Project Report
Nearly two years before I was born, the Roth family grieved the loss of their son to undifferentiated adeno-carcinoma. His family and friends honored Steven by establishing a tangible ongoing influence representing these wishes through a memorial fund which provides for Steven Roth Memorial Grant Program. Now, over 25 years later, I have been granted the opportunity to take part in Steven’s legacy, reflecting the way of Jesus to which we are all called to devote our unique gifts and circumstances.
Medical Educators – Tanzania
Short Term Medical Educators Sought for Clinical Training School in Tanzania
The Kisare College of Health Sciences, in Mugumu-Serengeti, desires to attract physicians and nurses from the U.S. and Canada to volunteer to teach a semester or two at the school, which is a private school run by the Tanzanian Mennonite Church.
Exploring collaboration opportunities
The final point of the strategic plan recognizes that MHF is part of a bigger vision of God’s work in the world than what we as one small organization can carry out. Thus, MHF wants to explore collaboration with other organizations to maximize the strengths of both MHF itself as well as the other organizations.
SET – Carrie Schlabach
Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 18, No. 5, August 10, 2016 MHF Student Elective Term (SET) Report Carrie Schlabach March 20 – April 28, 2016 U.S. Consulate in Mumbai, India I glanced at the world clock on my phone. It was 9:48 PM Mumbai time, and I had just...
A Funding Model for Mission
A Funding Model for Mission Paul D. Leichty, MHF Executive Director Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 18, No. 4, August 3, 2016 Over the course of the summer months, the Board has been sharing a strategic plan for the ongoing development of Mennonite Healthcare...
SET Report – Katie Ruth
Student Elective Term Report Catherine (Katie) Ruth from Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, August 2, 2016 Though I didn’t always want to be a doctor, I have always enjoyed experiencing different cultures and meeting new people. When I decided several years ago...
SET Report – Daniel Driver
Mennonite Health Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, July 29, 2016 |PDF| MHF Student Elective Term (SET) Report March 20 – April 28, 2016 in Quito, Ecuador Daniel Driver With the help of a scholarship from Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship, I spent my Student Elective Term (SET)...
