Missions
Mission Placement Opportunities
South Asia:
Palliative Care personnel: Palliative Care medical specialist, palliative specialist nurse, physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, and other disciplines to help establish a new palliative care unit in a rural hospital, working in the unit as well as helping provide training to local personnel
GP with rural experience; procedural skills in obstetrics and surgery valuable, to serve in rural mission hospital
Medical superintendent to take over from retiring medical superintendent in rural mission hospital, 2023 start
General Surgeon to perform a wide range of surgical procedures, attend the outpatients clinic, and consult with patients on general medical issues.
Paediatrician to work in a busy outpatient and inpatient unit for general paediatrics, as well as an inpatient and outpatient unit for disabled children in a rural Christian hospital
South Asia:
Internal Medicine Doctor, South Asia
This hospital in South Asia has a busy inpatient and outpatient medical department, with outpatient visits and inpatient admissions. We are looking for an experienced senior doctor for the long term or for a mature trainee for shorter periods, to provide patient care and support the national staff, ensuring quality service for the rural poor. A long-term doctor would help give clinical leadership to a team of 1 senior and 4-5 junior national doctors. We need doctors who are prepared to meet clinical need as it arises, as well as to contribute to training. Those with research interests will find opportunity to work on existing projects.
South East Asia:
Medical and allied health educators to upskill local medical personnel as a part of a medical education project with an established NGO
Arab World:
Dentist to serve in a well-established church-based clinic serving refugees
SIL PNG
Partner Organisation of Wycliffe Australia
Wycliffe Bible Translators Australia is a recruiting, training, equipping and sending mission organisation, providing staff for a variety of partner Bible translation organisations around the world. SIL PNG is one of our closest neighbours, so we are particularly keen to help them with the volunteer staff that they need.
Positions Vacant
Nurse practitioners at our Ukarumpa Centre in Papua New Guinea, https://wycliffe.org.au/positions/nurse-practitioner/
Doctor - PNG https://wycliffe.org.au/positions/doctor/
Dentist or orthodontist in our Clinic at Ukarumpa https://wycliffe.org.au/positions/dentist-or-orthodontist-2/
Physiotherapist to assist at the SIL medical clinic in Ukarumpa https://wycliffe.org.au/positions/physiotherapist-2/
The Good News Hospital in Mandritsara
Short term Medical Doctor for Madagascar
BETWEEN 1ST NOVEMBER 2023 AND 1ST FEBRUARY 2024, WE HAVE AN URGENT NEED FOR A SENIOR MEDICAL DOCTER TO COVER MISSIONARY HOME ASSIGNMENT
The Good News Hospital in Mandritsara, Madagascar, is looking for a medical doctor (general practitioner, internal medicine specialist, or A+E specialist) to cover a 3 month period from 1st November 2023. The ideal candidate would be a mature Christian, in the later stages of registrar training, or in consultant practice, and have some experience of working in a developing world context (although this is not essential). The medical team cover inpatient and outpatient work, and both adults and children. You will need to be able to speak, read and write some French, as it is the working language of the hospital.
The Good News Hospital is a small medical and surgical hospital serving the rural poor in the north of Madagascar. We seek to make Jesus known through word and deed as we offer high quality medical care to a population with very little other healthcare provision.
To find out more about going to Mandritsara to serve in this or any other capacity, please contact the Team Leader:
Our Goals
One of the aims of CMDFA is “To foster interest in and support of cross-cultural medical and dental mission.” As an out working of this overarching aim CMDFA seeks to promote and connect our members to medical mission opportunities.
As a result our Missions section has three main goals:
Encourage CMDFA members to consider short and long term medical missionary work.
To work with missionary organisations to identify Medical missionary opportunities suitable for members and communicate such opportunities to our members
To communicate progress of missionary members to the total Fellowship thereby encouraging support and to take up such opportunities in the future.
Medical Missions Bibliography
Provided by Neil Thompson, MD International Advocate for Medical Missions, OMF International, Tel: +1 303-730-4160 (Updated Sept 2015)
Africa
Christian Mercy: Compassion, Proclamation, and Power, David Thompson, Endurant Press, 2013
A Doctor Carries On, Thomas A. Lambie, Revell, 1942 (Dr. Lambie’s books relate stories of early medical missions in Sudan and Ethiopia.)
A Doctor Without a Country, Thomas A. Lambie, Revell; 3rd edition, 1939
A Doctor's Great Commission, Thomas A. Lambie, Van Kampen Press, 4th edition, 1954
From Death to Destiny, Harold P. Adolph, Vantage Press, 1990 (autobiography, regarding his medical work in Ethiopia)
Fiber Man: The Life Story of Dr. Denis Burkitt, Lion Publishing Corp., 1985 (the amazing story of the man who first described the tumor that came to be named after him—and who highlighted the importance of fiber in the diet)
Miracle at Tenwick: The Life of Dr Ernie Steury, Gregg Lewis, Discovery House Publishers, 2007 (The story of Tenwick Hospital in Kenya and its founder).
The Sword and The Scalpel, Lorry Lutz, Promise Publishing, 2nd edition, 1990 (biography of Dr. Robert Foster, pioneer medical missionary in Angola and Zambia).
Asia
Bangladesh
Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh, Viggo Olsen, Moody Press, 1973 (Autobiography, story of Dr. Viggo Olsen, charismatic, pioneer medical missionary to Bangladesh)
China
Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932, Edward Bliss, Jr., John Wiley & Sons, 2000
Bill Wallace of China, Jesse C. Fletcher, CrossBooks Publishing, 2009 (the story of a medical missionary who was martyred for his faith)
China and Modern Medicine: A Study in Medical Missionary Development, Harold Balme, Church Missionary Society, 1921 (The rationale and origins of medical mission in China)
Dr. D. Duncan Main of Hangchow, Who is known in China as Dr. Apricot of Heaven Below, Kingston De Gruche, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1930
A Foreign Devil in China, John Pollock, World Wide Publications, 1988 (life of missionary surgeon, L. Nelson Bell, Billy Graham’s father-in-law)
Grasping Heaven, Annelies and Einar Wilder-Smith, Deep River Books, 2010 (The story of Tami Fisk, “a young doctor’s journey to China and beyond”)
Harry Wyatt of Shansi, 1895-1938, Ernest A. Payne, Carey Press, 1939 (China)
A History of Protestant Missions in Shanxi, Andrew T. Kaiser, 2007 (Medical missions: pp. 44-52, 261-271 and passim)
Peter Parker and the Opening of China, Edward V. Gulick, Harvard Press, 1973 (Pioneer medical missionary, 1830s)
The Promise, Mary Teegardin, OMF Books, 2003 (Children’s book: a nurse’s adventures in China, leading up to the Communist takeover.)
Surgery Speaks to China: The Experience of a Medical Missionary to China in Peace and War, Paul E. Adolph, China Inland Mission, 1945
We Signed Away Our Lives: How One Family Gave Everything for the Gospel, Kari Torjesen Malcolm, IVP, 1990 (The story of Evergreen, Taiyuan, Shansi, China)
Asia
India
Doctor Sahib: Stories of an American Surgeon in India, Lawrence W. Norton, Xulon Press, 2012.
Dr. Ida, Dorothy C. Wilson, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959
Ethel Ambrose, Pioneer Medical Missionary: Poona and Indian Village Mission, Bombay Presidency, India, W. H. Hinton, Marshall Morgan and Scott, Ltd., 1930
Masked and Gowned, Lawrence W. Norton, Xulon Press, 2012
Palace of Healing: Dr. Claire Swain, First Woman Medical Missionary (In India) & The Hospital She Founded, Dorothy Clark Wilson, McGraw Hill, 1968
Punjab Pioneer, Charles Reynolds, Word Books, 1968 (The life of Edith Brown, founder of Ludhianna Medical Hospital, north India)
Rebekah Ann Naylor, M.D.: Missionary Surgeon in Changing Times, Camille Lee Hornbeck, Hannibal Books, 2008 (A story for this generation)
Ten Fingers for God, Dorothy C. Wilson, Paul Brand Publishing, 1989 (life of Paul Brand, pioneer leprosy surgeon and researcher, India)
Korea
With Stethoscope in Asia: Korea, Sherwood Hall, MCL Associates, 2010 (the story of two generations of medical missionaries in Korea)
Nepal
Don’t Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees, Thomas Hale, Zondervan, 1986 (A missionary surgeon’s experience in Nepal, autobiographical)
Living Stones of the Himalayas, Thomas Hale, Zondervan, 1993. (His stories reveal the power of medical ministry in this remote, enchanted land.)
On the Far Side of Liglig Mountain, Thomas Hale, Zondervan, 1989 (Story of the Hales’ “experiences in bringing western medicine to people who distrust – even fear – the introduction of ideas different from their own”.)
Pakistan
Frontier Doctor: An Autobiography, Henry Holland, London: Hodder, 1958
Thailand
A Promise is to Keep, Mary Teegardin, Christian Literature Crusade, 2000. (A missionary nurse’s adventures in China, Central and South Thailand.)
Doctor Number 49: Grace Warren of the Leprosy Mission, Grace Warren, SPCK—Australia, 2006 (Autobiography of leprosy and reconstructive surgery specialist who served in Hong Kong, Thailand, India and on to most of the rest of the world! Affectionately called “Amazing Grace”.)
Mo Bradley and Thailand, Donald C. Lord, Eerdmanns, 1969 (Life of Dan Beach Bradley, pioneer medical missionary, 1835-1860s)
More Than Skin Deep, Margaret Armitage, OMF Books, 1988 (True story of two leprosy patients and pioneer medical missions in Central Thailand)
Paddy Field Hospital: The Story of Manorom, Catherine Maddox, Lutterworth Press, ca. 1960 (The story of the origins of Manorom Christian Hospital)
Seeking Cure for Body and Soul: a Case Study of Leprosy Missions in Thailand, Timothy Lee Skinner, MTh. Thesis, Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth TX, 2000.
Turbulence and Toe-holds, Stephen Hayes, OMF Publishers, 1991 (life of Dr. Christopher Maddox, founder of Manorom Christian Hospital)
Tibet
Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton, Douglas A. Wissing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
North America
Labrador
Wilfred Grenfell: His Life and Work, J. Lennox Kerr, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959
Other / General / Academic
Ask A Missionary: Time-Tested Answers from Those Who’ve Been There Before, John McVay, IVP Books, 2012
Beyond Medicine: What Else You Need to Know to Be a Healthcare Missionary, David Stevens, CMDA, 2012 (What I wish I had known 35 years ago!)
The Contribution of Medical Missions: The Intercultural Transfer of Standards and Values, Christoffer H. Grundmann, in Academic Medicine (vol. 66, no. 12, p. 731), 1991.
The Cross and the Scalpel, James Hefley, Word Books, 1971 (Medical mission stories from around the world, such as Bolivia, Yemen, Vietnam, Mexico, Haiti and Tanzania.)
God, Medicine, and Miracles: The Spiritual Factor in Healing, Daniel E. Fountain, Shaw Books, 2000
Health, the Bible and the Church, Daniel E. Fountain, Emis, Billy Graham Center, 1989
Healthcare and hospitals in the mission of the church, Christian History, Issue 101, Christian History Institute, 2011
Jesus, MD: A Doctor Examines the Great Physician, David Stevens, Zondervan, 2001
Joshua Project: Unreached Peoples of the World
A Legacy Remembered: A Century of Medical Missions, Sophie M. Crane, Providence House, 1998
Medical Missionaries You Would Like to Know, Dorothy Clark Haskin, Zondervan, 1957 (Selected medical missionaries from around the world)
On Being a Missionary, Thomas Hale, William Carey Library Pub, 2003
Operation World, Jason Mandryk, IVP (7th Ed.), 2010
Preach and Heal, A Biblical Model for Missions, Charles Fielding, International Mission Board, 2008
Sent to Heal! Emergence and Development of Medical Missions, Christoffer H. Grundmann, University Press of America, 2005
When Healthcare Hurts: An Evidence Based Guide For Best Practices In Global Health Initiatives, Greg Seager, Author House, 2012
The World the Missionaries Made, Andrea Dilley, in Christianity Today, January 2014.
