Interdisciplinary Mission Trips

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Interdisciplinary Mission Trips

• Lessons from the mission field for community
  health
• Mary Chase-Ziolek, PhD, RN

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Theology Nursing A Team
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Collaborative Service for Gods Kingdom

• Missiology
• Intercultural Studies
• Biblical Studies
• Knowing the Word
• Evangelism
• Spreading the Word

• Public Health
• Root Causes of Health Illness
• Ethic of Care
• Whole Person Perspective
• Health as Shalom
• Community Opportunities for Health

• Theological Foundations

• Nursing Foundations

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Principle

• Preaching and teaching the gospels are incomplete
  without addressing health and healing

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Scriptural Context for Healthcare Missions
Ministry

• Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave
  them power and authority over all demons and to
  cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim
  the kingdom of God and to heal. Luke 9 1-2

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Principle

• Issues, problems and solutions need to be
  understood holistically in missions and in
  ministry

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Preparation

• Personal
• Prepare your heart
• Language
• Group
• Discerning the Spirit??
• Becoming a team
• Planning with receiving group
• Partnership
• Partnership
• Laying foundation?????

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Principle

• Community determines the issues and actively
  participates in solutions

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Standards of Excellence

• God-Centeredness
• Empowering Partnerships
• Mutual Design
• Comprehensive Administration
• Qualified Leadership
• Appropriate Training
• Thorough Follow-up
• Christian Short-term Healthcare Missions Best
  Practices http//www.csthmbestpractices.org/

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Developing an Interdisciplinary Team

• Recognizing utilizing gifts
• Now the body is not made up of one part but of
  manyIf the whole body were an ear, where would
  the sense of smell be? But in fact God arranged
  the parts of the body, every one of them, just as
  he wanted them to be. If they were all one part,
  where would the body be? As it is, there are
  many parts, but one body. I Cor 12 14, 17b-20
  

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Cunchibamba, EcuadorMarch 2005
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Sion Church North Park Seminary

• Working Together
• Gracious Hospitality
• Unexpected Health Mission Opportunities
• Making Connections with brothers sisters in
  Christ

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A team is created Oaxaca, Mexico August 2006
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Semillas de Salud Seeds of Health

• Working with the church to improve the health of
  the community

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Semillas de Salud

• Working with the church through pastoral support
• Health screening anemia hearing, vision
• Teaching about healthy snacks
• Working with local department of health
• Oaxacans teaching U.S. teams demonstrating
  servant leadership

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I may have insight into the causes of poverty
and have analyzed the structure of society. I
may have a degree in development economics and
faith in the possibility of change, but if I do
not have love in my heart for the people I serve
I will be written off as just another expert who
really knows nothing of the life of the poor.
I may live in the village of the slum amongst
the people and give them all my goods, I may even
die there of malnutrition or diarrhea, but if I
do not do it with a loving spirit I might as well
not have gone. Love heals, cares, conquers and
lasts through time and eternity. It is the
worlds most precious gift Give Love.
Quoted in Best Practices for Short-Term
Healthcare Missions, Strengthening the Local
Church
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Burkina Faso, October 2007 North Park Seminary
Local Partners
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Missions Ministry in AfricaCourse Objectives

• Become spiritually formed through a missiological
  reflection on faith, personal character,
  self-care, leadership roles, and personal gifting
  in the context of a multi-cultural environment.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the physical,
  social, emotional and spiritual dimensions of
  poverty in the Third World, and specifically in
  the local context of Burkina Faso.
• Understand the principles of transformational
  development, as a process that affects the well
  being of the whole person and his/her community.
• Identify assets contributing to community well
  being in Burkina Faso as well as issues that
  diminish community well being.
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Receiving the Gift of Hospitality
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Short Term Healthcare Missions

• Adequate engagement for partnership
• Do no harm
• Follow up
• Sustainability
• Does community benefit justify cost?

• Learning about health from other cultures
• Seeing God at work around the world
• Catching a vision for long term missions
• Transformation
• Receiving hospitality from strangers

• Challenges

• Opportunities

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Online Resources

• Best Practices Short Term Healthcare Missions
  http//csthmbestpractices.org/
• New Paradigms in Christian Health Ministries
  http//healthcaremissions.org/Crossnetworkjournal.
  html by Dan Fountain, MD, MPH
•  Global Health Outreach http//www.cmda.org/AM/Tem
  plate.cfm?SectionGlobal_Health_Outreach
• Nurses Christian Fellowship http//www.ncf-jcn.or
  g/missions/main.html

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Books

• Livermore, D. (2006). Serving with Eyes Wide
  Open Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural
  Intelligence. Grand Rapids Baker.
• Myers, B. (1999). Walking with the Poor.
  Maryknoll, NY World Vision.
• Richter, D. (2008). Mission Trips that Matter.
  Nashville Upper Room.
• Tazelaar, G. (2004) Caring Across Cultures
  Preparing for Effective Missionary Nursing.
  Madison, WI. NCF Press.