The Adventist Churchs Experience in Partnerships for Health and Wholeness

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The Adventist Churchs Experience in Partnerships
for Health and Wholeness

• To Make Man Whole

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Brief history of Adventist health work

• Loma Linda School of Medical Evangelists-1906
• Mission To participate with Jesus Christ in His
  ministry to make man whole by bringing health,
  healing, wholeness, and hope to humanity through
  education,health care and research as we serve
  local, national and international communities

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The World Divisions of the SDA Church
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The Missionary Era

• Africa mostly rural hospitals
• Malawi Zimbabwe Chad
• Zambia Lesotho Nigeria
• Kenya Madagascar Liberia
• Uganda Rwanda Togo
• Tanzania Djibouti Ghana
• Ethiopia Cameroon Botswana
• Asia/Pacific urban hospitals
• China
  India South Korea
• Philippines Pakistan Japan
• Indonesia Nepal Taiwan
• Malaysia
  Australia Thailand
• Singapore New Zealand PNG
• Solomon Islands

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• Europe
• Germany Switzerland
• England
• Norway
• Sweden
• Americas
• USA Paraguay
• Canada Brazil
• Peru Ecuador
• Nicaragua Haiti
• Argentina Jamaica
• Chile Guyana

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Characteristics of the Missionary Era

• Establishments of new institutions
• Long term service periods
• Budgets fully funded
• Training of national staff
• Relations with governments

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The end of the colonial era

• Nationalization
• Lack of senior national staff (e.g. physicians)
• Subsidies and budgets
• government
• church
• fee for service
• Competition from new private hospitals

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The role of the General Conference

• Deferred mission appointment program
• Recruiting from less expensive divisions
• South America
• Asia
• Training in local institutions
• Adventist Health International (AHI)
• management and leadership training of fledgling
  institutions
• Africa, South America, Indian sub-continent