Light and Life – Fall 2015
Take a break! MCCF is hosting a Regional Conference on Saturday, October 17 in Rochester, New York and you don’t want to miss it! Click here for the whole scoop, then sign up and invite your friends. And here’s a PDF brochure you can print and use to help us get the word out! Light and Life – Being living letters in a post-Christian...
Read MoreDr. Sacks dead at 82
Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre neurological conditions, has died. He was 82. Sacks died Sunday, August 30, at his home in New York City after announcing in February 2015 that he was terminally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver. As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold. In his best-selling 1985 book, he described a man who...
Read MoreCCHF Conference
Dr. Mack and I just returned from a very encouraging national conference sponsored by the Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) in Atlanta, Georgia, where we gathered with over 300 health professionals and students who are dedicated to “living out the Gospel through healthcare among the poor.” We heard inspiring plenary speakers, came together for fellowship in large and small groups, attended educational workshops, spent time in prayer, and returned with a renewed enthusiasm and sense of calling for the work we are doing in Rochester. We’re energized to bring a...
Read MoreFocus on Missions
Focus On Missions Are you a health care professional? If so, please consider setting aside the date and signing up now for the MCCF Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 24th, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. We’re looking forward to some inspiring presentations (see list below) so mark your calendars and respond now using the MCCF RSVP page. Drs. Elizabeth & Ethan Helm (Family Medicine & Pediatrics) – Bangladesh Dr. Ellen Dailor (Anesthesiology) – Shisong Hospital, Cameroon Paul Violanti, NP (Jericho Road...
Read MoreLoving Your Neighbors
We hosted a wonderful day-long planning visit/retreat with a group of colleagues from the Jericho Road Community Health Center this past Monday. Starting with a small family medicine practice in inner city Buffalo, NY over 15 years ago, Jericho Road has grown into a rapidly-expanding Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with 2 locations that serves a large population of inner city residents and refugees. Their experience matches ours in so many ways that we’re feeling called to work in mutually supportive ways as we grow and reach out to our respective communities. We’ll keep...
Read MoreWhole Person Care
On September 25-27, 2006 Dr. Dan Fountain conducted a 3-day workshop on “Caring for the Whole Person” at Roberts Wesleyan College. Dr. Morehouse assisted him again this year. The course was open to pastors, counselors, students, and health professionals in our region and offered up to 21 hours of Category I CME credit for physicians who attended. Dr. Fountain is the author of numerous books in English and French on community health, primary health care, and care for the whole person and served as a missionary physician in Kenya for 35 years before returning to the States where he...
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