One of AMEN’s goals is to be an organization committed to facilitating medical evangelism. To that end, we publish a medical evangelism journal.  This journal is not a “newsy” magazine; rather it has the feel of a professional journal with articles that will not only inspire but also educate in the lines of medical evangelism. We have drawn on AMEN members and occasionally non-member “experts” for the articles.  We pray that the journal will be a tool that all of our members can use to help each other become effective medical evangelists and win souls for the Kingdom of God.

News events that our staff, our patients, and our families discuss are God-given opportunities for medical evangelists to spread the gospel. like Jesus, we can take advantage of the “chit-chat” of home and office life to expand the news into an illustration of important spiritual truth. Our staff will repeat our words of truth and for the next few days every time they hear the news they will be reminded of the truth we shared with them.

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Many healthcare providers are concerned over the recent healthcare debate and recent attempts to pass “reform”. Concern is voiced over physician reimbursement and salaries among other issues. Some express concern that people who don’t work or contribute to society are getting a free handout they don’t deserve.

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Near the end of World War II, food supplies became increasingly scarce in the Netherlands. landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, conditions grew worse in the Nazi- occupied Netherlands. The Allies were able to liberate the southern part of the country, but their liberation efforts came to a halt when Operation Market Garden, their attempt to gain control of the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem, failed. After the national railways complied with the exiled Dutch government’s appeal for a railway strike starting September 1944 to further the Allied liberation efforts, the German administration retaliated by placing an embargo on all food transports to the western Netherlands. “By the time the embargo was partially lifted in early November 1944, allowing restricted food transports over water, the unusually early and harsh winter had already set in. The canals froze over and became impassable for barges. Food stocks in the cities in the western Netherlands rapidly ran out. The adult rations in cities such as Amsterdam had dropped to below 1000 calories a day by the end of November 1944 and to 580 calories in the West by the end of February 1945. Over this winter, later known as the Hongerwinter (“Hunger winter”) . . . A total of 18,000 people died during the famine.”1

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Joining the AMEN organization has been, personally, so inspirational. Our office has always been a christian ministry, and to have other professionals of like faith and purpose join in support of each other is wonderfully fulfilling. Attending the annual AMEN conferences gives me renewed spiritual strength. Are we not counseled to press together, especially as the day of the lord approaches? Below, I’d like to share a few simple stories of how the Lord has used my ministry, which I hope can be an inspiration to others. As you read these testimonies, may you reflect on the pathway that has led you and kept you at the feet of lovely Jesus.

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Imagine this scenario. As a doctor, you start developing an emotional attachment to someone of the opposite sex. not sure what to do, you think to yourself: I really need to go home and pray about this to see if the lord wants me to dump my spouse and marry this person. Pretty ridiculous. Some decisions are so clear, so biblical, so obviously a choice between right and wrong, that the only worth while prayer is not about what to do but about asking god for the power and strength to do the right thing, no matter the cost. Of course, not all choices we face are so black-and-white. Sometimes our choices are not moral decisions. How do we know how to make proper choices? What principles can we follow that can help us when we have crucial choices to make?

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When Stephen Arrington, former chief diver and expedition leader for the Cousteau Society, asked me to come to Fiji and take part in mission work there nearly 13 years ago, I agreed in a heartbeat. Service has always been an important part of my life, and I was thrilled to have a new opportunity to share the joy of Christ with others. Yet I was not prepared for the incredible need that awaited me in the form of more than three hundred men, women, and children waiting outside Loma Linda University School of Dentistry’s newly installed dental clinic on the island of Vanua Levu in need of dental care. Many of them were in such pain that they were cradling their cheeks in their hands. While my children played outside with the local children, I immediately set to work. For two weeks, I tried to meet the needs of an ever-growing line of patients suffering from tooth decay, abscesses, and pus-filled infections. By the end of our stay, I had seen over 100 people, but I still had not even made a dent in the line outside my door.

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The devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake which shook Haiti on January 12, 2010, came as something of a baptism by fire for Dr. Carlos Moretta. In an interview with the Medical evangelist Dr. Moretta said, “On January 10, 2010, Amen President, Dr. Phil Mills asked me to fill a new vacancy directing AMEN’s mission outreach, focusing particularly on emergency response. Two days later Haiti happened, and we found ourselves in completely uncharted territory.” AMEN has sponsored a trip to Haiti each of the past two years. Another trip was already planned for 2010. “We just didn’t expect it to be under these circumstances,” said Dr. David Catalano, AMEN’s outgoing medical mission director. Previous medical missionary trips to Haiti were carefully planned and well orchestrated combinations of medical care, health education, and evangelism. The main emphasis under today’s trying circumstances must be the gospel in action more than in word.

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Mission trips. In the last ten years, I have taken a number of students and teachers to the mission field. These trips have been so rewarding that I would be out in the mission field full time if missionary work would pay my student loans. One mission trip in particular was truly life-altering for me. in 2009, a medical professional who was scheduled to go on a GYC sponsored program became ill. I was asked to fill in at the last minute. nothing happens by coincidence for those who believe in God. He definitely had a plan for me to be on this particular trip.

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Dyanabad (thank you) Bangladesh! This was our sentiment as we headed for home in the United States, because, as we learned when we first arrived, mission trips are often more for the ‘healer’ than the healed, learning lessons that change us. This was the third successful trip to Jalchatra, a village in northern Bangladesh, about 6 hours from the capital city of Dhaka. The program is run through a Seventh-day Adventist school in the village, offering a vacation Bible school, health/spiritual education talks, internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Surgery, and Physical therapy. every day, rain and heat, people were lined up as far as the eye could see, and, by God’s grace we saw over 3,300 patients. Yhe trip is organized by Drs. Paul & Janie Yoo from loma linda and Dr. Paul Moskala from Bangladesh. Our team included students, nurses, physicians and dentists (from the U.S.), as well as student volunteers from the Adventist Seminary and college in Bangladesh.

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