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By Kim Kubo Caloroso
Social Networking... What is it? Other than it being a time drain, and a way to send eachother virtual messages on Facebook... It is meant to connect with people for a common cause and we are using it to get things done!
The really exciting thing that happened this week putting social networking into action, is that a new website along with Facebook FanPage was created for "Life & Hope for Haiti" and in 72 short hours, we have collected over 35 medical professionals to volunteer for mission relief work!
Check it out:
The Facebook FanPage is:
Life and Hope For Haiti * * Adventist Medical Evangelism Network * AMEN *
Now, thats what I call social networking!
How do you use social media to get things done?
Cruise With A Mission 2010
By Geoff StarrCruise with a Mission, Dec. 12 – Dec. 19, 2010. The Center for Youth Evangelism is holding its third Cruise with a Mission trip! An experience of a lifetime that offers mission work, a cruise and spiritual retreat all wrapped up in one. The ports we will be visiting this year are: Key West, Florida; Falmouth, Jamaica; Georgetown, Cayman Islands; Cozumel, Mexico. The cruise fee starts at $599 per person for this seven-day experience exclusively for young adults ages 18-35. Regular rates are: Cruise fee + $250 until January 31st; Cruise fee + $350 until March 30th; and Cruise fee + $450 until September 10th. For more information call: 269-471-8380 or 800-YOUTH-2U, or email: cwm@adventistyouth.org. Please visit us at adventistyouth.org/CWM to book your Cruise with a Mission!
History of AMEN
By AMEN MessengerAdventist Medical Evangelism Network was formed by a group of physicians and dentists who have a burden to revive medical evangelism and make it an integral part of their profession. Dr. Naren James, AMEN President 2005–2008, was one of the founders. He describes his convictions leading up to the formation of AMEN…
Over the past five years I have gone through a transition as I restudied the gospels. I have been impressed by Jesus’ ministry and personally convicted to emulate it in my personal and professional life. One day during my personal devotion I was impressed that I needed to share my experience with other physicians and create a network to encourage each other to make medical ministry the focus of our profession. I firmly believe that physicians and dentists can make an incredible impact around the world if we truly begin to make medical evangelism the focus of our practices.
The founding physicians and dentists decided to host a luncheon at the 2004 ASI convention focusing on the topic of medical evangelism. The meeting proved to be such a success they decided to meet in February 2005 to discuss the formation of a non-profit organization to train & equip physicians and dentists to be effective medical evangelists. The meeting was to be held at Dr. John Chung’s house in Dalton, Georgia. Soon the number of attendees grew so large the venue had to be changed to Cohutta Springs Ranch. Approximately 50 people attended the meetings at Cohutta Springs where Pastor Mark Finley spoke about what true medical evangelism is. The group was inspired and challenged and unanimously decided to officially form what is now AMEN—Adventist Medical Evangelism Network.
The Lord has really blessed this organization! Since 2005, AMEN has hosted two annual conferences with approximately 220 attendees; coordinated medical clinics for a mission trip to India in collaboration with Maranatha and Amazing Facts; integrated health talks into a large scale evangelistic series in Detroit, Michigan; begun publication of a medical evangelism journal called “the Medical Evangelist” and begun work on health related television programs to air on a variety of television stations with the eventual goal of having its own television station that hosts health and evangelistic programming 24-hour a day, 7 days a week.
Despite its infancy and humble beginnings, we believe God is using AMEN to inspire physicians and dentists in the United States and around the world to focus once again on healing not only the body, but the soul as well.
Mission, Vision & Objectives
By AMEN MessengerMission
The Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN) exists to motivate, train, and equip Seventh-day Adventist physicians and dentists to become effective medical evangelists who will unite with lay people, pastors and church administration in taking the “everlasting gospel” (Rev 14:6-12) to the entire world in these last hours of earth’s history.
Vision
We envision the training of thousands of Seventh-day Adventist physicians and dentists to be effective medical evangelists. These committed, motivated, and consecrated Adventist physicians and dentists will model Christ’s methods of loving service through the ministry of healing which will naturally open hearts to the gospel and the truths of the Bible. AMEN will help cultivate the following essential qualities in each of these physician/dentist evangelists:
- The deep conviction that the healing ministry is a calling from God for His service.
- The belief that the great commission is the privilege and responsibility of every Christian physician/dentist. Therefore each physician/dentist should model their practice after the loving ministry of Jesus.
- An individual integrity which includes a living personal faith, a healthy, temperate lifestyle, and a Christian commitment in the family.
- A familiarity with and desire to follow the divine counsels on medical ministry given in the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy.
- A knowledge and application of practical approaches for spiritual ministry and evangelism in the clinical setting.
Objectives
The following objectives will promote the vision of developing effective physician/dentist medical missionary evangelists:
- Create a society perpetually dedicated and exclusively focused on the above mission
- Hold annual national conferences which will include the following features:
- Inspirational messages to encourage medical evangelism
- Workshops to train medical evangelists
- Seminars to examine the prophetic principles and guidelines of medical evangelism
- Testimonials of effective physician/dentist evangelism
- Networking opportunities for medical evangelism
- Highlight mission needs and opportunities
- Promote the formation of local and/or regional chapters that might provide sources of fellowship, accountability, and training throughout the year.
- Develop a publication dedicated to Medical Evangelism.
- Plan a missionary support service that will especially provide needed spiritual encouragement to foreign medical missionaries.
- Seek to encourage, mentor, and support Seventh-day Adventist medical students and residents in their development as medical evangelists.
- Actively cooperate with the Seventh-day Adventist church and its supporting ministries to foster, promote and stimulate medical evangelism.
2009 AMEN NATIONAL CONFERENCE "Faith in Practice" October 29-November 1,2009
By AMEN Messenger
We hope that you have already made plans to be present at this year’s AMEN conference! We are praying and trusting that the Lord will richly bless all who attend. This year’s theme — Faith in Practice — is expected to combine a high devotional tone with very practical, how-to seminars designed to help you deal with the witnessing challenges and opportunities that confront you in your practice. Speakers include Pastor Dwight Nelson; Pastor Louis Torres, dermatologist (and AMEN president) Philip Mills; cardiologist Daniel Choo; dentist Do Sung Kim; and Joshua Drum, a resident in orthopedic surgery. If you are able to come to AMEN this year, please consider bringing your family as well! Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in America - more than Yellowstone or Yosemite! In this natural setting of unsurpassed beauty, during a weekend focused on hearing the voice of God
personally and professionally, your family can enjoy precious fellowship together away from the usual stresses of life.
President: Phil Mills, MD
By AMEN MessengerPhil Mills, MD recently obtained board certification in dermatology after practicing physical medicine and rehabilitation for many years. He has moved to Grants Pass, Oregon where he joined a dermatology practice.
Dr. Mills has had a passion for medical evangelism since he was a teenager. He felt the call to evangelism when he was 14 reading the book, Evangelism . The call was further focused in college reading the book, Medical Ministry . Throughout his life Mills has found the greatest joy comes from winning souls. Nothing else compares. He believes AMEN will assist us in learning how to reach our colleagues, our staff, our patients, our families, our churches, our communities, the world. His dream is that the Holy Spirit will fall on us and that the journal and the annual meetings will be the spiritual and professional highlight of our year.
Dr. Mills is married to Sherry and they have three children.
Secretary: Raja Tooma, MD
By AMEN MessengerDr. Raja Tooma is board certified in Family Medicine. She currently practices in Fontana, California and serves as Medical Director/President of United FamilyCare.
Dr. Tooma has a passion for Christ and for sharing His love with her patients! She is also dedicated to overseas missions. Dr. Tooma joined the AMEN board in 2006. She was inspired by AMEN's first conference held in San Diego in 2005. Since that time she has been praying with almost all her patients! God has worked many miracles through Dr. Tooma's willingness to follow His leading not only in her personal life but in her professional life as well.
AMEN LLU STUDENT CHAPTER CONFERENCE:
By AMEN MessengerSummary
Nedley, McNeilus, Clark, Tooma, Im, and Youngberg headline power-packed event
“This year’s AMEN LLU Student Conference was characterized by inspiring presentations, solid attendance, and growth in membership,” says chapter president Mark J. Brown (4th year dental). Speakers Plenary sessions were given by Mary Ann McNeilus, MD and Neil Nedley, MD. Breakout presentersincluded Drs. McNeilus and Nedley, as well as Chester Clark, DDS, MPH;
Raja Tooma, MD; Wes Youngberg, Dr. PH; and Pat ri ck I m, DDS.
Presentations may be accessed through www.audioverse.org Attendance This inaugural conference was well attended, averaging 60-80 in the evening meetings and breakout sessions and rising to nearly 200 on
Sabbath morning! New Members According to reports, about 15 students
joined AMEN. The leadership of the AMEN LLU Student Chapter made the courageous, principled decision not to do recruiting during Sabbath hours, which limited the number of new members that might have joined. President Mark Brown is hopeful that next year’s attendance will be larger during sessions outside Sabbath morning. Under Budget It is always a blessing when a project is managed so as to stay within budget. It is my conference came in at 10% under its original budget. Praise God for economically minded student leadership! Adventist Review Article
The Adventist Review requested that an article be written about the AMEN student conference via Dr. Wes Youngberg, one of the conference speakers. Camille Clarke has submitted a short article for the Adventist Review that should appear sometime this summer.
Successful Book Sale: The student chapter was permitted sell at the conference. They were also able to sell some Natural Remedies Encyclopedias at a low price and still make a profit of around $450. This money is slated to help fund the door-to- door ministry and other future activities. Praise God! The leadership of the AMEN LLU Student Chapter wish to express their praise and thanks to God for the financial support, inspiration, and encouragement of the board and membership of AMEN. A solid foundation for future cooperation has been laid at this inaugural student-led conference. May this partnership serve to hasten Christ’s coming!
AMEN to partner with the Southern Union Chapter of ASI
By AMEN Messenger
Over the weekend of April 3-5, 2009 AMEN was given the opportunity to partner with the Southern Union Chapter of ASI at their annual meeting in Dalton, GA. AMEN was invited to present a special seminar track for medical and dental professionals. On Friday morning, dermatologist Phil Mills shared a two part seminar titled, “Reaching the Professional for Christ.” That afternoon, dermatologist John Chung and radiologist Roger Miller spoke regarding “Sharing with Patients and Colleagues.” Speaking personally, these seminars were a blessing. Those who attended gave testimonies regarding the practical relevance of what they heard. In addition, the leaders of the Southern Union ASI chapter plan to incorporate AMEN in their future events. We believe God has led in this partnership!
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