On Tuesday, December 1, we are honored to be able to meet with our very good friend and colleague Dr. Jim Ritchie, a medical missionary at Chogoria Mission Hospital in Kenya.
Dr. Ritchie shared recently how important it is in medical missions to have a solid biblical understanding of healing, illness and death. Equal to this as a health worker is the need to grasp the biblical dynamic between the role of Christian medics and God's sovereign role over all. Both of these things are essential as we pray forward through sustainable health care.
Jim has extensive global medicine experience, including serving at Chogoria Mission Hospital in rural Kenya through World Gospel Mission, since 2014. He has a deep interest in the theology of healing, illness and death, along with preventing moral injury and burnout among medical missionaries. While in Kenya he helped start a Christian Family Medicine residency program and has just graduated the second class of residents. Important to our discussion is that during his tenure the hospital has seen a renewed dedication to its core spiritual mission.
Also in his background is 25 years of service in the U.S. Navy. He was deployed twice to the war in Afghanistan, at the beginning in 2001 and during the Surge in 2009/10. A frequent speaker at the Pentagon, he was Emergency Medicine Residency director for seven years, and on the teaching faculty for 12 years, with numerous teaching and mentoring awards. An interesting bit of personal trivia about Jim is that two of his former residents have become Physician to the President, one was Physician to Congress and one is now Medical Officer of the Marine Corps, Rear Admiral Jim Hancock.
This is a discussion you do not want to miss. Join us on Tuesday night, December 1, 2020, at 8 pm Eastern / 7 pm Central / 5 pm Pacific.
Please have your questions ready for us. We look forward to you connecting with us live via Zoom or on Facebook Live. If you choose to view with Zoom you will need to pay attention to both the login and the passcode included for you below.
Blessings 
E. Andrew Mayo
President and CEO
When: December 1, 2020 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Integrating Faith and Medicine - Reenergizing Medical Missions
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