Many Furman students are interested in pursuing a career in medicine so that they can then participate in Medical Missions. In many cases you need to be either in medical school or have already attained you medical degree. However, there are ways that you can participate during your undergraduate years at Furman. One of the best ways to become involved is through the Collegiate Educational Service Corps (CESC). The Collegiate Educational Service Corps is part of Furman University's Student Center Program. CESC began 31 years ago under the leadership of six students. During the first year, 75 students worked in 18 agencies; last year well over 1,500 students participated in some phase of CESC's program in 80 agencies. In two previous years, Service Corps has been named as one of four finalists in the National Center for Voluntary Action's annual award in "recognition of outstanding volunteer service and achievement." There are other local organizations like Hands on Greenville (HOG) that offer you a chance to volunteer your time and skills to make the Greenville committee a good place to live.
To find out more about Medical Missions I recommend looking at the Missions Web Site for Duke University Medical School. This link is a starting point for several pages pertaining to medical missions.
General Web Pages Dealing With Medical Missions:
- Mission Finder: web page dealing with locating mission trips
- Open Directory: a listing of other web pages dealing with medical missions
- Abilene Christian University: medical mission page for ACU with names, addresses, and e-mails for different mission groups.
Specific Web Pages Dealing With Medical Missions
To learn more about medical mission you will find listed alphabetically below some links to national organizations involved in the mission field.
- Amazon Medical Missions: Amazon Medical Missions is a non-profit, Christian Organization providing free, full-time health care to the people of the many pueblos on the Nanay, Itaya and Amazon Rivers of Peru.
- American Leprosy Missions: Founded in 1906, American Leprosy Missions (ALM) provides care to people around the world with leprosy and disabilities. ALM is a non-denominational Christian ministry of hope and restoration for those suffering with the disease. The ministry now supports more than 150 projects in 24 countries.
- Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International: Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International is a non-profit organization established on Baptist beliefs for the glory of God. The Mission seeks to provide free medical and dental care to the impoverished people of the remote villages of Third World nations, and through education, teach preventative measures to be taken to avoid disease and death.
- Canvasback Missions, Inc., Pacific Medical Missions: Canvasback Missions, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization founded in 1981 to serve remote Pacific islands with needed health care and health education.
- Catholic Medical Mission Board: Since its founding in 1928, the Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) has been the only Catholic-sponsored, nonprofit, US-based private voluntary organization that acquires and transports medicine and health care supplies to the poor in developing countries worldwide.
- Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH): The mission of Christian Connections for International Health is to promote international health and wholeness with a Christian perspective. CCIH provides field-oriented information resources and a forum for discussion, networking, and fellowship to the spectrum of Christian organizations and individuals working in international health.
- Christian Medical and Dental Society (CMDS) and Global Health Outreach: the mission of Global Health Outreach is to provide opportunities for CMDS members, their families and associates to serve Christ, to share Christ and to grow in Christ. This translates into the three-fold purpose of ministering physically and spiritually to needy people, and ministering to the spiritual needs of our teams.
- Christian Medical Missions, Inc: Taking medical and dental specialists to those in need in all parts of the world as an expression of Christian discipleship and humanitarian concern.
- Dayspring Outreach Ministries: Dayspring Outreach Ministries was created to minister Christ's love and His kingdom to
- Doctors Without Borders: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the world's largest independent international medical relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization.
- Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation: Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation is an effort on the part of health professionals and other lay members of the Episcopal Church to organize and augment the support of our medical missionaries as they deliver medical and spiritual aid in mission stations of
- Feed The Children: Feed The Children is a nonprofit, Christian, charitable organization providing physical, spiritual, educational, vocational/technical, psychological, economic and medical assistance and other necessary aid to children, families, and persons in need in the United States and internationally.
- Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME): FAME's purpose and mission will be accomplished through providing medical facilities, medicines and medical equipment and mobilizing medical personnel and evangelistic teams to the poorest of the poor around the world.
- Heal the Nations Christian Medical Missions: a Christian medical missions organization whose vision is to improve the health of underdeveloped communities throughout the world, while sharing the love of Christ.
- Health Care Ministries: Health Care Ministries (HCM) is the Assemblies of God Worldwide Medical Missions Outreach, a ministry of the Division of Foreign Missions.
- HMT International: HMT International is a medical/dental mission opportunity sponsored by the Yakima, Washington Free Methodist Church. For two weeks, several times each year, teams of fifteen to twenty-five people travel to third world countries to deliver health care to the underprivileged.
- International Aid: International Aid is a tax exempt, 501 (c) 3 organization, incorporated by a group of Christian businessmen who have a passion for providing goods and resources to Christians involved in relief and missionary activities. From their 100,000 square-foot facility in Spring Lake, Michigan, they distribute material goods, especially pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, to people in need in over 170 countries.
- International Medical Corps: International Medical Corps is a non-profit humanitarian relief organization whose mission is to save lives and relieve suffering through health interventions and medical training that build local capacity and self-reliance in war-torn and impoverished regions of the world.
- Lutherans in Missions: Lutherans in Medical Missions (LIMM) is an association of Lutheran health care professionals and lay persons who are committed to the support of Christ's healing ministry throughout the world by prayer and promotion; by assisting the identification, recruitment, evaluation and sending of medical personnel; by the assessment of mission sites and opportunities.
- Medical Ambassadors International: Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, Medical Ambassadors International (MAI) recruits, trains, and supports national leaders among developing people to take responsibility to reach their own people physically and spiritually. Committed to an integrated ministry, MAI trains nationals in basic preventative and curative medical care, as well as training them to evangelize and disciple their neighbors. The results are healthier families, more self-reliant communities, and stronger churches -- new and existing.
- Medical Missionary Association: Mobilizing Christian Health Professionals to serve Christ and the Church in Developing Countries
- Mercy Ships: Mercy Ships utilizes ocean-going vessels to bring physical and spiritual healing to the poor and needy in port cities around the world. Mercy Ships encourages societal change by following Christ's example, mobilizing volunteers to serve others through medical care, relief, community and church development, proclamation and training.
- Mercy and Truth Medical Missions: Mercy & Truth Medical Missions prepares and produces medical teams of both professional and non-professional persons to provide medical care in clinic settings to developing countries lacking adequate medical provisions for their population.
- Mission of Mercy: A non-profit organization of Doctors, Nurses and Medical
Personnel working with other volunteers who bring relief, medical attention, education and hope to peoples of underdeveloped countries. - Tsu-Chi International Medical Missions Association: is formed by a group of health care professionals under Buddhist Tzu-Chi Compassion Relief Foundation head quartered in
- Volunteers in Medical Missions: Ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of children & adults in developing countries throughout the world. Providing opportunities for Christian medical professionals and other volunteers to experience missions first-hand.
- World Medical Missions: World Medical Mission, the medical ministry of Samaritan’s
Purse, was founded in 1977 to help open the door to the Gospel in Third World countries through quality health care. By placing Christian physicians in voluntary, short-term service and sending critically needed equipment, we strive to bring patients
at remote mission hospitals to the healing of the Great Physician. - Yeshua Medical Ministries: Yeshua Medical Ministries is committed to sharing the love of Yeshua (Jesus) through medical missions around the world.