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"Take My Healing to the Nations." |
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One of the exciting ventures that we are working on at EMAS CANADA is an interdisciplinary healthcare conference in Toronto, October 28 & 29, 2011. Under the theme Take My Healing to the Nations, healthcare workers and students, from medicine, dentistry, nursing and the allied disciplines, will be challenged to advance biblical Christ-centred healthcare in Canada and abroad. Plenary and workshop speakers will promote a Christian holistic approach to healthcare that addresses emotional, social and spiritual needs, as well as the physical. We will examine all the known determinants of health and challenge health practitioners to integrate their Christian faith into their practices, and to think globally. Church leaders will be encouraged to think outside the box for ways the local church can be more effective as a healing community. We are planning inspiring worship and stories for the opening and closing rallies. We have allowed two years to plan this conference well, and to get the absolute best speakers in the field of missions, international health, and biblical healthcare. We are also ensuring that the conference venue has adequate space for exhibitors. We will keep you updated as planning progresses, through EMASsary and our web site. If you, your ministry, or professional association would like to be placed on our mailing list, or would like space as an exhibitor, please call or e-mail the EMAS CANADA office. Disaster Relief We will also be accepting donations for relief work. Thanks for your Support. Hendrik Visser, M.D. |
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Give a Truly The Christmas season is a time of giving and sharing. Please remember the less fortunate at this time of year. Give a gift that will truly make a difference in someone’s life. Give a gift of healing, a gift of life’s most basic necessities. A “Gift of Hope” can change a life and last a lifetime. See the gift-giving opportunities in this issue of EMASsary. Please prayerfully consider making a significant difference in someone else’s life. Give on Honour someone dear to you with a meaningful gift. If you would like to give a gift on behalf of someone else this Christmas, please request a Gift Card when ordering your gift. These gifts are tax-deductible donations, |
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The Vietnam team serves in several provinces, treating thousands of patients, setting up medical clinics, performing eye surgeries, dental care, dispensing medications, eye glasses, food and clothes. The team has sponsored more than 500 heart surgeries for children and there is still a long waiting list. They support a doctor at a charity clinic. They also gave grants to four people to undergo chiropractic training and funded their chiropractic clinic in Battambang, Cambodia. Dr. David Neima |
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Dr. Bill Etzkorn |
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The EMAS team will be teaching community health to pastors in partnership with local health professionals. Pastors are known and respected by their congregation and can We also assist dispensaries, located in a very poor, drought-stricken area, run by two large independent church organizations. Drs. Paul & Debbie Zeni Gift# Z2 Click to give... |
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Malaria is rampant in this region and the team also distributes insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect people from infected mosquitoes. Malaria often causes severe anemia and death in children. Dr. Hendrik Visser |
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Bangula Project Dr. Bob Henderson |
Reaping God's Blessings!
Healing Today... Please send a cheque We thank you in advance |
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There are under-serviced areas in Indonesia where the absence of roads denies people access to even the most basic services such as health clinics and education beyond elementary school. EMAS teams are working to develop a relationship with the medical and dental faculties at the University of Jakarta to bring assistance. Dr. Tim Tam |
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Note from a Student Matthew Billinghurst |
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Yunnan Project Funds are still needed for the medical and community psychiatric care teams and also for cataract surgeries. Caring for needy people changes our lives, as well as theirs. Team Leader |
On-line Newsletter EMASsary is available Thank you for helping |
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EMAS Celebrating The year 2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the first EMAS China West medical mission to Ningxia, which started with three team members. Today the teams consist of close to 50 members. The Ningxia officials have acknowledged that it is because of the love of God and the kindness of Christians, that all this medical aid to Ningxia has been possible. We have indeed "...declared His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all people." (Ps. 96:3)
Over the past 19 plus years, they have also established nine "Living (drinking) Water" projects and 14 EMAS hospitals in this region. |
At the moment, there are two more EMAS hospitals under construction, one in Gansu and another in Ningxia. There are close to 400 team members who have participated in these EMAS China West missions. We have seen many lives changed, Living Water Project Team Leader |
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A small team of 10–12 medical/dental professionals serves factory workers and villagers in the southern part of the province. Healthcare benefits are not available to factory workers and villagers. We try to meet their needs, both physically and spiritually. The team also Training Physicians of Faith is Team Leaders
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Dr. Tom Greidanus Praying for a miracle |
Mercedes was witness to life-changing hip and knee replacement surgeries at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cuenca. She saw how our team enabled people to have surgery and return to productive lives. She prayed that we had something to offer to her brother who had suffered a spinal cord injury. With the help of our physiotherapist, her brother was given leg braces, exercises and medications. They were very grateful and, like all of the patients over the years, they felt their prayers had been answered. The average cost of a hip or knee prosthesis is $2,000. The average salary is less than $200 a month. The generosity of EMAS supporters enables this project to continue. Catherine Turn, R.N. |
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Dr. Pierre J. Plourde |
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Project Mabuhay Dr. Hugh Parsons |
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Our Ugandan journey continues... In our May issue of EMASsary, I talked about an invitation we had received from a small NGO called Rambia, located near Fort Portal in western Uganda. I promised to keep you informed and let you know if we were going to be able to support them. Working with the Rambia staff, the EMAS team saw over 500 patients in two busy weeks. We visited a local school and gave vitamins and de-worming pills to several hundred students. We taught community health workers, and looked into ways of supplying water, electricity and improved sanitation to the Health Centre and neighbouring community. We are also investigating the possibility of manufacturing anti-malaria bed nets locally, in a joint-venture with Rotary. Our full report of the mission, including plans for working with Rambia on improving the health of the local community and information on the funds required, will be posted on our web site shortly.
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Your donations May God bless you richly
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2009 Nov. 4–15: China Guangdong Nov. 8–19: China South Nov. 15–28: China South 2010 Jan. 14–30: Ecuador Feb. 6–14: Haiti Mar. 27–Apr. 11: Russia May 20–Jun. 2: China West May 30–Jun. 10: China South |
Jun. 2–9: China West Jun. 6–19: China South Jul. 4–24: Vietnam Aug. 29–Sep. 12: Malawi Sep. 4–19: Russia Nov. 3–13: China Guangdong |
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News from...the EMAS Board
EMAS is working to improve the quality of care and delivery systems in Kenya, in collaboration with Canadian Baptist Ministries. 
provide community health education and early diagnosis of certain health issues, during visits.
Lifeline Malawi Project
In Malawi, nearly 1 million children are orphaned or homeless. The EMAS team monitors the health of the children at the Bangula mission site of Iris Ministries, home to 54 otherwise homeless children. They assist at local clinics and have left much appreciated supplies and equipment. At the mission’s Bible School, they also teach village pastors disease prevention so that this information will be disseminated in the villages. Funding is needed for equipment and training in local clinics and in hospitals in the Bangula health district. In 2010, EMAS hopes to work alongside doctors from Malawi CMDF in Bangula.
EMAS sponsors mission trips for Christian medical and dental students, to help them find their calling. You can contribute by donating to the Student Mission Fund. Imagine the number of lives that could be touched for God through a young missionary. 
In rural areas along the east coast and the north-east region, the China East Team visits hospitals, clinics and old-age homes. They conduct free clinics for the villagers and donate medicines. Much help is needed with hospital facilities, equipment and skills upgrading. The team shares medical and dental knowledge and provides funding to improve the quality of care.
We have a number of teams in this region, including surgery, dental, medical, psychiatry and ophthalmology teams. We conduct clinics in remote villages and at the local hospital. We treat patients and teach medical students. The dental team visits elementary schools, treating children and teaching them oral hygiene, as most people never see a dentist, in this region. Dental problems are widespread. 
participates in the Family Practice Residents’ Training Program at our Christian partner clinic.
We perform numerous orthopaedic surgeries in Ecuador and also do follow-ups with patients we operated on the previous year. It’s gratifying to see how their lives are completely changed with the increased mobility. The most common surgeries are hip and knee replacements and club feet, often on children. Our dentists and their assistants provide care to poor children in rural schools while we teach at the local medical school. We also donated equipment, so the dentists can assist the poor in Cuenca.
In 2005, the El-Shaddai Primary School was established and now functions parallel to the feeding centre. As of September 2009, enrollment is approx. 130 students, all cramped into a church basement and the adjacent house being rented. Nine teachers and three assistants are now managing the school. They are entirely funded by donor support, seeing as these poor families do not have funds to pay for school fees, books, uniforms, etc. There is no water at the school and an old pit latrine is being used. The El-Shaddai church community is currently drilling a borehole and constructing the infrastructure to provide safe drinking water for the school at a cost of $15,000. Donor support is needed to fund this project.
We speak at conferences, such as the Cuban Christian Healthcare Conference, sharing psychiatric and palliative care developments. We also serve in a number of communities.
to comply with the Canada Revenue Agency's requirements for remitting receipted donations abroad. Then a team volunteered including physicians, a public health nurse, a water and sanitation engineer, and (conflict of interest alert) my wife! At the last minute EMAS CANADA received a bequest which provided sufficient funds for me to go, before the team, to ensure that accommodation, local travel and all necessary arrangements were in place to support the team; and Health Partners International agreed to provide medications to supplement what we could buy locally.
Since our return, we have been blessed with several donations which we remitted immediately to Rambia. The money is to be used to install urgently needed windows for a partially completed maternity ward at the Health Centre. The ward is already in use, but it is the rainy season and the wind is blowing rain onto the patients. Having seen the need—particularly the high incidence of disease and the lack of good facilities—we are even more committed to working with Rambia and its community on a range of health-related issues.
EMAS sponsors medical and dental missions teams, to work in specific locations overseas. New members are always welcome to join these teams. Those approved are sponsored by EMAS. They are expected to raise funds equal to the expenses incurred on their behalf. 
