Team
Mission Trips

Are you able to help EMAS fulfill its vision?

Perhaps EMAS can help you go where God is leading you.

For more information on Team Mission Trips, Click Here.

Would you be willing to help in medical emergencies overseas?

EMAS is putting together a Disaster Relief Team able to respond to situations overseas where medical aid is needed. A Committee has been formed to drive the planning work and is being advised by Daren Darbyson of PEI, who served as a Search and Rescue Technician before retiring from the Armed Services in 2006.

We envisage a team of medical personnel which would be fielded within a few days of a disaster occurring. Typically, disaster relief takes place in three phases: (i) Immediate Life-Saving; (ii) Stabilization; and (iii) General Recovery. We believe that we could make the most valuable contribution in the Stabilization phase. While we would try to respond to situations in any country, the relationships that we have developed over many years of fielding medical teams would lead us to focus particularly on those countries where we have established relationships and experience.

Because of our small size and relative inexperience, we will work in partnership with other organizations. We have now entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Medical Teams International (MTI) of Portland, Oregon, to collaborate on Disaster Relief work. They have a wealth of experience in this area and their mission, vision and values are very closely aligned with ours.

We envisage fielding doctors, nurses, grief and spiritual counselors, all of whom would receive training before mobilization. For more information, see www.emascanada.org/disasterrelief_MTI.htm

Thank you for your willingness to undertake Disaster Relief work.

Michael Wills
Executive Director
EMAS CANADA


Tammy Teske
Manager, Disaster Relief
Medical Teams International
Tel: 503-624-1000