CMDA | Sanders Moldova

When: April 15 - 26, 2010

Where: Moldova

Who: Primary Medicine & Dentistry, Pharmacy, Physical Therapists, Nurses, Logistics (non-medical volunteers) 1 - 2 Pastors (to take an active part in the Spiritual aspect of the team and work with the National Partners/Spiritual Counseling)

Status: Accepting Applications

Special Travel Announcement: All participants must travel to/from Moldova as a group. No deviations in travel will be allowed without prior approval from GHO Director.

Project fees: $2,000 plus international airfare (subject to change)

Team leader: Andy Sanders, MD

To read Dr. Sander's Biography Click here.

Country Information: Evangelical Christians in Moldova number less than 1% of the population in a country where the Communist government was reelected in September 2001. The Evangelical Christian churches, though few, are usually strong in their faith and commitment. They lack discipleship and training in how to reach out to their communities with the Gospel.

Trip Details: This trip will involve various aspects of ministry. We will work in villages where local missionaries are serving to establish churches and help them grow. Each clinic is opened to the entire community as a ministry of Christ's love and compassion, and as a demonstration of practical Christian concern on the part of the local Christian community (sometime a very small number).

Our ministry to the people of Moldova will include many of the following types of outreach: medical clinics, dental clinics, including children’s fluoride treatments, eye-glass clinics, children’s ministry, ministry in prisons, orphanages, and homes, door-to-door evangelism, preaching, opportunities to speak at colleges and universities, among other opportunities. Clinics are conducted in a village home, school, church building or community center. They are always very humble places, but the local Christians do a good job of seeing that they are clean and sufficiently well lit (which sometimes means we must work by a window or outside in the sun!).

Our goal is to reach those who come with the gospel. As patients and their families wait to see the doctor or dentist, the Gospel is presented in the street, through testimonies, or personal one-on-one evangelism. The visiting doctors also teach the gospel and pray with their patients. Many have come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior through such clinics.

Our work will include opportunities to encourage the local church. We will also work closely with interpreters, a number of whom may not have heard the Gospel before working with the visiting missionaries from the US.

Join Global Health Outreach, in proclaiming God’s glory among the Moldovan people as we perform medical and non-medical outreach in the city of Chisinau and the surrounding villages in support of the local church planters. Flexibility and teachability are key.

These ministries are a part of our ongoing effort to reach the least-reached, and to equip them to reach the un-reached for Jesus Christ.

If you are a teacher, doctor, dentist, nurse, pastor, homemaker, retiree, student, or person of any vocation (over 18 years of age) whose life has been transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, you are qualified! We extend a warm invitation for you to join us.

For more information on the Moldovan culture, history, and geography, copy and paste this link into your web browser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

From Team Leader Andy Sanders: "Moldova is an extremely impoverished eastern European country, just emerging from decades of communist rule. The church there is young, but vibrant, bold, and exciting to partner with. Our ministry to the physical needs of these people will be done in partnership with local churches, having as the main focus the spiritual healing that is the people's true need.

”Our ministry will be in different rural villages where the gospel has not yet reached, as well as in a prison, and in an asylum for abandoned and handicapped people. We will do medical and dental clinics, optometry, children's ministry and pastors training. As always, the need for pharmacists, nurses, students, and logistic people are essential for the ministries that we have planned. At the completion of the trip, our team will spend one day in Prague (or another vacation city) to relax, and process the lessons the Lord has for us individually from the trip.

"This promises to be an exciting opportunity to represent the Gospel to many Moldovan village dwellers. We look forward to what God will do, as we anticipate your involvement. Moldova truly is a frontier. There are so many opportunities. God is at work and we are so thrilled to have the privilege of serving at His side in Moldova."

Vaccination Information: Wondering what immunizations you’ll need for the mission trip? Please refer to the Centers for Disease Control website.

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