The first Comprehensive Health Ministry and the second Medical Missionary Training in Mongolia were held at Mongolia Mission (MM) from May 27 to 29, 2015. Dr. Barbara Choi, health ministry director of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD), served as a trainer, and Enkhbayar Mishigdorj, MM health coordinator, worked with her as a translator.
“Every church a community health center; every member a health minister” is the goal of comprehensive health ministry. The Medical Missionary Training certification program is divided into three stages:
1) The Basic Medical Missionary Training Certificate is designed for lay people who are interested in serving their community as medical missionaries by acquiring basic Bible and health knowledge and skills to relieve simple aches and pains and bring people to Jesus, the great physician for holistic healing.The duration of the training is three days or twenty hours. There were 40 participantsat this level.
2) The Intermediate Medical Missionary Training Certificate includes detailed Bible study training, emotional health awareness, cooking school, exercise program, weight management, stress management, and proposal writing skills.
3) The Advanced Medical Missionary Training Certificate requires CPR and a First-Aid certificate from a local health organization. Participants are commissioned to plan and implement a community service project. When the projects are successfully carried out and evaluated by the local pastor and health ministries director from the Mission, the participant who has finished the previous two levelswill receive the Medical Missionary Community Service teacher certificate from the NSD.
Comprehensive Health Ministry and Medical Missionary Training are modeled after Jesus’ example. They are about alleviating people’s pain and suffering in this sin-sick world and bringing people to Jesus.
“Christ’s method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Savior mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, ‘follow Me’”(Ministry of Healing 143).