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Africa Inland Mission International, a company limited by guarantee (04598557), a registered charity in England and Wales (1096364) and a charity registered in Scotland (SC037594) Registered Office: Halifax Place Nottingham NG1 1QN.

Who are Africa InlandMission?

Founded in 1895, Africa InlandMission is an evangelical,interdenominational organisationwith the goal of seeing ‘Christ-

centred churches among all African peoples.’Serving in over 23 countries across Africa,and ministering to Africans living in Europe,we work in partnership with the AfricanChurch to reach Africa’s unreached peopleswith the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Mission and health care At AIM we long to see Health Professionalspractising, modelling and mentoringcompetent, compassionate medicine, butdoing so in places where they will inuenceUnreached People Groups (UPG) for Christ.Te need for this kind of health ministry iseverywhere – we don’t aspire, however, totrying to meet that need just anywhere, butmore strategically in UPG territory (directlyor indirectly).

People groups in Africaare unreached withthe gospel.

Health careprofessionals, areoften privileged toshare in people’s mostcritical life events:

birth, illness anddeath.

Most of theunreachedpeople inAfrica live

in areaswhere there’s nochurch or healthcare provider.

Christ-centred churches among all African peoples aimeur

Health careAfrica Inland Mission Opportunities

What does health care and mission look like?Te church/mission hospital paradigmis less applicable these days than in thepast; alternative models are increasinglyappropriate. Tis might involvepartnerships with governments or otherNGOs, basic community health work or avariety of creative alternatives.

Often it’s appropriate to go to a place, livethere and gure out, in conjunction withthe local community, how to be involvedafter one arrives. Te idea that you cantake a pre-determined programme or planand simply implement it may exist in thepopular Western mindset (all these needypeople need the help that we can offer), butit’s not a modus operandi that we treasure;we aspire to more than simply doing thingsto/for people and communities.

AIM exists to establish Christ-CentredChurches Among All Africa Peoples …willyou join us in this work as you share God’slove through discipleship and health care?

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Graham & Fiona are healthcare professionals working in aCreative Access Nation…For many years health careprofessionals wishing to be

involved in cross-cultural mission in Africa have been encouragedto partner with church healthcare providers. Personally, we havehad the privilege of serving in thechurch sector for over 20 yearsand we continue to endorse itseffectiveness. However, severalyears ago we began to questionwhether this is the only modelto follow. If we limit ourselves toworking through church healthproviders we limit ourselvesessentially to those areas where

the church is both relativelystrong and established longenough to have a health carework. Unsurprisingly, most of theunreached people groups are in

areas of Africa where there isno church and no church healthcare providers. These peoplesare mainly in Islamic CreativeAccess Nations (CANs). Shouldwe therefore leave the taskof reaching the unreached to

church planters? Does it meanthat there is no place for healthcare professionals in churchplanting? Should we considergiving up our health professions topursue church planting activities?However, most of these areas arealso the places with the greatesthealth care needs in Africa.

So is being a health care providermerely an entry ticket to allowus to proclaim the gospel? Most

assuredly not. As health careprofessionals, we are in a privilegedposition of sharing people’s livesfrom a position of trust duringtheir most critical life events:

birth, illness and death. As wehave accepted Christ as Lordof our lives, surely he is Lord ofour personal and professionalrelationships too? Therefore, our

job is rstly to ensure that all ourrelationships reect Jesus anddraw people to him. Furthermore,we have the ability to bless peopleand communities by serving them,for example by helping to reducematernal mortality, as we workwithin the framework of thelordship of Christ – the kingdomperspective. Whether it is withpatients, colleagues, neighboursor our own families, Christ-likerelationships are the means ofallowing the liberating power of

the love of God to transformlives and communities. We cantherefore proclaim with ouractions, our lives and our wordsthat Jesus is Lord.

Interestedin serving?

If you’re interested in sharing God’slove through discipleship and healthcare, rst talk to your church leaders

and then one of AIM’s mobilisers, toexplore God’s call to use your health

care skills and take his gospel to theunreached peoples of Africa.

How can I get involved?

ElectivesWe provide medicalelectives for those

wanting to serve in African hospitals andhealth clinics, to helpbring physical healingand to witness to theirfaith in Christ.

Short-TermIf you’re looking tospend between 3-12months using yourskills in Africa, thenSynergy, our Short-

erm Programme, canhelp. aking a yearout, a career break,early retirement, or just simply wanting tooffer up time to serve

God, you can applyeither as an individualor as a team of two ormore.

Long -Term12 months to a lifetime ...if God iscalling you to use yourmedical skills amongthose who have notyet heard about Jesus,then we’d love topartner with you andyour church for the

long haul. As a trained

medical professional,you could work in alocal hospital, ruralclinics, a children’s

home or give trainingto others.

We believe thatpeople’s greatestneed is Jesus, and weexpect that, howeverlong you’re in Africa,alongside meetingphysical needs, youwould use any givenopportunity to share

the hope of the gospel.

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