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Merger with Christian Medical Fellowship
In early April, 2004, MMA HealthServe will be no-more, and in its stead will be
HealthServe, a ministry of
Christian Medical Fellowship. A decision to merge MMA and CMF was made over a year ago, and after much prayer and discussion, we believe that the new ministry within CMF will be even stronger than before.
MMA and CMF have been close partners for years, sharing projects, staff and vision for a large part of the existence of both bodies. Indeed, most of MMA’s major work in the last decade has been directly in partnership with CMF (such as the residential refresher course, elective preparation days, and many of our publications). We have shared our Medical Director Peter Armon with CMF, and before that, the role of MMA General Secretary and CMF Overseas Support Secretary were joint posts for over a decade.
In the new set up, the current overseas work of CMF will now expand to include all that MMA is involved with – including working with Christian health professionals of all disciplines. There will be a full time staff member working primarily with the non-medical professionals and students, as well as the Overseas Support Secretary and a Personal Assistant/Administrator for both posts.
HealthServe magazine will cease publication. The Spring 2004 edition marks the end of over a century of MMA’s magazine under its different names and formats. However, the wealth of articles and reports from the front line of healthcare mission will continue to be published through the CMF magazine ‘Triple Helix’, through the HealthServe website, and through other publications. The vacancies bulletin and prayer letter will continue to be published, with some refinements.
The HealthServe website will remain, with a new look, and some new sections, but essentially with the same range of resources and information that currently exist. It will now become the overseas mission site for CMF. The email vacancy update service will still be operational, as will the other e-mail alerts, vacancies and elective pages and the HealthServe pages.
However, with all that will stay the same, and all that will change, we primarily see this merger as the start of something new. So many people had independently come to us with the idea of a merger over the past eighteen months, and so many other developments were happening all around us that we could see quite clearly that God was pointing both MMA and CMF in this direction for a reason.
After one hundred and twenty six years, it is in many ways sad to be laying MMA as a separate entity to rest, but the vision and spirit that launched the organisation in 1878 is still very much alive. It may have a new organisation around it, but at its heart is still the vision to extend God’s Kingdom through encouraging Christian men and women in the healing caring professions to take their skills and their faith to wherever the need is the greatest. We hope that you will want to join us prayerfully in fulfilling that vision.
Our new contact details from April 2004 will be:
CMF
Partnership House
157 Waterloo Road
London
UK,
SE1 8XN
Tel: +44 [0]20 7928 4694
Fax: +44 [0]20 7620 2453
Email: healthserve@cmf.org.uk
Website: http://www.healthserve.org
