Breakout 4, Saturday, Feb. 25 2:15pm

Steve has been the Executive Director of Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) since 2007. He has been involved inchurch planting and Christian leadership development in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Southern and Central Africa, India and Central America. In 1993, he founded City Builders Youth Organization, a youth-based Christian community development organization in urban Memphis, Tennessee. “There is no great field of need or opportunity than among the underserved. Christian healthcare to the poor is a major key in helping the church to break out of its bubble and reconnect the world with the message of Christ and His kingdom.” In addition to his work with CCHF, Steve and his wife Victoria continue to work with urban youth in a under-resourced area of Memphis. They have two grown daughters and a foster son, all of whom love Jesus and are committed to serving Christ by serving others.

Just like in medicine, risks and benefits are constantly being evaluated. Let me help you do that if you are teetering between serving vulnerable populations close to home or abroad! Learn how to decipher when the Holy Spirit is moving in your life and medical practice as you step out in faith to help others.

Matthew 21:22 - And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.

Luke 1:37 - For nothing will be impossible with God.

2 Corinthians 5:7 - For we walk by faith, not by sight.

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Dr. Zamora currently works as the Director of Inter-Professional Education at UCR School of Medicine and is clinical faculty. She is clinically a certified physician assistant (PA-C) and has a Doctorate of Health Science in Global Medicine from AT Still University. She has seven years of teaching experience in classroom settings as well as five years in higher education and as a clinical preceptor. She trained in medicine at the University of Southern California (USC), Keck School of Medicine, Primary Care Physician Assistant Program. She has clinical experience in pediatric, family and urgent care medicine and she currently works at Upland Medical Center. After precepting and guest lecturing for USC, she went on to help develop the PA program of California Baptist University (CBU MSPAS) from August 2015 through July 2020 as a founding faculty member. She coordinated/interviewed all guest lecturers, new faculty and personally taught across most of the clinical courses (especially in the clinical medicine and clinical skills courses, as well as women's health, pediatrics, pharmacology and research). She also designed and executed the live model exam-program, OSCE exams, simulations, hands-on workshops and incorporated inter-professional education (IPE) and inter-professional practice at CBU and the University of La Verne. She continues to love teaching in the classroom and out in the field, especially taking students out of their comfort zones to various street medicine sites and many outreaches.

Passionate for God? Dynamic Christian leader? Destined for missions? Yet struggling with sin, addiction and lust... how do we find a way forward? Come hear stories of real people who had these deep callings to follow God and yet wrestled with personal struggles and how they found a new freedom.

Dr. Mitchell Schoen has experienced deep healing and freedom from addiction, first hand. Now, however, he has the joy of seeing God give that freedom to others. He serves as an addiction medicine consult physician and has been part of support groups as well. Together with his wife, he has a passion for equipping people to love their neighbors. They hold interested in international health and exploring it now! Dr. Robin Schoen and Dr. Mitchell Schoen live in San Bernadino.

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Description: Christians have sought to address the brokenness of our fallen world in various ways. In some cases, we've assumed we have sensible solutions without having meaningful contact with the people we hope to serve or the communities they live in. With rare exceptions, the Christian missionary movement has successfully penetrated new cultures only when faithful disciples have lived among those they're trying to reach. Short term mission trips and occasional outreaches to the needy have their virtues, but they are not a substitute for living in community with the needy.

Rick Donlon grew up in New Orleans and graduated from Texas Christian University in 1986. He completed medical school at LSU-N.O., and a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 1995 he and three medical school classmates opened a primary-care health center in Memphis’ most medically underserved neighborhood. The work eventually grew to include eight health centers, three dental clinics, and a family medicine residency program—providing over 170,000 patient visits annually.

Beginning in 2003, many of the medical and dental providers, including Dr. Donlon, moved into the underserved communities where they work. In those same low-income settings, they’ve planted over a dozen house churches. That house church network has subsequently sent dozens of long-term medical missionaries to North Africa, Centraland South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa.

In September of 2020, Dr. Donlon became the Memphis Area Director for the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (while continuing to practice medicine half time).

Physicians, dentists, and other healthcare workers who’ve trained with Dr. Donlon in Memphis have started or joined similar ministries in low-income communities across the US. Dr. Donlon, his wife Laurie, and their seven children live in the Binghampton neighborhood where he serves as an elder in the house church network.

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Summer Worrall felt called to work at Hope Christian Health Center upon learning of the unique mission. She believes that working at a faith based, non-profit health clinic that provides excellent care physically, emotionally, and spiritually is the one of the many ways Christians are called to serve. Summer aims to serve all patients and employees with dignity, kindness, patience, and most of all, love. Working at HCHC is Summer’s third non-profit job and the first in the medical field. Summer joined the team as an accountant in 2019 and was promoted to Director of Finance in early 2021.

Hailing from South Carolina, Summer loves to visit family and be outdoors. Summer radiates sunshine, kindness, and Christ-like leadership. She and her military husband have two cats and recently welcomed their first child.

The gospel Jesus preached however, is that our value is linked to our identity as sons and daughters of God. Who we are (unique, powerfully creative beings mirroring a Creator Father), who we are created to be (the special gifts we have to use), and who we belong to (to Christ versus to other counterfeit masters), are much more important factors influencing our value and the worth of our work. How can we, as believers of these truths, allow them to permeate and restore our thinking so fully that we begin to truly be the salt of the earth to our healthcare culture? What if our own thinking about our medical work was more influenced by our connection to the Holy Spirit and to those He brings us to love, than by the standard performance measures? Join this discussion to discover that the way to excellence in God's Kingdom is connection and that everyday clinical work could feel radically different for a clinician who values connection and identity affirmation above performance.

A graduate of Texas A&M University, Nurse Practitioner (NP) Adamson holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Nursing. He has more than 5 years of clinical Family Nurse Practitioner experience and is accredited through the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). His clinical areas of interest include pediatric medicine and health promotion. NP Adamson is very personable and intentional when building relationships with those under his care. He enjoys spending time with his wife and four children and is an advocate for foster care and adoption; he is also active in his local church and values his relationship with Jesus Christ. In his free time, NP Adamson enjoys cycling, disc golf, and anything that can get him outdoors.

What is a patient? vs. What does it mean to be a patient?

It's easy to practice healthcare focused on the first question. But perhaps you want to better address the latter question? Come to this talk where we'll address the following 3 questions:

1) How do I integrate my faith into my practice of healthcare?

2) Is it ethical to do spiritual care?

3) How do I start going about spiritual care?

Andrew Wai grew up in Orange County and graduated from UCLA. He completed medical school and residency in combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Med-Peds) at Loma Linda University. He has been a part of CMDA since his first year of medical school. While in medical school, he also got involved with Medical Strategic Network where he did the Whole Person Care Preceptorship which helped him to integrate spiritual care into his practice of medicine. He is currently on faculty at Loma Linda University where he practices as a Primary Care Physician and also does Pediatric Hospital Medicine. He also practices as the Pediatrics Clerkship Director and enjoys getting to train the next generation of healthcare professionals. He also had the privilege of participating in the "Taking a Spiritual History" video in the CMDA Faith Prescriptions Series.

Bob Mason, MDiv is the executive director of Medical Strategic Network,, an organization that equips healthcare professionals and students to practice whole person care with patients. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Bob has spoken on this topic on health science campuses throughout the US and numerous countries abroad.

Stories and words of wisdom from 20 years of medical missions in a restricted access country. The privilege of watching God at work opening doors, giving unique opportunities, supplying needs and changing lives.

Dr. John Tannous is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Medicine. After completing his pediatric residency, John started the American dream of private practice in suburban Phoenix. However, God had other plans and led John, his wife and two young sons to Kunming, China in 2001. Over the next 20 years, the Tannous family served the poor, orphaned, and marginalized in southwest China. They also added 2 daughters, the youngest via adoption. Dr. Tannous spent 2 “sabbatical” years working in inner city Chicago. After navigating the initial COVID pandemic in China, Dr. Tannous returned to the US with his family in 2021. He now works in a Los Angeles FQHC serving a primarily Asian community.

Throughout the years, Jesus has faithfully opened doors and provided unique opportunities to serve and to watch God at work changing lives.

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It is time for us as the church to put on the full armor of God and Pray effectively. Let's receive God's promises through His living word and make it the foundation of our prayer. May we live with joy because we are fighting spiritual battles through the Holy Spirit.

Dr. Adair received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Cal Poly Pomona followed by her Doctor of Osteopathic degree from Western University of the Health Science. She went on to specialize in Ob/Gyn at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Dr. Adair enjoys working at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California and teaching Woman's Health at Cal Baptist University. Her hobbies include walking her Labrador, making bread, and traveling with her family.

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