Wildwood extends health ministry coverage
Wildwood Lifestyle Center & Hospital is expanding coverage of its health ministries to both the Internet and the Middle East.
The College of Health Evangelism at Wildwood now offers a self-paced online course "to give individuals an understanding of God's methods in the treatment of the sick, while at the same time preparing the student to share the truths of the gospel."
Topics covered include prevention, natural remedies, and Bible study. The program is designed to train medical missionaries for service throughout the world. Online students are allowed up to two years to complete three training units, and may also complete a one-week intensive course.
Wildwood has also established an arm called Wildwood Global Health. It plans to focus its efforts on countries inside the 10/40 window, which stretches from 10 to 40 degrees north of the equator (from North Africa through the Middle East, across India, up into China, and eastward to Japan).
Only 2 percent of the 4 billion people who live in the 10/40 window are Christian. Most are Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists, and 80 percent of the world's poorest people live in those regions—many of them living on less than $1 a day, according to a 2004 UN Human Development Report. The medical needs of the people in those areas are immeasurable.
Medical missionaries Lew Keith, Michael Smith and Shawn Jones are planning to travel to the Middle East in early October 2009 to lay the foundation for health evangelism there in 2010.
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