What does God expect from us?
Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible, and avoiding the most serious sins—or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it? World Vision U.S. president Rich Stearns tells his story of coming face-to-face with that question nearly 20 years ago in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda. His journey took him from the corner office at one of America’s most prestigious corporations to a life devoted to walking with the poorest of the poor in our world. His story demonstrates how the gospel—the whole gospel—was always meant to be a world-changing social revolution, a revolution that begins with us. Join us for the 2017 M3 Conference.
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2017 M3 Conference Featured on the Christian Post!
Everyone is getting ready for the 2017 M3 Conference! Check out this article that talks about last year’s conference and what you can expect this year! Many thanks to The Christian Post for the feature!
Meet 2017 M3 Conference Speaker Dr. Joy Vonk
Dr. Joy Vonk is a clinician and a clinic manager for Casa El Buen Samaritano, a 501(c) (3) organization that operates a free clinic in southwest Houston providing faith-based healthcare to the low-income and uninsured population of the community.
Dr. Vonk spent six years working in commercialized medicine before she felt God continually stirring her heart towards integrated medical and spiritual care. Presently, Joy is fulfilling this call in an urban missions setting where she is able to deliver medical services with spiritual counseling to the disadvantaged populations of Houston. At Casa she sees and treats patients, oversees patient and volunteer scheduling, manages clinical operations, assists in grant writing and is active in outreach to partnering organizations.
Hundreds have found hope through healthcare as a result of the efforts of Vonk and other doctors like her.
Join Dr. Vonk and many more medical missions professionals and speakers at the 2017 M3 Conference at Lakewood Church in Houston, TX, February 17-18, 2017! Register today!
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Quiet Whispers: Journey from a Call to the Far Side of the Sea
Arianna Shirk is a pediatrician living and working in Kijabe, Kenya. She graduated from Furman University with a major in Perspectives on Poverty and Health, spent a year in Taiwan with the Luce Scholars studying the interaction of culture and medicine.
After medical school at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and a residency and fellowship in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, she moved with her husband and two girls to Kijabe, Kenya with the Samaritan’s Purse Post Residency program.
In Kijabe, she daily takes care of some of the most amazing children in the world and is working to train the next generation of East African physicians to love Jesus and see the possibility in the impossible of every day. She is currently head of pediatrics and working with the University of Nairobi to start the first fellowship in pediatric emergency and critical care medicine in East Africa.
Arianna will be a speaker at the 2017 M3 conference talking about her journey from a call early in life through the long and unpredictable training process and how God gently and insistently led her family to work and live at a missions hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. Register today to attend the M3 Conference.