Hello HANDS Partners:
This is to update you on the mission to the islands of Antigua & Barbuda - a small Caribbean nation-state. As many of you know HANDS International will partner with the Caribbean Union Conference in this major Health Summit during the week of August 17 to 24. This service will integrate a program of intense Healing with intense Teaching.
The Hands team of 59 health professionals, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Reynold Agard, includes 18 specialist physicians, as well as nurses, social workers, therapists, etc. In collaboration with the government department of health, this team will focus on doing specialized medical procedures needed on the islands, as well as on general health evaluations and screening. Arrangement has also been made for selected ones to make presentations at the medical school and provide continuing education to local physicians.
While all these community activities are taking place, health delegates from throughout the Southern and Eastern Caribbean will convene at the Jolly Beach Resort to participate in seminars, workshops and plenary sessions throughout the week. Under the leadership of Pastor Alexander Isaacs, Health Ministries Director of the Union, this component will be the educational hub of the health summit. Special contributors will include Drs. Hans Diehl, Hildemar Dos Santos, Fred Hardinge, the dean of Loma Linda University's School of Public Health, and many others. I have been invited to lead out in the seminar on Forgiveness & Wellness. The Prime Minister and several other local leaders are expected to participate in the opening exercises.
In terms of number of volunteers, diversity of activities, anticipated impact on local health care and on society in general, this summit is certainly the most ambitious event our unpretentious organization has undertaken. But we do it at great cost to ourselves because our planet is so broken and we have been commissioned to serve as conduits of healing grace to its peoples.
Some of you who have not been able to go on missions such as this one have surprised us with the depth of your commitment to this cause that is so much bigger than ourselves. Thanks so much for your prayers and the good will you have shown all along the way. As we venture out in faith, and with such a large group of professionals traveling and having to adapt, with little preparation, to very different cultural ways, we especially need your prayers that no accident or untoward incident will arise to cause undue danger or distress.
Blessings to all.
Sincerely
Hedrick J. Edwards, President
Health and Development Services, International
This is to update you on the mission to the islands of Antigua & Barbuda - a small Caribbean nation-state. As many of you know HANDS International will partner with the Caribbean Union Conference in this major Health Summit during the week of August 17 to 24. This service will integrate a program of intense Healing with intense Teaching.
The Hands team of 59 health professionals, under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Reynold Agard, includes 18 specialist physicians, as well as nurses, social workers, therapists, etc. In collaboration with the government department of health, this team will focus on doing specialized medical procedures needed on the islands, as well as on general health evaluations and screening. Arrangement has also been made for selected ones to make presentations at the medical school and provide continuing education to local physicians.
While all these community activities are taking place, health delegates from throughout the Southern and Eastern Caribbean will convene at the Jolly Beach Resort to participate in seminars, workshops and plenary sessions throughout the week. Under the leadership of Pastor Alexander Isaacs, Health Ministries Director of the Union, this component will be the educational hub of the health summit. Special contributors will include Drs. Hans Diehl, Hildemar Dos Santos, Fred Hardinge, the dean of Loma Linda University's School of Public Health, and many others. I have been invited to lead out in the seminar on Forgiveness & Wellness. The Prime Minister and several other local leaders are expected to participate in the opening exercises.
In terms of number of volunteers, diversity of activities, anticipated impact on local health care and on society in general, this summit is certainly the most ambitious event our unpretentious organization has undertaken. But we do it at great cost to ourselves because our planet is so broken and we have been commissioned to serve as conduits of healing grace to its peoples.
Some of you who have not been able to go on missions such as this one have surprised us with the depth of your commitment to this cause that is so much bigger than ourselves. Thanks so much for your prayers and the good will you have shown all along the way. As we venture out in faith, and with such a large group of professionals traveling and having to adapt, with little preparation, to very different cultural ways, we especially need your prayers that no accident or untoward incident will arise to cause undue danger or distress.
Blessings to all.
Sincerely
Hedrick J. Edwards, President
Health and Development Services, International
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