Mission Partner Highlight - Medical Benevolence Foundation: How spiritual healing is a necessity in medical care

In this episode, you will learn about our Mission Partner, MBF and how Spiritual healing is necessary in medical healing of the body. Our guest is Patrick Coughlin, VP of Partner Engagement. He will share the reason behind the mission and how and why MBF started. About Patrick:Patrick Coughlin was called to Medical Benevolence Foundation (MBF) in May of 2018. As Vice President of Partner Engagement, Patrick is responsible for setting and implementing strategy to connect U.S. partners with overseas partners. He leads an MBF team, which spans coast to coast, engaging churches, foundations, families, and individuals in medical ministry in developing countries.Patrick’s primary functions include communicating the needs, goals, and successes of partners in under-resourced countries, securing support from U.S. partners to meet those needs, leading mission trips, and helping grow the MBF organization.With strong leadership skills in strategic planning, team building, and communication, Patrick was chief executive officer of five chambers of commerce and founded 4ward consulting before joining MBF. His experience in building communities taught him the need to positively impact several foundational issues at once, to build capacity, and to enable populations to seize opportunities. Building sustainable medical ministries through MBF requires the same approach.Patrick, his wife Melanie, and daughter Isabella share their blessings by finding opportunities to serve as the hands of Christ by sponsoring a child in Mali, participating in their church’s sponsorship of a class in Haiti, supporting local churches’ mission events which serve the poor and disadvantaged, contributing to ministries which fight the sexual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking of teen girls, and of course, supporting MBF.How to connect with MBF:https://mbf.org/Support the showSupport us here:https://www.bpcusa.org/financial-ministry/BPC Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/BrentwoodPresbyterianChurch