Health

Dr Douglas Hume is a medical doctor based in Texas. He's done medical missions all over Asia and many countries over many years. He has a heart for evangelism and missions and has a great testimony to share! I had the privilege of travelling with Doug on his recent Phillipines trip, and we saw 930 people come to Christ! They partner with local churches who follow up the new believers and often there are new Bible studies and new Church plants as a result of these missions! Listen in to his story!

Rizsa Albarracin is the director of The Shepherd's Arms Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation in Bohol, Philippines that exists to care for disadvantaged children, empower communities to lift them out of poverty and help them realise God's promises for them. Rizsa was raised in poverty and has an amazing success story. She works for QLD health as a Neuroscientist and regularly takes teams to the Phillipines for medical missions and crusades. Listen in to her story!

Dr Patricia Weerakoon is an Australian Christian sexologist who was born in a Tamil Christian family in Sri Lanka, and grew up on a tea plantation. She is married to Vasantha and they have a son, Kamal, who is a Presbyterian minister. Patricia is a Sexologist, sex educator and writer and was trained in medicine at the University of Sri Lanka and did her postgraduate study in sexology at the University of Hawaii. She retired in 2011 after a 22-year career as an academic at the University of Sydney and for the last 8 years of her time as an academic, she was the director of an internationally recognised postgraduate program in sexual health. Over the years in retirement Patricia followed her passion to educate people of all ages on good holistic sexual health by speaking and writing in the area from a Christ focused Biblical framework. Join Grace Buckman in this interview as we hear more about Patricia's childhood and growing up in a home of faith, her journey into the medical field and practicing as a Christian sexologist, and her years of writing and speaking events.

Dr Martin Nkundeki is a medical doctor in Kampala who, after serving as the Medical Director of Wentz Medical Center, answered the call to become an executive pastor at Gaba Community Church. In this Conversation he shares about there was Witchcraft that was strangling their region, and how the gospel has now transformed their community in every area of life! Matt caught up with Dr Martin in Uganda for this interview, listen in!

Dr. Karen Liddell is an ordained minister and Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor, advanced board certified in Integrated Marriage and Family Therapy, Child and Youth Therapy, Temperament Therapy, and Grief and Loss. Karen started her career as an adult and adolescent therapist in psych and  substance abuse centres and hospitals and after raising her family was called into faith-based counselling and neuroplasticity-focused methods. Karen developed the Brain Retrain™ method which is a simple, easy-to-follow process that gets your mind into agreement with who God says you are and what He says you can do. It results in physiological neurogenesis, renewing your mind's processes and resulting  emotions, actions, and experiences. Karen has also written multiple books and speaks at events across the country. Grace Buckman Spoke with her recently, listen in to her story!

Keren Fuhrmeister is the Hospital director of the African Mercy, the mission hospital ship. The African Mercy is currently in Dock in Dakar Senegal giving life changing free surgical services to the west African nation. Listen in to hear how this amazing ministry brings hope, healing and the love of Jesus to the nations!

Dr. Klaus-Dieter John has worked tirelessly to bring hope to rural Peruvians. He has raised huge amounts of money and awareness for the issue of poor healthcare in Southern Peru, and has used this to build a modern hospital for locals. The hospital, called  - or 'Trust in God' - has served hundreds of thousands of people in the Apurímac region. He shares the journey in this compelling conversation.

Bev McInnes is a Christian Counsellor based in Melbourne. For many years Bev has been passionate about working with individuals and families in the area's of Trauma Counselling, specifically in Sexual, Emotional and Physical Abuse as well as addictions, anxiety, depression and anger resolution. Listen in to her story and how out of her recovery from trauma, she's now able to help others.