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Plenary Session 1, 2025: Thirty years of GMHC - Looking Back and Pressing Forward

The Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) had humble beginnings, but over the last three decades, it's grown into one of the most influential forces in international and domestic healthcare missions. Hundreds of Christian healthcare workers around the world began or altered their ministry careers by attending the conference. We'll review the most influential speakers and concepts tha...

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Where Our Deep Gladness Meets the World’s Deep Hunger: Palliative Care in Rural India

by Fellow Sojourner

This session will be a glimpse into the realities of life for people in remote, rural India. Stories of palliative care help us imagine the challenging contexts of their lives, and how the gospel speaks powerfully, bringing light where there is darkness and life where there is death

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Risk It!

by David Stevens

To become the person God wants you to be and to accomplish what God wants you to do, you must take risks. Risk is the fertilizer that grows your faith and bears spiritual fruit for God’s Kingdom. Are you willing to risk it?”

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Serving God in Singleness

by Clara Formby

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Ebola in the DRC: What Healthcare Missionaries Need to Know

by MedicalMissions.com

A new Ebola outbreak in the DRC has no approved vaccine and is spreading fast. Here's what healthcare missionaries in the region need to know right now.

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How to Use (and Not Abuse) Our Power as Healthcare Missionaries

by Jim Ritchie

The practice of healthcare is inherently powerful, and our patients are vulnerable to our power. Though power can be abused, the righteous use of power, for the benefit of the vulnerable, is profoundly Christlike. We will explore the lessons of power which help us understand our roles, including the fundamental nature of professionalism and key kingdom strategies of healthcare missions.

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How Compassion, Technology, and Innovation Empower Health Equity in Resource-Limited Contexts

by Echo VanderWal

Transforming healthcare delivery in resource-limited contexts around the world calls for compassionate, innovative solutions. Learn how The Luke Commission is bringing healthcare to the most isolated and underserved in Eswatini through a scalable model for advancing health equity.

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Cultural Distress and the Physiological Response

by Rebecca Meyer

What is cultural distress? It is a negative response rooted in a cultural conflict where the patient lacks control over their situation. It results in more physiologic effects on the body resulting in allostatic overload. To prevent this, healthcare practitioners must use strategies such as cultural humility to help patients navigate healthcare. Come find the best ways to deliver culturally sen...

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Mobilizing Pediatric Providers for the Kingdom

by Rachel Jamison

Sacre Coeur Pediatric Center of Excellence by Hope Ignited provides gospel-centered general and specialty pediatric care to over 15,000 children annually in Guinea, west Africa, a predominantly Muslim country. This session will focus on challenges, lessons learned, and the gospel impact we have seen in providing high quality care to pediatric patients in one of the poorest and least developed c...

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Faith and the Fight Against Human Trafficking - A Missions Journey

by Susan Mathews

Develop an understanding of faith, its depth, the growth, and the journey from a mission standpoint and from a personal standpoint. Gain a revelation that God uses all our skills, if we are willing to surrender all to Him. Learn how faith works in the fight against human trafficking. Understand the link between human trafficking and craniofacial birth defects

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