with Ian Burness

Friend of the podcast and former Echoes mission partner and director Ian Burness comes back to The Same Commission studio to talk all things medicine with Matt and Jim. He shares his expertise and experiences of medical mission to discuss the place of medical mission within overall mission. Together they discuss how medics can share their faith with patients, how medical mission has changed over the years and what should be the priorities for medical mission going forward.

After studies in medicine in Aberdeen University, Ian and his wife Margaret went to Africa in 1979, where Ian ran a mission hospital on the Zambian/Angolan border and worked in local churches among the Lubale people. After returning to the UK in 1990, Ian worked with Echoes of Service, now Echoes International, where he was our General Director until 2015. He’s also published a variety of books on the history of mission.

“In Christian mission we need to say is that why we’re there to do the best we can or to serve the mission of God? And if we are serving the mission of God we’ve got to understand where Christian mission is and understand where best the health sector can work alongside coexisting missions as arms that reach out to people, to touch people’s lives, bring people, make people accessible and allow us to communicate Christ to them alongside the medical care we are giving. I have no problem with that and I think that’s a very important area” – Ian Burness

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matt Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Ian Burness

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Book by Ian Burness - Medicine in Remote Places by Ian Burness: https://www.echoesinternational.org.uk/product/medicine-in-remote-places/

PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission
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KEYWORDS: Mission; Mission partners; Gospel; Christian; Brethren; Believers; evangelism; outreach; ministry; ministries; medicine; medical; patients; doctors; nurses; mission stations; Africa; Angola; Zambia; India; healing; faith; health; healthcare; care; doctor; nurse; medical practitioner; patient;