Sharing Best Practices in Global Health Missions
Submitted by: Arnold Gorske, Jason Paltzer, and Michael Soderling Attending the CCIH and Global Missions Health Conference (GMHC) through the years has shown the importance of sharing best practices in our work. We all have important experiences that help shape our work, and the more we talk to others...
Family Planning Advocacy Guide
Family Planning Advocacy through Religious Leaders: A Guide for Faith Communities This easy-to-use how-to guide helps faith-based organizations to equip and encourage religious leaders to advocate for family planning with their governments, the media and their own congregations and communities. It was inspired by work with religious leaders...
Trip Report: Connecting with Faith Leaders in Uganda
It was jackfruit season in Uganda. Driving down rural roads, I’m always amazed at how the huge jackfruit (up to 100 lbs) stay on the trees that can be up to 50 feet high. In September, I spent a week with CCIH member the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau...
Empowering Faith Leaders to End AIDS Stigma
In the photo above, Reverend Pearson Banda of the Reformed Church in Zambia writes a message about HIV and the Church in the first workshop for religious leaders that David Barstow attended in Zambia in 2007. While commitments from governments and large international organizations to fund AIDS research,...