A Strategic Opportunity for World Impact

An Incredible Opportunity: When men and women intentionally take their faith to work, they have to opportunity to spend more meaningful opportunities to have a spiritual impact on men and women who are not followers of Jesus than the average pastor and even many missionaries.

The Medical Opportunity

• According to the AMA, physicians average 100 patient contacts a week
• Medical professionals are highly trusted and influential in every culture
• In any culture, encounters at the bedside, in the clinic, or medical office are times of unusual desire for and openness to spiritual discussion
• A doctor has as many as 4,000 opportunities for spiritual impact per year

The Process: International Health Services (IHS) was created to help medical professionals around the world to appropriately seize this opportunity. The work of IHS is a bold, new approach to missions using the existing medical system of the world as a channel to share Christ and minister in the name of Jesus. By training and mentoring Christian physicians around the world to integrate their personal faith with their medical work, new avenues unreachable through normal missionary efforts are opened to the gospel.

The Method: Using an innovative and globally proven approach to sharing the love of Jesus found highly effective in the medical community called The Saline Solution, IHS trains Christian doctors to appropriately share the love of Jesus when a patient is eager to hear. IHS does this by mentoring national medical leaders to develop The Saline Solution training course for their country, helping them adapt and translate the course for their culture and implement a plan to spread the training. Although effective in any circumstance, The Saline Solution approach is most effective in cultures where it is difficult to share one’s faith.

Track Record: In the past five years, IHS has trained 1500 doctors from 36 countries, completed seven translation/adaptations, and has installed nationally-led, on-going Saline Solution programs in four countries. Currently medical organizations from 29 additional countries have asked for the Saline program to be developed in their country.

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