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• Patrick Fung
• Title: Building God's Kingdom amongst the Broken
• Location: TBA
• God is a God of hope and comfort. Even amid our mistakes and facing life challenges, God never abandons His people. We have access to the throne of grace because of the Lord Jesus. Based on the theme, “Building God’s Kingdom amongst the Broken,’ we will study the book of Nehemiah to explore how God rebuilds God’s people beyond just rebuilding the broken walls in times of threats and discouragement. We will also examine how God commissions His people, a healed community, to bring hope to a fractured world.

• Jean Wright
• Title: Embracing Technology and Ethical Decision-Making
• Location: TBA

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• Gloria Halverson
• Title: Human Trafficking
• Location: TBA
• Content coming soon

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• Amanda Beattie
• Title: A Christian witness in a non-Christian context
• Location: TBA
• We naturally spend time with those like us—those who speak, dress, eat, and think like we do. Apps now even help find those like us. But what if Christ calls us to do something radically different? Every society encourages bubbles of likeness. But as Christ followers, we’re called to break those bubbles. To be a Christian witness in a non-Christian context means intentionally stepping toward those unlike us—so they might meet the One we’re ALL called to be like.

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• Jonathan Fisher (PRIME)
• Title: Christian perspective of Wholistic Health
• Location: TBA
• Content coming soon

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• Yasuko Arakawa
• Title: Discovery Bible Study
• Location: TBA
• My passion is to lead discovery Bible studies with young people so that their lives can be transformed as they encounter Jesus. Discovery Bible study helps us to engage with the scripture in our real lives and gives us a joy to discover new insights, even on familiar passages. Just open the bible and share findings together by using the same questions. The session shares the method of Discovery Bible study, anyone can lead, easy to start. May God’s words speak to our hearts!

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• Mathew George Mulavelil
• Title: Cross-cultural Medical Missions
• Location: TBA
• Step into the dynamic world of Cross-Cultural Medical Missions, where faith and healthcare come together in powerful ways. This seminar explores the real challenges—such as language barriers, cultural differences, and ethical dilemmas—that missional healthcare workers face when serving diverse communities and contexts. Yet, despite these obstacles, the experience is deeply exciting and profoundly fulfilling. Through engaging stories, practical case studies, and interactive discussions, participants will learn how to navigate difficulties while embracing the joy of making a tangible, lasting difference. Prepare to be inspired and equipped to serve with compassion, cultural sensitivity, and missional purpose in global healthcare missions.

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• David Smithard
• Title: Bringing God’s Comfort for Terminally Ill Patients and Families
• Location: TBA
• God created men and women to be His companions, to walk with Him and have fellowship with Him. The rules were simple, look after the earth and animals, eat anything but not from the Tree of Knowledge.  If Adam and Eve had not eaten the fruit they and us would have continued to live in a state of innocence, perpetual harmony with God, and without sin, death, or suffering. That simple act fractured the relationship with God not only for the human race but for the whole of creation as a consequence pain and suffering were introduced into the world. For many the question remains, why must I suffer, why must my mother suffer like this? Where is the justice and why does God allow this to happen. God is not immune to our pain. He has been there and shares in our suffering. How do we minister to people and their families as they pass through this difficult phase of their lives, how can we bring God’s peace to them?

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• David Chen
• Title: Establishing Sustaining a Medical Fellowship
• Location: TBA
• The journey of rebuilding the TCMA Junior Medical Group (JAMES) after COVID-19 highlights the importance of faith and collaboration. Taiwan’s main medical fellowships—TCMA and CCMM—have worked together since 2015 to strengthen Christian medical communities. In 2022, JAMES resumed monthly meetings and embraced technology such as Zoom, AI tools, and Google platforms to broaden reach and make gatherings more accessible. Key lessons include praying through challenges, remaining flexible when plans change, and trusting God in uncertainties. The ultimate goal remains: unite believers, immerse in Scripture, and foster a spirit of humility, ensuring future generations of Christian medical professionals serve through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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• Jean-Li Lim
• Title: Singleness as a Christian
• Location: TBA
• In a culture that often equates marriage with fulfilment and completeness, Christian singlehood can feel isolating, especially for medical students and doctors navigating social and professional pressures. This session invites participants to rethink what it means to be single in light of Scripture, viewing singlehood not merely as a waiting room but as a season of purpose. We will explore some practical habits that support spiritual and emotional wholeness, cultivate accountability and develop community. More importantly, we’ll reflect on how to trust God’s timing amid uncertainty—finding identity, hope and joy in Christ alone.

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• Santhosh Matthew
• Title: Choosing a Specialty in Medicine
• Location: TBA
• Across the globe, medical students and junior doctors are finding it difficult to choose which specialty to pursue as a career. Contributing factors include increasing competition amid a limited number of options, the drive for personal upward mobility, future financial prospects, and the rising costs of education. A lack of vocational understanding of health care adds complexity to the decision-making process. This session will explore biblical and practical frameworks for career decisions and choices. It will examine practices of listening to one's heart, the world and its needs, the Word, and the community as a foundation for making these choices.

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• Alex Schadenberg
• Title: Opposing the legalization of Euthanasia
• Location: TBA
• Content coming soon

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• Andrea Schwalb
• Title: When our ethical principles in sexual matters come into conflict with Jesus's love
• Location: TBA
• In our daily work we encounter a lot of different sexual orientations and questions of sexual identity. In the breakout session we want to reflect the way Jesus encountered people with other attitudes in sexual questions and their way of life. We want to discuss the area of conflict between our own moral and ethical attitudes, the needs of our patients and the acceptance of the patient in the love of Jesus. This way we want to discover how we can deal with these questions in our medical work and asking helpful challenging questions.

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• Peter Saunders
• Title: How Christianity transformed healthcare
• Location: TBA
• Content coming soon

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• Tan Soo Inn
• Title: Why does God Allow Sickness?
• Location: TBA
• As doctors and dentists we encounter the reality of sickness on a daily basis. As Christians we believe God is sovereign and all loving. How do we reconcile these realities? Why does a good and sovereign God allow sickness? We need to have reasonable answers for a number of reasons. First, we need to give credible answers to those who are struggling to follow Christ. In our evangelistic efforts we will encounter this question often. But we also need to know the answers for ourselves, that we can find the strength and faith to continue our journeys as Christians in health care. This breakout talk will take a honest, biblical look at the answers.

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• Michael Cocchini
• Title: Digital Evangelism
• Location: TBA
• My topic will be Evangelism (specifically how the meaning of life is the "seeking of righteousness" not the "pursuit of happiness"). The meaning of life is not the “pursuit of happiness”, it is the “seeking of righteousness”. Everyone wants to: 1. Love and be loved, 2. Have a place to call their own, and 3. Leave a legacy. But these are just defense mechanisms for the 3 underlying traumas of the garden of Eden: 1. Death, 2. Divorce, and 3.Displacement. We want to be loved because we are afraid of divorce. We want to have a home because we are afraid of homelessness and we want to leave a legacy because it’s a cheap consolation prize for eternal life. But all of these traumas are already solved in Christ. So seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you.

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• Nyalpi Nungarai
• Title: Advantages and Disadvantages of Short-term Missions
• Location: TBA
• Many of us have done short term medical missions, and many of us hope to do short term medical missions. How should we evaluate the effectiveness of short term medical missions? In this interactive workshop, we will consider short term medical missions from a public health lens. Regardless of whether you like or understand public health, please come to this workshop to think more about short term medical missions, and how it contributes (or not) to stronger health systems and spreading the gospel.

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• Peter Sathiyanathan
• Title: Christian Perspective regarding Mental Health
• Location: TBA
• This session explores how Christian faith shapes our understanding of mental health, integrating biblical compassion with clinical wisdom. We will discuss the imago Dei as the foundation of human dignity, the role of community and the Church in healing, and how lament, hope, and grace support resilience. Practical guidance for Christian clinicians will be shared to help us care for patients with both clinical excellence and Christ-like compassion.

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• Alex Bolek
• Title: Sacrificial Living in a Limited Resource Environment
• Location: TBA
• Sacrificial living in limited resource settings is making an intentional and deliberate choice to forego personal comfort, convenience, and necessities in order to serve God’s greater purposes that bring services and blessing to people being they individuals, families, communities or nations. Limited resource settings are settings of: *Conflict and civil wars *Impoverished communities * Disaster and post disaster *Climate affected regions. Three core principles for sacrificial living in limited resource settings are: *Being intentional *Self-denial  *Purpose driven. Alex Bolek was born and lived in circumstances of civil wars and conflict all his life and will share his personal insight on this topic

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• Nick Land
• Title: Christian Medical students on being a biblical leader in healthcare
• Location: TBA
• More than one in four of us will have a significant episode of psychiatric illness at some time in our lives. Christian Health professionals have a special responsibility to help people with mental health problems, who are often stigmatised both in Churches and Health Services. The seminar will seek to answer - 1. How do we make sense of secular models of mental illness from a Christian perspective? 2. Are there mental health treatments that Christians should avoid? 3. What is the role of sin and Satan in mental illness?

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• Victor Fredlund
• Title: Surviving in Medical School with Your Faith Intact
• Location: TBA
• This talk explores how to navigate the challenges of medical school while maintaining a strong Christian faith. It addresses the intense academic pressure, ethical dilemmas, and time constraints that can strain spiritual life. Key strategies include intentional time management, staying connected to a faith community, integrating faith with medical learning, and maintaining spiritual disciplines like prayer and Scripture. Real-life testimonies will highlight how faith can be a source of strength and purpose. The talk encourages students to see medicine as a calling and to live out their faith in both classroom and clinical settings.

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• Mike Chupp
• Title: Political Advocacy for Christian Values
• Location: TBA
• Content coming soon

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• Sybrand De Vaal
• Title: LGBTQ and Jesus: identity and reality
• Location: TBA
• Sexual and gender identities have become prominent public expressions of personhood. What if my personal experience of same-sex attractions or gender incongruency is in conflict with what Christ calls me to? What does scientific research and the Bible have to say about this? How might this influence a Christian healthcare worker's approach to someone identifying as LGBTQ+?

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• Marie Carrera
• Title: Success - Secular versus Christian
• Location: TBA
• In a world that celebrates power, recognition, position, and status, Christian success follows a radically different path—one shaped by surrender, faithfulness, humility, and love. Real examples from the field illustrate how God redefines success in the lives of Christian doctors as witnesses of Christ. This session invites reflection on measuring life not by worldly validation and approval but by obedience, faith, and love. It emphasizes the importance of trusting God’s unique plan for each person and living out faithful service. Attendees will explore how Christian success manifests God’s Kingdom among the broken through compassionate, Christ-centered action.

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• Hedwin Kadrianto
• Title: Growing National Movement
• Location: TBA
• Our world today still desperately needs Christian doctors and dentists who serve as effective witnesses for Jesus in every community and every nation. We see deep brokenness in global healthcare, and this is why ICMDA is committed to building strong national Christian medical, dental, and healthcare movements in every country. In this session, we will reignite our vision for Christlike doctors transforming the world and explore how we can shape and grow our national movements toward this calling. You will learn practical “baby steps” for starting a small movement, as well as more advanced ideas for strengthening an existing one. We will also provide simple tools to help you assess the health and development of your national movement.

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• John Wyatt
• Title: AI and transhumanism Ethics
• Location: TBA
• Rapid advances in biomedical technology raise two fundamental questions: 1. What does it mean to be human? 2. What kind of world do we wish to build for the future? Both AI technology and transhumanism (the philosophy of human enhancement) raise these questions with new urgency. But this gives us new opportunities as Christian believers. Our challenge will be to show how the biblical Christian faith gives relevant and practical answers to the deepest questions of our age.

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• Julius Surjadi
• Title: Becoming an Everyday Missionary in Healthcare
• Location: TBA
• As a Jesus follower including us in the healthcare, God has designed an assignment for us to do for establishing His Kingdom. And when we know it, it will lead us to the meaningful of life and impact our surroundings for God’s glory. However, how can we know God’s assignment in our lives? What are the consequences when we ignore it? What is the meaningful life for us as a medical people? How can we have a’fruitful” life and understand the consequences of it? This topic will answer those questions.

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• Hannes Steinberg
• Title: Finding and following God's call
• Location: TBA
• During this breakout session, Hannes will discuss the “Hard work and common-sense method” of finding out Gods will for your life and discuss how to apply this method. This method has been of value for many he advised and helps with the task of distinguishing temptations and ideas from realistic discussion with God about your unique future.

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• Diana Safina
• Title: Volunteering in Medicine
• Location: TBA
• There are so many things we can do if we look around. As medical professionals, we have a unique position to serve people, for ex. - helping underserved people through free mobile clinics, organizing meetings of Christian medical workers in your city, reaching out and building up/mentoring students, developing media for your CMF and many other special things that God may put on your heart. It’s not about being some extraordinary person - it’s about serving extraordinary God who can use your gifts and talents for His glory. We will talk about Biblical foundation for ministry and volunteering, look at practical examples and encourage one another to seek God’s direction in it.

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• Jeffrey Pang
• Title: How to deal with Pornographies
• Location: TBA
• Drawing from the latest research, this talk addresses the pervasive impact of pornography in today’s world, examining its scale and the troubling rise of its presence within churches. It underscores the profound harm pornography inflicts on individuals, relationships, and families, particularly its destructive effects on mental health, intimacy, and spiritual well-being. Rooted in Scripture and practical insights, the talk urges church leaders and Christians to take proactive action by embracing the “PURE-fy” framework: Pray for healing, Understand the problem from the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual perspectives, Respond with education and restoration efforts, and Edify the Body of Christ through intentional discipleship.

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• Mulinda Nyirenda
• Title: Challenges of Volunteerism in Christian Service
• Location: TBA
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