Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2025
We live in an era of extraordinary opportunity and inexhaustible challenge. Advances in medicine, technology, and communication have opened new doors for service, while global crises, uncertainty, and shifting values present daily tests to faith and commitment. In such a world, focus is key.
Focus allows us to bypass confusion and distraction. It directs our skills, energy, and compassion toward a clear and unifying purpose: facilitating meaningful encounters with Jesus Christ through service, teaching, healing, and witness. Focused on this mission, our work becomes more than activity—it becomes ministry, relieving suffering and offering eternal hope. It becomes a pathway to shalom—God’s vision of peace, wholeness, and flourishing for every human being.
These are perilous yet exciting times. Every challenge is an opportunity to reveal Christ’s love in action and to extend His shalom into a broken world. Whether we serve in
hospitals, clinics, classrooms, or communities around the globe, our shared mission unites us beyond geography. As one body with one mission, we can inspire trust, model
compassion, and prepare ourselves and others for the soon return of our Lord, when shalom will be fully restored.
This focus also blends individual effort with extraordinary teamwork, reminding us that each contribution matters, and that greater strength comes from working together. It calls us to address global problems with local solutions, adapting to context while staying rooted in shared values. It encourages us to use innovative approaches alongside
tried-and-true methods, combining creativity with fidelity. It challenges us to balance high tech with high touch, ensuring that human compassion is never lost amid technological advancement. It requires exemplary leadership that empowers others, so that responsibility and vision are shared across the team. And it anchors us in
established truth as fundamental, while also embracing progressive understanding and application of God’s Word in contemporary health ministry. Through it all, the guiding thread is shalom: harmony with God, reconciliation with one another, and healing for body, mind, and spirit.
Let us, therefore, keep our focus clear; united in Christ as agents of shalom in a fractured world—we are restorers of wholeness, peace, and hope.
