CREATIVE MEDICINE

 

Jamaica

Honduras

Chile

Panama

Haiti

Kenya

Greece

Amsterdam

Cuba

 

The list sounds like the itinerary of a world traveler/tourist. Actually, it is a list of the places where medical doctor Tamim Khaliqi has ministered in creative medical missions. Dr Khaliqi serves as a physician at the Guthrie Cortland Medical Center in Cortland, New York. The trips he takes abroad have been with Medical Missions Outreach headed up by Brad and Kelleigh Edmonston.

 

During a recent visit to Honduras to help open a surgery center, Tamim had an oxygen tube explode on the anesthesia machine. “I had to figure out very quickly how to keep breathing for the patient, how to provide oxygen, and how to keep the patient asleep in order to finish the case. Thank goodness for a great team!” Those are the type of situations often faced, and one of the things he loves about missions trips.

 

On his trips to Greece, Amsterdam, and Cuba with The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Tamim has worked with Afghan and Iranian refugees and taught Personal Evangelism and World Religions. “I would encourage every Christian to seriously consider going on a short-term trip,” he writes. “It expands your mind and thinking, and makes you realize that God can and does work mightily outside of a narrow band of Christianity that we get comfortable with.”