2. OUR Mission
Christian Medical & Dental Associations motivates, educates
and equips Christian healthcare professionals to glorify God.
OUR Vision
Transformed Doctors, Transforming the World.
OUR Core VALUES
■■ Christ-like (Philippians 2:5)
■■ Controlled by the Holy Spirit (John 16:13-14)
■■ Committed to Scripture (Psalm 119:105)
■■ Communing in Prayer (Ephesians 6:18)
■■ Compassionate (John 13:34-35)
■■ Competent (Matthew 15:16)
■■ Courageous (2 Timothy 1:7)
■■ Culturally Relevant (1 Chronicles 12:32)
OUR Board
■■ President James R. Hines, MD
■■ President-elect Al Weir, III, MD
■■ Secretary/Treasurer Gregg R.
Albers, MD
■■ Peter E. Dawson, DDS
■■ Rachel B. DiSanto, MD
■■ Eric Edwards, MD, PhD
■■ Diego Espinoza, MD (Resident)
■■ Linda W. Flower, MD
■■ John H. Gill, MD
■■ Jerome J. Hric, MD
■■ John D. Mellinger, MD, FACS
■■ Courtney Morgan (Student)
■■ Robert D. Orr, MD, CM
■■ Charlotte Paolini, DO
■■ John G. Pierce, Jr., MD
■■ Jack Pike, BS, PA-C
■■ David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
■■ T. Lisle Whitman, MD
FROM Our PRESIDENT
By the time Abishek and his brother came to the Boguila Medical Center in the Cen-
tral African Republic where I served as a healthcare missionary, they had already
traveled to several African countries in search of an eye surgeon, but none could be
found. I was their only hope.
His eyelids were scarred, causing his eyelashes to turn inward. Each time he blinked,
his eyelashes brushed the eyeball. How painful it looked! He had trachoma, a con-
tagious form of conjunctivitis, and antibiotics wouldn’t reverse the scarring of the
eyelids. I could do a surgical repair of the eyelids, but no general anesthesia was
available, meaning a four-inch needle would need to be passed along the eyeball
and positioned directly behind it in order to anesthetize the third cranial nerve.
When I informed Abishek I had never done this before, he assured me Allah would
help me. So I had a decision to make. If I did the surgery, he would have a chance to hear the gospel. If I didn’t, he would
return to his village knowing his illness would lead to blindness, and I would return to my work knowing his spiritual
blindness would lead to spiritual death. That made my decision for me. As I passed the slender needle along the eye-
ball, I prayed for the Lord’s blessing. In the end, we completed two successful surgeries on his eyes.
When they received healthcare at this remote mission hospital, patients and family members often found the true mean-
ing of life and would return to their villages physically healed and spiritually reborn. The same is true of patients in your
practice today. God specializes in transforming the lives of individuals with a goal of transformed families, communities
and cultures. How is God using you as an agent of transformation?
James R. Hines, MD
“THEREFORE goAND make DISCIPLES
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them
to obey everything I have commanded you.”
—Matthew 28:19-20, NIV 2011
3. FROM Our CEO
Wow, we were busy this year! More than 2,500 volunteering through CMDA’s min-
istries, 25,463 copies of Today’s Christian Doctor, 277 campus chapters, 22 con-
ferences for national pastors overseas, 11,234 advocacy letters sent to Congress
and the Administration...and the list goes on and on. That’s only a fraction of the
numbers reported by our 40+ ministries this year. I could give you a list a mile long
with statistics stacked on top of more statistics about the work CMDA did in the
last fiscal year.
But those numbers don’t really show the amazing things God is doing through
us as we seek to transform lives across the street and around the world. In fact,
that list of numbers doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. It doesn’t tell you
about the resident who led one of her colleagues to Christ. Or the dental student
who cried tears of joy after hearing about our residency program. Or the physician who reaffirmed his commitment
to healthcare as a result of a mission trip. Or the nurse who started praying with her patients. Or the physician who
helped stop the spread of physician-assisted suicide in his state.
So instead of numbers, we’re sharing these stories—these personal stories of CMDA members around the world
whose lives are being transformed through the ministries of CMDA and who are following God’s call to go across
the street and around the world to transform others. Your prayer, involvement, support and God’s grace made all this
possible. From the depths of my heart—thank you!
David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
BECAUSE of
Your FAITHFULNESS
45 GHO teams traveled
to 20 countries
40 MEI teams traveled
to 13 countries
62,670 patients were
seen in our clinics
50 new career health-
care missionaries trained
4,311 people made decisions for
Christ through our mission trips
4. Joy Woods says her story starts out pretty normal. She was raised in a Christian home, was saved
at a young age, went to church on Sundays, was active in her youth group and loved the Lord. She began struggling when
she moved away from home for school, and then she continued to draw further away from God while studying to be a phy-
sician assistant. More than a decade later, Joy found herself in an extremely dark place after a failed marriage. “I gave up on
God and don’t need that in my life,” she said when a nurse at work invited her to church. When she finally did attend church
just to convince her co-worker to leave her alone, God began opening her eyes and she accepted Him back into her heart.
She started studying Scripture to learn how to fully surrender to God’s control in her life. It made her realize she was lacking in
serving others. After learning about a healthcare mission trip to the Dominican Republic with Global Health Outreach, “I felt a
strong calling from God, so I knew I had to go.” Having never been baptized when she was younger, Joy decided the Domini-
can Republic would be the perfect place to proclaim her new faith in God. She was baptized in the Caribbean Sea by CMDA’s
Vice President of Campus & Community Ministries Bill Reichart, MDiv, in June 2016, with her team members surrounding her
and sharing in her new journey with Christ.
And that journey continues for Joy in exciting ways. She says, “My profession of faith and full surrender to God changed my
life forever.” Since her first mission trip, she has traveled with CMDA to Nicaragua and Ecuador, plus she’s headed to El Salva-
dor next year. “My heart overflows with love for others. Jesus is all I need...He has given me so much I just want to continue
to serve and give back.”
“Surrounded by my brothers and sisters in Christ, I was baptized
in the Caribbean Sea. It’s a moment I will never forget. I am truly
living life because I now appreciate the power of God’s grace
and unending love. I can’t wait to see what comes next.”
—Joy Woods, PA
TRANSFORMING Hearts
5. David and Janet Kim are pretty familiar faces to their pa-
tients and in the community of Staten Island, New York.
And for good reason. They are the founders of Beacon Christian Community Health
Center, a federally supported and faith-based community health center serving the
uninsured and underserved. David and Janet are both physicians, and they spend
their days caring for and loving their patients with a whole-person, relationship-based,
Christ-focused model of care. Their efforts are making a difference in their community,
and their faith-centered approach to healthcare has even garnered quite a bit of local
attention. Their relationship with God translates into how they care for their patients,
and it translates in such a way that people can’t help but stop and take notice.
Now, they are turning that attention to their advantage and shining the spotlight on im-
portant issues facing healthcare today like physician-assisted suicide, abortion, trans-
gender policies and religious freedom. “Doing the missional work we do in our com-
munity has given us ‘the right to speak’ in certain arenas,” they said, and they have
found open doors to engage with local leaders, legislators and federal policymakers
about these issues. They now both serve as state directors with CMDA’s American
Academy of Medical Ethics and are actively involved in the fight against the legaliza-
tion of physician-assisted suicide in New York. They have even engaged with national
leaders in Washington, D.C. on the clear qualitative and quantitative advantages of a
future national faith-sensitive approach to healthcare.
“We never asked to engage with culture and government; to be honest, we didn’t
think about it when we started Beacon and it’s the last thing we would ever want to
willingly do,” they said. “But God literally dropped these opportunities into our lap be-
cause, in our obedience to God’s calling, someone has heard about what we do and
wants to learn more about why we do it.”
David and Janet are following God’s call to be a light in their community, and God is
now letting His light shine in areas of darkness in our country through their impact.
“We are speaking the truth in love as best we are able to,
because we know how desperately we all need to be led to
the ultimate healing that only comes from God.”
—Drs. David and Janet Kim
Now fighting against
physician-assisted
suicide in 33 states
Lawsuits filed in 2 states
to protect healthcare
right of conscience and
religious freedom
More than 4,164
CMDA members signed
an amicus brief sent to
the U.S. Supreme Court
to show support for the
healthcare right of con-
science
TRANSFORMING Public Policy
6. Before Sonia Im left on her
first healthcare mission trip
with Global Health Outreach, a friend gave
her an extra EvangeCube to take with her. “He
asked me to give it to a child who wanted it,”
she said. The EvangeCube is a seven-figure
cube that simply unfolds to tell the story of our
salvation through Christ. It is a great way we
are able to share our faith on the mission field
in a variety of languages.
But in the midst of packing and preparing to
leave, Sonia stashed the cube deep in her
bags and quickly forgot all about it. Sonia is a
second year medical student at Georgia Cam-
pus – Philadelphia School of Medicine in Su-
wanee, Georgia. She spent her time in Haiti
seeing patients and learning from mentor phy-
sicians how to treat their patients while also
sharing Christ with them.
One day near the end of her trip, she took
a break from seeing patients to help deliver
Operation Christmas Child boxes to kids in a
local neighborhood. A cheerful, curious boy
began assisting her, and they got to spend
time talking about his family, friends and the
gospel. She got out one of her EvangeCube’s
and showed it to the boy, only to discover he
was already an expert at flipping through the
images in order.
It wasn’t until later when she was trying to
share the gospel with a teenage girl that So-
nia realized the young boy had kept her cube.
As she turned around the look for him, she
saw him race into his home and then back to
her with the cube. “I finally remembered my
friend’s request and the extra cube in my bag,
so I decided he was the perfect child to give
this cube,” she said. When she gave the cube
to him, he promised he would keep it safe and
use it to tell all his friends about Jesus.
Sonia knows God used this EvangeCube and
their work on the trip to plant seeds in the
hearts of the people in Haiti. And God also
used this experience to open her heart to
making disciples. “I need to be more active in
this part of my life. I shouldn’t sit idly by but
use the gifts and blessings God has given me
every day,” she said.
TRANSFORMING Lives
“Please pray for him with me, as he will need God to keep
his faith strong and continue to grow in His Word. I hope I will
see the boy again, but if not in this life, definitely in heaven.”
—Sonia Im
7. 277 campus chapters and
84 graduate local ministry groups
7 dental residents in our dental
residency program
Mike* was born in a large metropolitan city in Turkey to a Muslim family. They moved
permanently to Texas when he was six years old. His family was not devout in their religion, so he was only briefly introduced
to the tenets of the Muslim faith, and he certainly wasn’t familiar with any other religions. He remembers feeling a deep sense
of darkness during college that seemed to dig deeper and deeper, but Mike somehow knew something else was waiting for
him. “I was not even beginning to understand the journey that would be the light that would lead me far up and out of this
pit,” he said.
The utter isolation of medical school ultimately made him realize he needed help. “I studied alone, ate alone most days and
rarely saw my parents,” Mike said. Then one evening, a classmate randomly sent a text inviting him to a worship night with the
local CMDA chapter. Out of the blue, he decided to go and got his first glimpse at the community, support and love offered
through CMDA. That one night convinced Mike he needed Jesus, so he began reading and studying Scripture, but he still
battled with himself. “Why is this man who I’ve sinned against…and avoided for so long listening to me and not losing faith in
me?” he questioned.
He finally decided to go to church to find answers to his questions. At that first service, the story of the apostle Peter re-
nouncing his faith in Jesus three times opened Mike’s eyes and heart to the grace and love of Jesus Christ. In the weeks and
months since then, God has continued to place people in his
life to help him grow in his faith. People like Steve, a CMDA
member who reached out and began praying for Mike reg-
ularly, discipling him and offering encouragement. “I’ve also
started connecting with many fellowship groups that continue
to strengthen my faith,” he said.
*Name has been changed for security reasons.
“I’ve been saved by His grace that is so forgiving even Peter found
a new life in Christ after our Lord had died for his sins, my sins
and your sins on that cross. Jesus brought new life to His people. I
wanted that, I asked for that and boy did He grant me that.”
—Mike, a CMDA medical student
TRANSFORMING Campuses
8. FINANCIAL Statement
Fiscal Year 2016 finished strong, resulting in a strong pos-
itive net income in four of the last five years. For the fiscal
year ending June 30, CMDA General Fund had income of
$8,876,009 and expense of $8,733,262, resulting in a net
operating gain of $142,747.
FISCAL Year HIGHLIGHTS
■■ General Fund donations included more than
$687,309 as part of a fiscal year-end matching gift
campaign, with a strong response to direct mail ap-
peals and calendar year-end giving.
■■ CMDA awarded more than $157,400 to students and
residents for mission grants and scholarships from
the James S. Westra Memorial Fund, Joseph and Eu-
nice Risser Memorial Fund, Dr. and Mrs. Solomon K.
“Brewser” Brown Fund, Johnson Short-term Mission
Fund, Martins Medical Missions Fund, Owen Schol-
arship Fund and the Steury Scholarship Fund.
■■ During the fiscal year, CMDA received $2,458,521 in
donations for Global Health Outreach mission proj-
ects. In addition, CMDA received $59,478 in donated
medicines and supplies and $2,148,958 in donated
services for mission trips and academic exchange.
■■ The revenue for the Pan-African Academy of Chris-
tian Surgeons was $1,586,166.
■■ We were able to eliminate deficits in certain funds.
■■ We accomplished more ministry than ever before.
Praise God for all His blessings!
Michael Oldham, CPA, MAcc, CGMA
Chief Financial Officer
David Stevens, MD, MA (Ethics)
Chief Executive Officer
MILLIONS
2
4
6
8
10
INCOMEEXPENSES
FY2016FY2015FY2014FY2013FY2012
7,913,771
7,826,899
8,269,351
8,342,792
8,344,906
8,417,601
8,394,115
8,476,452
8,733,262
8,876,009
These charts are derived from management’s reporting for
the year ending June 30, 2016. An independent audit is
available upon request and on CMDA’s website.
INCOME
SOURCES
ALL FUNDS
40%
Donations
22%
Donated
Services &
Supplies
14%
Programs
14%
Dues<1%
Other
EXPENSES
ALL FUNDS
23%
National
Ministries &
Support
Services
18%
Medical
Supplies &
Services
16%
Campus
Ministries
29%
Missions
1%
Education
1%
Publications
5%
Fundraising &
Membership
Development 7%
Conferences
& Seminars
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