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 Organization Chart of CCMM
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Mission Statement and 5 Primary Objectives
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Mission Statement
Proclaim the saving gospel of Jesus Christ and assist in the area of public welfare such as medical services etc.
5 Primary Objectives
1. Awaken churches to bear the burden of medical missions.
2. Take active social concern for medical issues in general.
3. Equip students and workers for medical mission.
4. Send workers to places of greater need for medical mission.
5. Assist Christian workers in hospitals and clinics to set up fellowships for medical missions. |
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Historical Synopsis
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Along with Dr. Stewart Wu, a group of Chinese doctors came together to establish the Chinese Christian Medical Mission (CCMM) in Chicago. |
1974 |
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Sister Louise, a missionary from Holland, started the Chinese Hospital Christian Fellowship (CHCF). |
1977 |
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A group of medical doctors in Taiwan with a burden for medical missions initiated a prayer fellowship at Gospel Clinic. As the fellowship grew in number, Chinese Christian Medical Mission (CCMM) of Taiwan was established and constituted. |
1979 |
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CCMM and Finnish Missionary Society signed an agreement to grant CCMM full authority to operate and develop the Hengchun Christian Hospital. |
1982 |
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CCMM and Norway Mission Alliance signed an agreement to jointly run the Pingtung Christian Hospital. |
1983 |
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CHCF and CCMM merged, retaining the English name Chinese Christian Medical Mission (the new name in Chinese translates as Luke Gospel Mission). |
1984 |
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CCMM registered with the government as a non-profit organization. |
1986 |
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CCMM appointed three committee members as Board Members of Puli Christian Hospital (PCH) and nominated Brother Liang Cheng as Vice-president of PCH. |
1987 |
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CCMM appointed committee member Dr. David Redhelm Weng as Presider of Chiayi Christian Hospital. |
1990 |
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CCMM established a sub-committee in Los Angeles, USA. |
1993 |
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CCMM began gospel medical mission work in Wapang, and appointed Pingtung Christian Hospital to set up a short-term medical mission team. |
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CCMM appointed committee member Dr. Jung-Der Wang as President of KaoShung Christian Hospital. |
1994 |
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CCMM appointed committee member Dr. David Huang as President of Puli Christian Hospital. |
1997 |
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CCMM established a sub-committee in Oslo, Norway. |
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CCMM appointed committee member Dr. Jack C.R. Tsai as President of Pingtung Christian Hospital. |
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CCMM sent committee member Dr. Paul Huang as a long-term medical missionary to serve in Wapang. |
1999 |
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CCMM sent Brother Samuel Cheung as a Long-term medical missionary to serve Dungan people in Kazakhstan. |
2000 |
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CCMM appointed committee member Dr. Liegan Chia as President of Hengchun Christian Hospital. |
2001 |
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Dr. David Redhelm Weng was appointed Director General of Bureau of Health Promotion, Department of Health. |
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Biographical Sketches
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Do the best but not for self |
Dr. Paul Han
A pre-eminent medical researcher and professor of physiology at Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Han resigned his work to assume the role of Principal at Taiwan's Yang Ming Medical College. Dr. Han untiringly encouraged medical mission work among rural districts and was personally involved in the work at Hengchun Christian Hospital in Southern Taiwan, where the medical care was most urgently needed. Sadly, because of a brain tumor, Dr. Han went home to be with the Lord on August 4, 1984. |
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Sister Wei-Na Dai
A business major who graduated in 1981 from the National Political University, Sister Dai resigned her work in Taipei and went to serve as a medical missionary at Hengchun Christian Hospital. Not only did she build up a strong inter-personal relationship with the staff, Sister Dai also zealously helped to raise funds for the hospital expansion program. She had a deep desire to repay her country and serve her people through helping the sick and preaching the gospel. While enroute to Nanmeng Church with co-workers for a fundraising event, she had a car accident in heavy rain which claimed her young life of 24 years. |
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Steep and turbulent the path of medical missions, Before, behind,
the Lord addeth more grace |
Dr. Hong-Chung Hsieh
A graduate from the China Medical University, Dr. Hsieh left National Taiwan University Hospital to become President of Bread of Life Seminary. From a healer of the body to a healer of the soul for the sake of the gospel, Dr. Hsieh became somewhat of a fool in the eyes of the world by abandoning a promising medical career. Transformed from a mere believer into a willing servant of God, Dr. Hsieh clearly understood that God's calling is without regret. |
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Dr. Chang-Tian Liu
Forsaking an excellent medical career in Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan's largest hospital, Dr. Liu went to work in the remote Taitung Christian Hospital. When CCMM undertook by faith the work at Hengchun Christian Hospital and was in need of workers, Dr. Liu was the first to volunteer his services even though it meant giving up the opportunity for further studies at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Because of his love for the poor in underdeveloped Wapang, he pioneered the medical mission work there, At present, he serves at Hengchun Christian Hospital. |
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Dr. Matthew Tsai
After graduating at the top of his class from the medical department of National Taiwan University, Dr. Tsai stayed on as a psychiatrist working for the university hospital. Instead of going on to make a name for himself at this prestigious university, he subsequently left to work at Hengchun Christian Hospital. Later Dr. Tsai felt called to undertake seminary training in the USA and completed a Master's degree in Missions and a Doctor of Philosophy. He now pastors an Evangelical Formosan Church in Chicago. |
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Scope of Mission Activities
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Fellowship（Teaching）
The main function of the Fellowship Department is to encourage and help believers to set up fellowships for Christian medical workers and students in hospitals, clinics, medical colleges and nursing schools. Such fellowship activities not only promote personal spiritual growth but also provide the means for outreach to colleagues, patients, their relatives and friends. In addition, these fellowships are able to link up with local churches to train volunteers and to continue the follow-up work of newly-discharged patients who desire to grow strong spiritually even as they recuperate physically.
Hospital（Medical care）
The main function of the Hospital Department is to assist in the administration of hospitals and clinics entrusted by God to CCMM. The provision of Christian medical services presents the opportunity of spreading the gospel as well as training believers for the work in Christian medical missions. At the present time, this department manages the Hengchun Christian Hospital and assists in managing the Pingtung Christian Hospital.
Mission（Evangelizing）
The main function of the Mission Department is to spread the vision and burden of CCMM among Christian medical workers in hospitals and clinics and Christian students studying in medical colleges and nursing schools so as to challenge them to answer the call to full-time medical missions. This work will involve them with churches and evangelistic groups in expanding the work of missions, including raising and supporting short-term and long-term medical workers from within the country or from abroad.
Communication（Sharing）
The main function of the Communication Department is publicity and to share a variety of information in three media.
（1）Publication of 40,000 copies of Luke Monthly: Its content includes gospel, testimonies, medical knowledge, medical ethics, vision of medical mission and news of medical missions at large. Publication of books and volunteers' manuel.
（2）Production of hospital gospel tapes and VCDs: We invite specialists to share the diseases and witnesses to share the testimonies. It shall be used as a gospel tool for patient visitations in hospitals.
（3）Internet Ministry: It includes CCMM home page for sharing medical missions, publication of electronic newspaper and database for medical missions. |
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What CCMM Has Done So Far
（Hengchung）
Love and Medical Care at Taiwan's Tail
When the Hengchun Tempest struck the warm and beautiful town of Hengchun in 1957, a missionary from the faraway northern land of Finland came to stay, and later, in 1968, set up a medical clinic. From there, a medical team was sent to the mountain areas to provide health and medical services to the aboriginal people. This clinic later beacame the Hengchun Christian Hospital (HCH) in 1976.
On account of a shortage of medical doctors at the hospital, CCMM, under the guidance of Dr. Paul Han, the former president of CCMM, took over by faith the leadership and administration of the HCH from the Finnish Missionary Society in 1979.
In 1995, HCH was expanded into a 80-bed medical facility to meet the needs of the growing population inHengchun. This not only afforded a wider contact for the propagation of the gospel but also enabled the inception of training of workers from within the country or from abroad for long-term medical mission work.
HCH often has a financial deficit every month, mainly to pay the loans for expanding HCH and support the free medical services in remote areas. Let us lovingly pray for these sacrificing and dedicated medical workers and provide the funds they need to continue their work. |
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（Pingtung）
We Will Go Where There Is Need
CCMM was invited by Norway Mission Alliance in 1982 to co-run Pingtung Christian Hospital (PCH). At that time, the hospital could not boast of any grand building nor of high quality equipment and modern facilities. Neither was there a priority to operate this medical work with a profit as was the case of most other hospitals. But PCH was like a large family for its members ever working and growing together. Additionally, it has become the watchman for the people of Southern Taiwan in the fields of health and medical care. In its early days, the hospital worked with World Vision quite often to provide periodic medical checkups and other medical services to the people in the mountain areas.
In1989, PCH was expanded into a 300-bed medical facility to provide more medical services in the areas of Pingtung.
In 1993, short-term medical mission work began in Wapang.
In 1999, PCH once again expanded its facilities. This renovation increased the inpatient capacity to 700 beds, making PCH the largest and best equipped hospital in the Pingtung region. Henceforth patients need not travel across the Kao-Ping River in order to get advanced medical help.
Presently, the spirit of sacrificial love is propelling PCH towards the goal of establishing long-term medical mission work. |
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（Lanyu Island）
Beacon at the Peak
In 1985, Dr. Kuo-Shun Yen, a CCMM committee member, opened his own medical clinic in Taitung. He then organized a medical mission team under the name "Tung Ho Surgical Help." This team travels to provide free medical consultation and aid to the rural districts of Lanyu lsland and Taitung.
In 1995, CCMM's Dental Services set up Lan-En Dental Clinic on Lanyu lsland not only to provide dental services there but also to promote an island-wide oral cavity prevention program as well as pave the way for propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Due to a manpower shortage, each medical worker has to individually undertake several tasks. One set of dental equipment donated by World Vision Taiwan was sent to Lanyu lsland to supplement the existing old and outdated equipment. |
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（Wapang）
Medical Missions of Love to Under-
developed Areas with Neglected Cultures
Wapang, nestled within the mountainous areas of Burma (Myanmar), lies near the borders of Thailand and Laos. Located within the heartland of the famed "Golden Triangle", this opium capital of the world of days past is now autonomous and no longer grows or cultivates opium, In 1993, CCMM appointed Pintung Christian Hospital to begin short-term medical mission work in Wapang.
Due to inadequate manpower the list of things to do there is endless: leading students in praise and prayer, visiting the wards with the gospel, healing and caring for the sick. Whether the work here with diverse cultures in Wapang--animpoverished land inhabited by people of extreme poverty--could continue indefinitely will depend on availability of personnel on a long-term basis to support the ongoing medical services and mission activities. |
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（Kazakhstan）
The Outcast Dungan People outside Tian-Shan
Dungan people came from the province of Shan-Hsi in China. They believe in lslam. About 120 years ago, they were driven out by the Ching Dynasty for attempting to restore the previous Ming Dynasty, so they escaped from Shan-Hsi to Xin-Jiang, then crossed Tian-Shan to settle in the southeast part of Kazakhstan. Most of them are located in what is called today Bai Yan Hu Village and Ma Shan Cheng Village, depending on agriculture and herding for their living. They are suffering in a dark world without the gospel like sheep without a shepherd that are wearied and helpless.
In 1999, CCMM began to do medical missions for the unreached people in this area. God is now calling "Who can I send? Who is willing to spread the gospel for me?"
＊Kazakhstan call those who come from the east the Dungan people. |
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The Call of Medical Missions from the lsolated, Remote Areas of the World
Mission
CCMM's medical mission of love hopes to reach out to and encompass all the neglected, impoverished, and isolated places of the world--especially where the gospel of Jesus Christ is lacking or absent--from Hengchun and all Taiwan to the uttermost ends of the earth.
Helping the sufferers:
Physical healing, spiritual salvation.
Their pain we must behold--and no longer can ignore.
Why should we go out and provide free medical services in poor rural areas?
Their geographical remoteness is no fault of theirs
Their poverty isn't their own choosing
Though isolated
Though distant
Man's suffering beckons relief
Man's life urges respect
For...
So...
We must go
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Vision
To restore physical health is but the beginning; helping people to a better life is the final goal.
Physical Health
Supplying manpower and material needs to under-developed faraway districts along with curing illnesses and sustaining health are the basic objectives to be achieved.
Improvements in Living Standards
Good health would allow locals to work better for greater productivity. An increase in emphasis on sanitation and hygiene would result in an increase in living standards.
The Roots of Faith
If life and health are likened to the two edges of a sword, faith in God would be the sword's handle. When divine faith takes root in the hearts of people, the sword in their hands can become a powerful weapon of progress. Belief in God will hold out the best hope for isolated, under-developed rural areas to come confidently into their own.
The Joys of Life
When the good news of Jesus enters the lives of rural folks, they will discover life's purpose and meaning, for they will experience love in their isolated existence and warmth in their poverty. This is the manner in which joy will enter people's lives.
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Calling
Your help and giving is like spring fountain
that nourishes and flourishes the trees and the flowers
Were the earth not spherical, yet hearts close and knit encircle.
Heights, plains, never again will difficulties and dangers present,
inside, outside the island, no mysteries abound,
at home, abroad, seemingly distant, actually just around the comer.
For love dismantles all barriers, love softens the difference in skin color,
love spurs on the action of providing succor.
To enable our sight to peer farther, and our hearts to stretch to contain more
God created the vast expanse...here a fertile valley and plain,
there an impoverished, isolated terrain.
With each dawning light, do not you and misread life's purpose,
laugh at society's foibles, assay evervthing?
When we awake at midnight we then begin to realize
from the land, for the land, the more given, the more obtained.
Now we shall direct our steps towars the urgent pleas...
of mountain areas, of rueal country, of struggling, emerging cultures.
You may not visitin person, the cry for help may seem weak.
Yet our hope is the person next to RESPOND would be you,
And our hope is the person next to GIVE FREELY would be you. |
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The Future of CCMM
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CCMM is a gospel organization which depends totally on people's offerings. At present, its manpower and finances are rather limited. Whether or not CCMM is able to fulfil the divine commission of medical missions depends on the availability of volunteer Christian workers and adequate ongoing financial support.
1.Coordination and Execution of Local Hospital Mission Movement
The local hospitals in Taiwan are swarmed with people. Hospitals are the major sports for us to be fishers of men. But all we need is a great number of Christians committed themselves for our Lord in hospitals. CCMM has been a bridge joining together medical fellowships in local hospitals and the neighboring churches for the gospel ministry. We also cooperate with other evangelical organizations as partnership in gospel to expand God's kingdom.
2.Construction of the Medical Mission Institute
To enable those called into the field of medical missions to receive training in the following areas:
（1）General medicine
（2）Mission and evangelism
（3）Understanding of, and learning how to adapt to, the living conditions and diverse cultures of poor and isolated people groups. |
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