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Winter Missions Breakfast
2/1/25 Missions Presentations We had a wonderful turnout two days ago for our 2025 Missions Breakfast at Solid Rock Church (formerly Brighton Presbyterian), and by the time the event on Saturday gathered we had a packed schedule of speakers as listed. After reconnecting with colleagues and sharing a delicious breakfast, we turned our attention for the next hour and a half to a volley of inspiring presentations. One point that was made had to do with those in the audience who have retired from active clinical practice: “Consider the call...
read moreChase Miller in Kenya
A month of ENT care Chase Miller has just returned this week from a month of arduous service at Tenwyk Hospital in Kenya that she’s been reporting on their blog. Jimmy’s work with providing pure water resources in remote communities has been greatly aided by their collaboration with Tenwek Hospital Community Health using the Tenwyk Hospital supply room as an intermediary for necessary shipments. Please take some time to read Chase’s weekly blog reports (here’s her 3rd week report as an example) and consider supporting...
read moreMissions Report
Launching into the New Year We had a wonderful gathering yesterday morning at Solid Rock (formerly Brighton Presbyterian) Church in their spacious Wallace Hall with over 40 colleagues in attendance, including nearly 10 students from the U of R Medical Center Christian Fellowship. After joining in prayer we gathered around tables for to share in fellowship and a delicious breakfast of exotic granola with yogurt, fresh fruit, and home baked blueberry or pumpkin spice muffins, all accompanied by hot beverages and juice. About half an hour in, we...
read more2024 Missions Breakfast
Coming soon! Sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 9-11 am Wallace Hall at Solid Rock (formerly Brighton Presbyterian) Church, 1775 East Avenue, Rochester 14610 We’re looking forward to some inspiring presentations (see list below or click here to open flyer) so mark your calendars, respond to Susan by email, calling (585) 775-9548, or by using our RSVP page, and come out to hear how some of your colleagues are crossing cultures to share their faith and skills with people groups in need. Dr. Jim Wood...
read moreMinistry of Medicine
Our Fall Breakfast This morning about 20 of us gathered in the Blossom Room at Brighton Presbyterian Church for a wonderful time of greeting friends, meeting new colleagues and students, and sharing fellowship over a delicious breakfast together. One of the seasoned primary care providers in our area, Dr. Hank Paszko, brought us a message of encouragement, experience, and insight from his years of medical and pastoral ministry (click here to download a PDF of his PowerPoint). Afterward there was an active time of discussion with practical...
read more2023 Missions Opportunities
2023 Global Health Trips To all those interested in making a difference through global health, You’re invited to join one of the 2023 trips listed below (and attached). The UB Global Medicine Program partners with trusted people and organizations to serve those in need all around the world. For more information about the UB Global Medicine Program or to make a donation to support this program, please visit: www.medicine.buffalo.edu/globalhealth. Your donations will be used to purchase medications and medical supplies for the teams to use when...
read more2023 Missions Breakfast report
Winter Missions Breakfast We had a wonderful time yesterday in personal fellowship at our annual Missions Breakfast hosted this year at Wallace Hall in Brighton Presbyterian Church after a 2-year COVID lapse into remote Zoom meetings. Over 34 enthusiastic attendees, including students, practicing providers, and spouses. were in attendance as we received five inspiring presentations from our colleagues. Check out (or review, if you were there) the presentations linked below: Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro (with Dr. Leslie Purnell) – Medical...
read more2023 Winter Missions Breakfast
Focus On Missions Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 28th, from 9-11 am in Wallace Hall at Brighton Presbyterian Church, 1775 East Avenue, Rochester, NY . We’re looking forward to some inspiring presentations (see list below) so mark your calendars, respond using our RSVP page, and come out to hear how some of your colleagues are crossing cultures to share their faith and skills with people groups in need. Dr. Christine Borghi-Cavallaro (Family Medicine) –...
read more2022 CCHF Conference
2022 CCHF Conference April 7th-9th • Cincinnati, OH Conference Website Clinicians and Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) clinics all over the country have experienced great stress for many reasons this past year. Amazingly, by the grace of God, most have also experienced growth and supernatural provision. While we are grateful for growth, growth carries its own set of stressors. So April 7-9, CCHF will be gathering for an in-person conference designed to encourage and refresh. In addition to our normal agenda, we plan to offer a...
read more2022 Missions Zoom recap
Missions Zoom success We had 35 colleagues, including students and folks logging in from Mexico, Cambodia, Illinois, and other far-flung places to our second COVID Missions Zoom “Breakfast” on Saturday morning, January 29 from 9-11 with very edifying live reports, complete with PowerPoints, from 3 presenters back home and live reports from Cambodia and Mexico, all of whom have family and/or training ties to the Greater Rochester area. Our gathering opened with prayer and introductions, then started off with Ethan and Elizabeth Helm sharing...
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