Tomorrow we fly home, but what an exciting week we’ve all had!!! We have greatly appreciated the opportunity of being here and would definitely recommend that everyone come along to the Regional NCFI conference in Madrid in 2014, and the next NCFI conference in 2016 (venue tbc!).This week Tim and Rose have been attending the leadership track, looking at the leader as shepherd, servant, scholar and steward. Dr Sue Allen (UK) and Dr Kamilini Kumar (USA) taught from the Leadership course that they have developed for nurses exploring the essential leadership role from a Christian perspective.
The excursion took place yesterday and was a wonderful time to relax and see some of the sights of Santiago.
The morning Bible studies have continued to be excellent, challenging and inspiring us to be more Christ like in our nursing practice as well as in our daily lives. Today we were looking at John 4v1-7, where Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well. The focus was particularly on verse 7 where Jesus asks the woman for a drink as He is thirsty. Focusing on this specific request led us to question how we can serve Christ by meeting the needs of those we come into contact with, in line with the verse from Matthew 25 v 40 “...whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for Me”.
The UK has been represented well by excellent seminars by Jo Caisley, Tony Kemp, Huw Morgan and Steve Fouch. Jo presented on wise and responsible stewardship in healthcare. Tony and Huw represented PRIME speaking on disaster preparedness and partnerships in international medical education. Steve led two seminars, one on writing publications and challenges and opportunities with keeping the faith amongst nurses in the UK. All were well attended and received positive feedback – well done guys!
In addition Steve attended a three part training of trainers programme in teaching spiritual care from a Christian, nursing perspective. This programme has been developed by Amy Rex-Smith (USA), Tove Giske (Norway) and Grace Morillo (Colombia), and has been developed to equip trainers to help student and qualified nurses develop key skills in spiritual assessment, intervention and evaluation. We are already looking at how we might use both the leadership training and spiritual care training with members in the UK
Prof. Barbara Parfitt (Scotland) spoke on the last day on partnering with the world, using the WHO model (of Partnership through relevance, ownership and community engagement), in order to have a positive impact on global healthcare in the name of Christ.
Bishop Hector led us in Holy Communion to close, with a traditional Chilean evangelical call to worship... Who lives?JESUS!
to His name; GLORY!
to His people; VICTORY!
And on that note adios amigos!
Rosanne Ball
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