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Health professionals meet in Honiara
Honiara, Solomon Islands
AMN staff/Gad Koito
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands held a national Adventist health professionals conference with health directors from the Adventist Church in the Trans-Pacific region at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara recently.
Run from May 30 to June 1, the conference, with the theme of "His heart, our hands," aimed to provide spiritual enrichment for Adventist health professionals, to mobilise them to work with the church in enhancing the mission of the church. More than 200 Adventist health professionals attended. Most of them were from the National Referral Hospital, while others came from the provinces and Atoifi Hospital.
Associate health director for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, Dr Peter Landless, was the guest speaker for the conference, and presented several topics, including the mission of Adventist Health Ministries in a global perspective, abundant peace in a world of chaos, leadership and spirituality in a clinical setting, and being significant or successful.
Other presenters included Dr Chester Kuma, associate director of health ministries for the Adventist Church in the South Pacific, who spoke about the adopt-a-clinic initiative and how to reach others for God; Gad Koito, health director for the Adventist Church in the Trans-Pacific region, who spoke about the office's health initiative plan; and Dr Silent Tovosia, health director for the Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands, who presented his office's health initiative plan.
Mr Koito says, "The conference was a successful one. It uplifts and brings blessings to the lives of Adventist health professionals. It's important they're mobilised to support the church and its mission of sharing the love of Christ with the world."
It was recommended at the conference that such a meeting be held annually, and plans are underway for similar conferences to be organised for Fiji and Vanuatu in 2009, followed by other missions in 2010.
Mr Koito adds, "About 50 per cent of the doctors in the National Referral Hospital are Adventist, and around 50 per cent of nurses in the country are Adventist. At the Ministry of Health, the permanent secretary and his under secretary are also Adventists. They attended the sessions and contributed to challenging the attending health professionals. The strength of the Adventist health professionals in the Solomon Islands is due to the active presence of the Adventist Health Association."
Honiara, Solomon Islands
AMN staff/Gad Koito
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands held a national Adventist health professionals conference with health directors from the Adventist Church in the Trans-Pacific region at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara recently.
Run from May 30 to June 1, the conference, with the theme of "His heart, our hands," aimed to provide spiritual enrichment for Adventist health professionals, to mobilise them to work with the church in enhancing the mission of the church. More than 200 Adventist health professionals attended. Most of them were from the National Referral Hospital, while others came from the provinces and Atoifi Hospital.
Associate health director for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, Dr Peter Landless, was the guest speaker for the conference, and presented several topics, including the mission of Adventist Health Ministries in a global perspective, abundant peace in a world of chaos, leadership and spirituality in a clinical setting, and being significant or successful.
Other presenters included Dr Chester Kuma, associate director of health ministries for the Adventist Church in the South Pacific, who spoke about the adopt-a-clinic initiative and how to reach others for God; Gad Koito, health director for the Adventist Church in the Trans-Pacific region, who spoke about the office's health initiative plan; and Dr Silent Tovosia, health director for the Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands, who presented his office's health initiative plan.
Mr Koito says, "The conference was a successful one. It uplifts and brings blessings to the lives of Adventist health professionals. It's important they're mobilised to support the church and its mission of sharing the love of Christ with the world."
It was recommended at the conference that such a meeting be held annually, and plans are underway for similar conferences to be organised for Fiji and Vanuatu in 2009, followed by other missions in 2010.
Mr Koito adds, "About 50 per cent of the doctors in the National Referral Hospital are Adventist, and around 50 per cent of nurses in the country are Adventist. At the Ministry of Health, the permanent secretary and his under secretary are also Adventists. They attended the sessions and contributed to challenging the attending health professionals. The strength of the Adventist health professionals in the Solomon Islands is due to the active presence of the Adventist Health Association."
