Healthcare Missions Goes GLOCAL: Providing Global and Local Whole Person and Community Care

 

Christine Sine, MD

Christine Sine, is an Australian physician, who developed the medical ministry for Mercy Ships. She loved shipboard life in spite of the fact that she is one of those lucky people who can get seasick sitting on the wharf looking at the sea. She still works as a consultant in international healthcare and travel medicine as well as conducting seminars to help prepare people for overseas mission service. She has worked in Africa, Asia, Central America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. She is currently CEO of Mustard Seed Associates www.msainfo.org raising awareness of issues facing Christians in the future and helping to develop creative responses. . She is the author of three books GodSpace: Time for Peace in the Rhythms of Life (Barclay Press 2006), Travel Well (World Vision Resources 2005) and Tales of a Seasick Doctor (Zondervan 1996). Christine and her Tom also co-authored Living on Purpose: Finding God’s Best for Your Life. (Baker Books 2002) . Check out her blog www.godspace.wordpress.com