Instructors Needed for 2014

A new group of Barefoot Doctor students will be coming from Burma to Chiang Mai, Thailand in January of 2014 to begin their medical and spiritual training from Frontier Labourers for Christ.  Twenty students have been selected from some of the most remote parts of Burma, and their tribal backgrounds were chosen so the Lord's work can spread to new areas of this needy country.  Burma was recently rated by WHO as the country with the worst medical care per capita in the world.  Our Barefoot Doctors ministry addresses this need better than any other strategy because we are training indigenous workers to continue serving their own people the rest of their lives as medical missionaries.

We are seeking qualified medical and dental instructors to come at their own expense to participate in this training.  Most teachers come for one week of training, and this year the medical training will occur between January 27th and March 7th, 2014.  Instructors will stay at the Kalnin Learning Center in its new, air-conditioned dormitory with private rooms.  This gives them a great opportunity to spend a lot of time with their students. They each teach about 3 hours a day with interpreters, and the topics are assigned by the Co=Deans of the school, Dr. Bjorn Nilson and Rick Astone.  This first year the students will be using the newly-revised book, Where There is No Doctor, written by Dr. David Werner.  The students will be given copies in Burmese, and this makes it easy for instructors to go through the training the students need chapter by chapter. If you want to check out this resource, go to http://store.hesperian.org/HB/prod/E010.html where you can download a free pdf copy of the book chapters. Our modern classroom has slide projection and wifi, too. The students are very eager to learn, and the teaching is very practical.

If you are interested in exploring this amazing teaching opportunity, please contact Jon Ulm at jon.ulm@verizon.net or Rick Astone at astonerick@gmail.com.  They would be happy to answer your questions and schedule the time you could come to Chiang Mai next year.  We are praying for God to send us dedicated, qualified teachers for our school, and we would love to discuss that possibility with anyone interested.  Our instructors are doctors, dentists, nurses, dental assistants, and dental hygienists.  Perhaps God is nudging you toward this extraordinary opportunity to have a greater impact in the world.