Christian Health Service Corps is a community of Christian doctors, health professionals and health educators serving the poor in places that have little or no access to healthcare. Every day we bring compassionate, life-saving health services to families around the world. CHSC physicians and health professionals are often the only access to care for young families in poor communities.
Asia
Ethan and Elizabeth Helm
CambodiaFamily Practice & Pediatrician - TBDEthan and Elizabeth are medical missionaries passionate about bringing spiritual and physical healing to the developing world. After serving two years in rural Cameroon (West Africa) with World Medical Mission, they moved to Cambodia where they have been studying language and culture.
Ethan is a native of Little Rock who completed his undergraduate studies outside of Chicago and returned to Arkansas for medical school. God saved Ethan when he was young, grew his faith through his diagnosis with cancer as a teenager, and called him to missions through a Kenyan mentor by the name of Dr. James Njengere. Elizabeth spent most of her formative years in Buffalo, where she attended undergraduate and medical schools. They completed their residencies in Rochester, NY, where Ethan trained in Pediatrics and Elizabeth in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine.
In addition to providing high quality healthcare, Ethan and Elizabeth are committed to resident education and church planting. They are thankful for the children God has given them, who have enjoyed their own international journeys thus far. Josiah (age 7), Esther (age 5), and Isaiah (age 2).
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Dr. Tariq Parvez
Serving in PakistanFamily Practice PhysicianMission: My Medical Mission work is really fulfilling the great commission of Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Great
Physician. We treat and He heals. My goal is to share the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and to demonstrate God’s love by providing free Medical Care, free medicines to people in rural and remote areas of Pakistan who have little or no access to medical care or hospitals. I would like to save and enhance lives of the vulnerable, poor, oppressed
through the provision of health care and medicines. I have dedicated my life for the harvest and gospel of my Lord Jesus Christ. He is my inspiration.
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Corinne Porter
CambodiaRegistered NurseCorinne is a nurse with a desire to glorify God with her career and show the love of Jesus to others through compassionate health care and nursing education. She received a BSN from Cedarville University in 2005 and an MSN from St. John Fisher College in 2014. Her heart for missions came at a young age, while her parents were on staff at Elim Fellowship, a mission sending organization near Rochester, New York. She participated in several short-term mission trips as a teenager. The health needs of the people she met in Ghana led her to pursue nursing as a career.
She spent the first 10 years of her nursing career as an oncology nurse, working in inpatient, clinic, and infusion center settings. After completing her master’s degree, uncertain of the next step, Corinne prayed for wisdom. The Lord answered this prayer by calling her to medical missions, assuring her of his constant faithfulness.
Corinne spent several weeks at M’Bingo hospital in Cameroon in 2016 and 2017, which sparked an interest in nursing education. She has spent the last several years working as a med-surg nurse and an adjunct nursing instructor. During that time, she visited Cambodia and is planning to serve there as a nurse and a nursing professor.
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Rigel Elizaga
PhilippinesVideo Editor - Christian Health Service Corps5 years of experience in Video and Graphics editing. Serving in church since 2011.
When I found out about CHSC's mission and
their compassion for the needy and lost, I immediately want to join this organization.
Being part of this organization feels like I'm making a difference by doing videos in MMTV.
I serve in CHSC as a video editor.
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Steve & Caitlin Twyman
CambodiaMedical Doctor - Mercy Medical Center HospitalWhen Steve and Caitlin met in college in 2006 and were placed on the same short-term team to India, they quickly realized that they shared a passion and calling for missions and service. Over the next several years, they had a glimpse of what may come as they both served for short periods of time internationally, though separately, in Europe and East Asia before starting grad school.
In 2016, while working as an immigration attorney, God called Caitlin to partner with The Parks Church to build a local ministry and charitable medical clinic, Hope Clinic of McKinney. A year later, after Steve finished his residency in family medicine, Hope Clinic opened its doors and started sharing the love of Jesus through providing for the medical needs of the locally uninsured.
Thousands of patient encounters later, the Lord has again called them into a new season of ministry as they embark for Cambodia. They will be working at the Mercy Medical Center Hospital and family medicine residency program near the capital city of Phnom Penh. Caitlin and Steve have three children, Benson, who lives in heaven, and Audie and Charlie who will be joining them in their service.
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