The project will focus on about 30 barrios in the Ibague area, where it will cooperate with local churches. It will make medicine and medical equipment available to a pharmacy which has been established by the church. Curing takes care of one aspect of a person's life, he said. But healing deals with the whole person, including relations with others. It may or may not cure physical ailments.
Mission doctors are concerned with healing, though of course they work to cure the body also.
Full healing is to give yourself to others, and not be concerned only with oneself. Caryl Weinberg reported on her work as a nurse in clinics in Ethiopia. Engineer David Silverstein told of the expanded ministry of the Tank Hospital in Pakistan. Dr. Stan Quanbeck outlined the problems and hopes of ministry in Madagascar. Companies advertise that with their software or product you can get service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.