Volunteer
Volunteers at BMC are not limited to those with medical expertise.
For more information about planning your trip as a volunteer visit the Volunteers section of our website.
Physicians:
Most specialties, any length of time. Your participation in the work would be helpful and needed any time of the year; it would be especially appreciated during our annual spiritual retreat (dates variable) and the biannual mission medicine conference in Kenya, sponsored by the Christian Medical & Dental Associations in even-numbered years.
Pharmacists:
You would assist with managing a busy hospital pharmacy and/or providing relief coverage for our pharmacist to allow her vacation time.
Dentists:
We usually arrange a mobile dental clinic, visiting two to three villages per day, doing cleaning and extractions with our national staff. You would work in the office one to two days per week.
Medical students & residents:
The IMB has a receptor program for sending fourth-year medical and dental students and medical and surgical residents to our medical facilities around the world for eight weeks; travel, room, and board are paid.
Physical therapist:
In addition to working with individual patients, can include training our national nursing staff how to provide the needed therapies.
Construction teams:
Various projects – remodeling, expansion, etc. are being planned.
Chaplain assistant:
Our chaplains need someone to help them be better chaplains; someone who could work with them over a period of time or could provide some in-service type of training.
Prayerwalking teams:
Venue is variable, depending on the needs at the time and the Spirit’s leading. May include Nalerigu, surrounding villages, and local schools. Sometimes these teams incorporate showings of the Jesus film and/or evangelistic crusades.
Pastor/lay leader training:
Many of the rural village churches have no pastor; most of what pastors there are have little or no formal training. These church leaders do not have the money to attend even the regional Pastors Training Centre. We need teams or individuals to bring the training to these men = Theological Training by Extension, or TEE. As most are illiterate and have no prior study or training, you would not need a seminary degree to be qualified to do this and do it well. Would need to be done during dry season (January through late April) to have the best attendance.
Discipleship training:
New believers need to be taught how to be a follower of Christ. They especially need prayer and encouragement so as to resist the always-present temptation to return to their culture’s deeply ingrained traditional religion. In particular, we can use youth workers, especially those with musical skills.
VBS teams:
To conduct week-long Bible schools for local children and training local leadership to continue this ministry.
Computer software tutor:
BMC is using computers in a very gradually increasing manner. Our office staff, all of whom are nationals, have no prior experience with computers; all instruction must be done in an “OJT” fashion. It would be of great benefit to have someone who could not only teach our national staff but also assist the missionaries with the inevitable computer problems that arise periodically. We have no computer gurus here!
