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Causes: Health, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, International, International Development, Public Health
Mission: Established in 1987, Global Health Ministries (GHM) continues the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by enhancing health care programs of Lutheran churches in other countries. GHM funds health care projects, scholarships, support for charity patients, capital improvements, and development of apppropriate technology. GHM gathers and ships useful donated medical equipment and supplies to various countries, communicates the opportunity and needs to groups and congregations in the United States, recruits doctors, dentists, nurses and allied health care workers for overseas service through Lutheran mission boards, and advises mission boards, synods and other groups on health care mission issues.