A revitalized medical and dental fellowship may be a byproduct of Alabama Baptists’ partnership with Ukraine, according to Reggie Quimby, director of global partnerships for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM).
"We hope to help revive the fellowship in Alabama," he said, noting that the state’s formal organization faded several years ago.
"We want to strengthen that group and our relationship with them so that we will be able to call on them to go when needed."
Dr. Russell Eubanks, a member of First Baptist Church, Fairhope, in Baldwin Baptist Association, traveled to Ukraine in late January with Quimby and two others from the SBOM (see story, page 1).
There, Eubanks sat down with Dr. Olexander Doroshenko — a doctor, pastor and oblast leader — to plan missions work for future medical teams from Alabama.
"He has a burden on his heart to go to the underserved areas of Ukraine," Eubanks said. "Our role in helping that is to re-form the (medical and dental) association we’ve had in the past. We nailed down some prime targets where teams can minister in Ukraine, and we hope to take … teams for a week to 10 days at a time."
Alabama Baptist medical professionals are invited to get on board with the fellowship and its missions trips, the first of which is tentatively planned for September.
"People will take medical care without suspicions, so you can slip in a dose of Jesus," Eubanks said.
For more information about participating in a medical missions trip to Ukraine or joining the state Baptist medical and dental fellowship, call Quimby at 1-800-264-1225, Ext. 239. (TAB)
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