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Training Your Entire Health Center to Have a Spiritual Impact in Your Community

How can a health center not only meet physical needs but also cultivate a culture of whole-person care that transforms lives spiritually? In this CCHFTalk episode, recorded live as a workshop at the 2025 CCHF Conference, Dr. Paul Lorentsen, Dr. David Tellez, and Gary Plooster, MBA, share how the Neighborhood Christian Clinic...

Belize to Buffalo to West Africa and Beyond: The Jericho Road Story — with Dr. Myron Glick (Legacy Series)

From a Mennonite childhood in Belize to launching Jericho Road in a drafty storefront on Buffalo’s West Side, Dr. Myron Glick tells the sweeping, grace-soaked story behind one of the most mission-driven FQHCs in America. In this Legacy Series episode, Myron traces how a small private practice became a Christ-centered health sy...

Community Health as Community Development | Rev. Dr. James Brooks

Recorded live at the 2025 CCHF Conference, this workshop with Rev. Dr. James Brooks explores how healthcare and community development intersect in Lawndale. Through the story of Lawndale Christian Health Center, discover how addressing food deserts, strengthen...

Whole Person Care: Sounds Great, But How? | Learning Series with Jonathan Wilson, MD

What does whole person care really look like in practice? In this workshop, recorded live at the 2025 CCHF Conference, Dr. Jonathan Wilson and his team from Hope Community Clinic share their journey of int...

Interview with Bob Mason of Medical Strategic Network

In this episode of CCHFTalk’s Strategic Partnerships Series, Steve Noblett sits down with longtime friend and partner Bob Mason, Executive Director of the Medical Strategic Network (MSN). Through the well-known METS conferences and student preceptorships, MSN has equipped thousands of healthcare professionals and students to integrate spiritual care into patient care in ethical ...

CCHFTalk: Who Is Defining Your Clinic’s Culture? 🎙️

Every clinic has a culture—but who is shaping yours? In this episode, Dr. John English, CEO of Bethesda Health Clinic in Tyler, TX, unpacks what it takes to build and sustain a healthy, Christ-centered culture in healthcare. Drawing from 21 years of leadership at Bethesda,...

From Conception to Community: Legacy Interview with Dr. Lance Loberg

In this special legacy interview, Dr. Lance Loberg takes us back to the origins of the Christian Community Health Fellowship—when it was just an idea sparked by a medical student’s research project and a shared vision with co-founder H Spees. From his early encounters with Dr. John Perkins during the civil rights era, to shaping CCHF’s name, motto, and first publi...

🎧 New on CCHFTalk: The Rich, The Poor, and The Kingdom of God with Katie Stinar, Accredited Financial Counselor

What does the gospel of Luke have to teach us about wealth, poverty, and the upside-down Kingdom of God?

Recorded live at the 2025 CCHF Conference as one of our 75+ workshops, this thought-provoking session features financial counselor and seminary student Katie Stinar as she explores how Luke’s gospel paints a radical v...

🎧 Episode Title: "Mainstreaming Addiction Medicine in Primary Care"
Guest: Dr. Zach Sartor, Faculty Physician, Waco Family Medicine

What happens when addiction treatment becomes a normal part of everyday primary care—especially in places where specialty services are out of reach? In this episode, Dr. Zach Sartor of Waco Family Medicine shares how their Primary Care Addiction Medicine (PCAM) team is reshaping care for patients stru...

From flunking high school to founding a clinic in one of New York’s toughest neighborhoods, Dr. Bob Paeglow’s story is nothing short of miraculous. In this Legacy Interview, Dr. Bob shares how God radically called him—at age 34—into medicine, mission, and a life of service to the poor.

You’ll hear:

-How a supernatural vision changed his life forever 
-Why he believes Albany, NY is one of the hardest mission fields on earth
-His exp...

In this special episode of CCHFTalk, we sit down with Grace Tazelaar—nurse, mentor, missionary, and lifelong advocate for Christ-centered healthcare—for a moving legacy interview titled “Champion of Missionary Nursing.”

Grace’s journey into nursing began early, inspired as a child by a vi...

Duane Claassen has a fascinating story that’s woven throughout the early days of CCHF. He grew up on a Mennonite farm in Central California and followed God’s call to become a doctor. That eventually led him to New Hebron, Mississippi, where he worked with Voice of Calvary—alongside some of the very earliest organizers of CCHF, including H. Spees and others.

He presented a workshop at the very first CCHF conference in Washington, D...

Ted Hewson was officially the first executive director of the fledgling organization known as Christian Community Health Fellowship, or CCHF. CCHF was birthed in southern Mississippi around 1980, but it moved to Philadelphia shortly after its first national conference in 1982. Ted was hired as the first director, but he eventually handed off most of those duties and became part of an early team along with his wife, Patty. Patty had...

In the earliest days of Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF), when models of Christian healthcare for the underserved were nearly nonexistent, a small band of pioneers answered a clarion call to serve. Among them was Dr. Carol Parks—a trailblazer in Christian public health whose legacy continues to shape how we understand medicine, community, and mission.

Dr. Parks passed away recently, leaving behind a profound legacy of s...

CCHF's new CEO, Dr. Rick Donlon had the second part of the Friday morning plenary session of the 2025 CCHF Conference. This plenary session was recorder on Friday April 11th during the 2025 CCHF Conference in the Cincinnati area.

Rick currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) in Memphis, TN., and recently as the Interim Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Community Health Services in...

Dr. Esther Kim of Clarkston, GA had the Saturday plenary session of the 2025 CCHF Conference. This plenary session was recorder on Saturday April 12th during the 2025 CCHF Conference in the Cincinnati area.

Esther, originally from Malaysia, spent much of her school years in Texas. After a transformative experience at Summer Medical Institute (SMI) in Harlingen, TX, and a student rotation at Christ Community Health Services in Memph...

Dr. Grant Scaroborough of Columbus, GA had the Friday morning plenary session of the 2025 CCHF Conference. This plenary session was recorder on Friday April 11th during the 2025 CCHF Conference in the Cincinnati area.

Grant, M.D. Grant currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer Mercy Med of Columbus. A native of Columbus, Dr. Scarborough graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Biology. Immediately following g...

Rev. Dr. Christopher Dodd of Chicago, IL had the opening plenary session of the 2025 CCHF Conference. This plenary session was recorder on Thursday April 10th during the 2025 CCHF Conference in the Cincinnati area.

Rev. Dr. Christopher Dodd serves as the Lead Pastor of New Community Church in Dolton, Illinois, where he has been instrumental in fostering community partnerships and inspiring growth since 2013. A native Chicagoan, Rev...

We can trace the beginnings of the modern movement of opening Christian clinics that integrate faith and medical care to serve those experiencing poverty back to five or six clinics that started in the mid to late 1970s. Bill Morehouse was one of those pioneers who started His Branches Community Health Center, a clinic that would serve his vulnerable neighbors in Rochester, New York, and do it in a way that honored Christ and share...