Joni and Friends International Disability Center

BMDF is an International Affiliate Ministry of Joni and Friends. This collaboration began in 2007. BMDF members work specifically through the 2by2 Medical/Dental/Rehabilitation Outreach. 2x2 serves those healthcare personnel in the field who minister to disabled people by assisting and teaching new healthcare techniques.

I-TEC develops, produces and distributes unique tools and training systems for frontier areas;trains and equips indigenous God-followers to care for the physical and spiritual needs of their people; and builds bridges of understanding and partnership between Christian churches in developed nations and those in frontier areas. BMDF began a ministry partnership with I-TEC in 2008. BMDF dental practitioners serve as faculty at training courses for indigenous leaders. These leaders learn vital dental skills and procedures which allow them to care for their own people.

Paraguay Baptist Medical Center Foundation

BMDF has a long and historic relationship with the Baptist Medical Center in Asuncion, Paraguay. Founders of BMDF served as career missionaries there. Today BMDF members continue to go on short term volunteer mission trips to the hospital and also support the ministry with a variety of gifts. The Paraguay Baptist Medical Center Foundation serves in a critical role through advocacy and the raising of support of all kinds for the hospital.

Baptist Nursing Fellowship (BNF)

Baptist Nursing Fellowship has been a sister organization to BMDF for more than twenty five years. The two organizations hold their annual meetings together each year and collaborate together on many healthcare ministries. The main purpose of the organization is to encourage health-care service evolving from a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.

Medical Missions Response

BMDF was privileged to assist in the formation and start up of MMR. The organization actually shared BMDF office space for the first few years of its existence. MMR links volunteer healthcare workers with strategic, short-term, healthcare opportunities around the world. Strategic opportunities are those that enable the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ to advance into new areas where it has never been. MMR specifically targets unreached people groups in the 10/40 window.

International Mission Board (IMB)

BMDF has had a long-term relationship with the International Mission Board (IMB) for over 25 years. The IMB, an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, has over 5,400 missionaries serving around the world. The recently formed Global Medical Alliance (GMA) links volunteer healthcare professionals to IMB medical missionaries for the purpose of glorifying God through medical strategies that facilitate the multiplication of churches among all peoples. Once strategically linked, these volunteers often go where others cannot - into restricted areas – behind closed doors to unreached/unengaged people groups, to people who have never heard of Christ or seen Him in others. GMA sponsors a Medical Missions Mobilization Summit (MMMS) annually in July.