Essence of CMAI

• We are a registered, non-profit, charitable organisation.
  
  
• CMAI is the health arm of National Council of Churches in India (NCCI).
  
  
• Our members are over 330 Christian health institutions and over 6500 health professionals.
  
  
• We undertake programmes in training, research, community service, institutional consultancy, policy advocacy, interface of theology and medicine, information dissemination and others.
  
  
• We welcome all Christian healthcare institutions and professionals into our fold.
  
  CMAI is a forum, a gathering place, an association and eventually, a potent instrument to bring about social reform.
  
  
• We are a fellowship of doctors, nurses, administrators, chaplains and allied health professionals and we work on various fronts, in diverse sectors, to bring relief from pain and the joy of health among India’s poorest and most deprived sections of society. People whom the rest of the world forgot.
  
  
• CMAI believes that the Biblical faith calls us and commands us to a Mission to proclaim the Gospel and to heal the sick, the suffering and the downtrodden. We strive to make health, healing and wholeness a reality to all.
  
  
• We also assist and support the Church and its healthcare institutions to rededicate themselves to this mission. We encourage them to broaden their vision, we enthuse them to adopt a wider understanding of the concept of health, healing and wholeness. We urge them to go beyond community health to healing communities.
  
  
• For us, our work is more than a job, it is a calling. The obstacles are many, but our achievements keep us going. As does our abiding faith.