People&Events

Iowa City, Iowa-The lush corn fields of Iowa provided the backdrop for the annual Mennonite Medical Association and Mennonite Nurses Association Conference held June 22 to 25. The theme for the conference was "Taking Christ...into the fields." Participants spent three days networking with fellow professionals and gleaning insights into how healthcare providers in a variety of settings take their Anabaptist values into the workplace or "the fields." Dr. Roger Gingrich of the University of Iowa shared how, in his role as an oncologist, viewing his patients as holistic beings is one of the values of Anabaptist faith that he takes into his field of healthcare. Dr. Carol Farran, a nurse …