Bertha Amirtha Deva Rathinam
I am mainly involved in student ministry and also serve as a church elder in my home church. I am also involved in voluntary medical missions. I volunteered to teach Nursing and Physician Assistant South Sudanese students in Uganda in 2016. In 2017, I went as a volunteer to Papua New Guinea as part of the YWAM ships.
I was born into a Christian family, but my personal commitment to follow Jesus as my Lord and Savior was during my undergraduate college days in 1989.
My mother, by her life and testimony, showed us what it means to be a Christian. Time and again, we have experienced as a family, God working in my mother’s and our lives. My own battles with sickness and God's healing have strengthened my faith and love for the Lord.
I have been invited by Dr. Peter Saunders for this ELF. I am currently undergoing a course at Trinity College Dublin, and this Forum will give me a global perspective.
I have been involved in Bible study for medical students for the past 20 years. I was part of the executive committee Evangelical Medical Fellowship of India (EMFI) and helped in its functioning. I am also an elder of a home church that and my friend started in Madhya Pradesh, India. We have a small church of students and some families that are eager to know God and make God known through lives and testimony.
My training in a different culture and setting will broaden my understanding of working with different groups of people. If this training is something that God wants me to undertake, then I am open to it.