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Each year, Cedarville's School of Pharmacy faculty accompany Doctor of Pharmacy students to the , the world's largest healthcare missions conference. This transformative experience helps our pharmacy students get involved in missions opportunities and challenges them to witness to and serve others well, furthering Christ's Kingdom through their careers.

A Cedarville pharmacy alumnus had this to say about his GMHC experiences:

"GMHC will always have a special place in my life!

I have attended GMHC three times in person and once online during COVID. Before I went to GMHC for the first time, I already knew that I was being called to long-term career missions, but I didn't know where. I asked this question throughout the conference, going to sessions taught by missionaries who had served all over the world. During the final main session, attendees are given the opportunity to come up on stage and lay their prayer card on a region that they are feeling called to. While up on stage, it became clear to me that I was being called to French-speaking West Africa.

The following year, I returned to GMHC with a new purpose — to explore which agencies would have need for a pharmacist. I was in my second year of pharmacy school and wanted to start getting pieces moving for post-grad employment. I spent the majority of my time during that conference in the exhibit hall, asking agencies if there was anything available for pharmacy. To my surprise, there weren't many established full-time opportunities for a pharmacist at that time. This experience didn't dissuade me but rather inspired me to think of ways to show agencies that a pharmacist is an integral part of any medical team/hospital. During GMHC and following the conference, I continued talking with a few different agencies and organized a 10-week trip to West Africa, volunteering at two different hospitals with different agencies.

I returned to GMHC once again in 2019 with excitement and passion after having spent my entire summer overseas. This conference was truly life-changing! While walking in the exhibit hall, an agency who previously didn't have any openings for a pharmacist invited me to apply for their pharmacist position — a position created after receiving feedback that having a qualified pharmacist really blessed the team!

That same day, I approached the table of another agency that I had traveled with that summer. I struck up a conversation with the mobilizer, discussing my summer overseas and heart to use my pharmacy degree for full-time missions. I kept in contact with her after the conference, and nearly 19 months after meeting at GMHC, we got married. Two months after our wedding, we were overseas in language school, sent by that very agency who created the position for a pharmacist.

GMHC is the best place to make connections and in-roads into the medical missions community. While I can't promise you'll meet your spouse, I can promise rich conversations with like-minded individuals. I can't wait to go to GMHC again!"

Cedarville's  program trains students to become innovative healthcare providers who serve their patients with Christlike compassion for God's glory. Alongside their studies, each student has the opportunity to gain hands-on experience, conduct research, attend conferences, and engage with a vibrant community of fellow believers. To learn more about studying graduate-level pharmacy at Cedarville, visit .