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CMDA Student Life is a network of campus chapters helping students live out the character of Christ on their campuses. We now have more than 300 campus ministries, representing 90 percent of the nation’s medical and dental schools. We are here to help you THRIVE with a purpose during your healthcare training. To learn more about CMDA and our history, please visit www.cmda.org/about . CONNECT Unite with other Christian students on healthcare campuses across the country for fellowship, support and more: Find a CMDA chapter near you Fellowship with local Bible study groups Connect with fellow healthcare students on your campus GROW Cultivate your faith through resources that will help you live out your faith authentically on campus and in practice: Student Pulse Podcast Online Resource Portal CMDA App LEAD Discover a wide variety of tools designed to help you develop as an emerging leader while in school including: Tips on how to lead a campus chapter National leadership opportunities Campus leadership training tools and webinars GO Use your God-given skills to meet the needs of others around the world and share the gospel through missions: Short-term mission trips with GHO Domestic and international rotations Scholarship opportunities for mission trips Regional Communities Our ministries come to their most important focus at the community level where healthcare professionals, residents and students live out the person of Christ. Through our local ministry groups, we bring the healthcare community of Christ followers together to connect for discipleship outreach through local and international ministries and personal accountability. Are you interested in connecting with other CMDA members in your region? There are many local CMDA ministry groups located throughout each of our regions. These local groups give you the opportunity to fellowship and serve with other CMDA members as you seek to live out the character of Christ in your practice and community. Contact your Regional Director today to learn more about how to connect with other CMDA members in your local area. Northeast Region Northeast Regional Director Tom Grosh, DMin, MAR, MA, BS Cell: 609-502-2078 Office: 423-844-1092 Fax: 423-844-1090 Support Tom’s Ministry Tom’s Biography After a decade of serving current and future healthcare professionals as a CMDA affiliate staff at the Penn State College of Medicine’s Christian Medical Society (CMS) / CMDA, the Lord ignited in Tom Grosh IV a passion to devote his next season of ministry to transforming lives with the Gospel through healthcare. Prior to becoming the CMDA Northeast Regional Director Tom ministered through CMDA as the Area Director of South Central PA. Tom brings to CMDA over 20 years of experience with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship / USA, most recently as the Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network where his responsibilities included conferencing, digital ministries, fund development, networking, and resource development. Tom has a B.S. in Biology (Grove City College), a M.A. in Higher Education (Geneva College), a M.A.R. in Spiritual Formation (Evangelical Seminary), a Certificate in Spiritual Direction (Evangelical Seminary), and a Doctor of Ministry in Ministry to Emerging Generations (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary). He is licensed in the Brethren in Christ Church, U.S. Tom and his wife Theresa grew up in Lancaster County, PA where they now reside with two of their four daughters as their oldest two are now living on their own. The Northeast Region includes: Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island District of Columbia New Hampshire Vermont Delaware New Jersey Virginia Maine New York West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Southern Region The Southern Region includes: Alabama Mississippi Tennessee Arkansas North Carolina Texas Florida Oklahoma The Caribbean Georgia Puerto Rico Louisiana South Carolina Southern Regional Director Grant Hewitt, MDiv Office/Cell: 402-677-3252 Support Grant’s Ministry Grant’s Biography Grant has been with CMDA since 2017. In the early 2000s, at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) he met his wife Kelsi, earned a B.S. in Exercise Science, but most importantly, was brought to saving faith in Jesus Christ at the age of 21. Up until that point, his goal was to attend physical therapy school, but after his conversion he instead accepted an invitation at his church to be a pastoral intern for 2 years. The next eight years were spent teaching at, and directing 3 medically-supervised diet and exercise programs in Omaha, NE. But again, God had other plans. After reading Jim Elliot’s biography, The Shadow of the Almighty, he decided to redirect his priorities and entire life. In early 2014, following much prayer and heart searching, he along with his pregnant wife, decided to sell their newly purchased "dream home", quit his career, and move their three little children (4, 3, and 1, at the time) to Kentucky to attend Southern Seminary in Louisville. 3 years later, by the grace of God, he found CMDA. Midwest Region Midwest Regional Director Connor Ham, MA 419-789-3933 Midwest CMDA Cincinnati, Ohio Support Midwest Region Ministry Connor’s Biography Connor Ham grew up in Defiance, Ohio and after giving his life to Christ at age 15, he discerned a call to ministry. He started a Bible study group in his public high school and was also involved with his area’s Youth for Christ chapter and helped to organize several gospel crusades” in 2013 and 2014. Following graduation, he attended Moody Bible Institute and graduated with his BA in Biblical Languages (i.e. Hebrew and Greek) in 2018. While at Moody, he was involved with on-campus men’s ministries and was appointed to the executive committee for men’s...