CBM Serango Christian Hospital

CBM-Serango Christian Hospital located in Serango,[3] Gajapati District, Odisha, India was the outcome of missions of Canadian Baptist Mission who set foot in 1876[3] with arrival of The Reverend William F. Armstrong[3] and subsequently established a mission station on the hills in Serango. It is a participating hospital of Council of Christian Hospitals[1], an autonomous body founded to take forward medical missions of Canadian Baptist Ministries.

CBM-Serango Christian Hospital, Serango
Council of Christian Hospitals[1]
Geography
Location	Serango 761 206, Gajapati District, Odisha, India
Coordinates	19°N 84°E / 19; 84
Organisation
Care system	Medicare
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Community
Religious affiliation	Protestant (Baptists)
Affiliated university	Christian Medical College, Vellore
Patron	Dr. Helen Nirmala Rao (Medical Director)
Network	Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi
Services
Beds	65[2]
History
Opened	March 14,[3] 1928[4]
Links
Website	www.cbmin.org

Memberships

CBM Serango Christian Hospital is a member of,

• Council of Christian Hospitals,[1] Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh,
• Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi[5] Hospital also networks with Christian Medical College, Vellore[6]

Clergy Retreats

Serango being a serene location, Canadian Baptist Ministries, founder of the Hospital, holds periodical Clergy retreats[3] for its Priests hailing from Utkal Baptist Churches Association,[3][7] Soura Baptist Christian Mandali Sammilani,[3][8] Kui Baptist Association[3][9] and Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars. Old Testament Scholar and past India Church Relations Coordinator[10] of Canadian Baptist Ministries, The Rev. G. Babu Rao,[3] CBCNC together with The Rev. Ron Harris,[3] CBM used to lead Clergy retreats for nearly two decades during the period 1995[11]-2012.

References

1. ETASI, health.
2. "EBM India, Serango Christian Hospital". Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. Kenneth Knight, Shirley Knight, The Seed Holds the Tree: A Story of India and the Kingdom of God, 2009.
4. "EBM India". Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
5. The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 5 October 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking
7. Utkal Baptist Mandali Sammiloni
8. "Soura Baptist Association". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
9. Kui Baptist Association
10. G. Babu Rao, Wisdom tradition and Indian Parallels with special reference to Telugu literature in Reflections on Theology Today, ACTC, Secunderabad, 1990.
11. Directory of Churches, Alphabetic by City, Church, Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, 1995, p.D-15.

Further reading

• Prabhakara Rao, S., Rev. (March 1971). "The Medical Ministry of the Canadian Baptist Mission (Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars) 1890–1950. A thesis submitted to the History Department of the Ramapatnam Baptist Theological College in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity of the Senate of Serampore College (University), Serampore". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• John Craig, J. R. Stillwell (Eds.). "Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• G.Beaulah Pearl Sunanda (1990). "An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874–1924). Unpublished M.Phil. (History) Thesis, Madras Christian College, Madras". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• M. L. Orchard (2008). Canadian Baptists at work in India. ISBN 978-1-4086-7832-9.
• John Craig (1908). "Forty years among the Telugus : a history of the mission of the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, to the Telegus, South India 1867–1907". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)