Before we have our first surgery aboard the Africa Mercy, we need to select patients. In a country with 1 doctor per 10000 people and access to surgery being limited to only the most wealthy, the need is great indeed. On Monday of this week, over 6000 people lined up to be seen by our […]
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We’ve arrived in our new home! The Africa Mercy pulled into the port in Conakry, Guinea about a week and a half ago. Since then, we’ve been busy exploring our new home, meeting the people of Guinea and finding those in need of a surgery aboard our ship. The people of Guinea are exceptionally friendly. As […]
Read More »I realized two things over the last few weeks when checking on this blog… Firstly, I saw that 90% of the photos on this blog were of Briana, with very few of me, and secondly that we were pretty sparse on sharing photos anyways. So now without further ado, I present to you… a mostly […]
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Before Mercy Ships will visit a country, we must get an invitation from the country’s President and minister of Health so that we can work with them to provide what they want and need, based on what we can provide, as a partnership. One of the ways that the country will support Mercy Ships is […]
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Blood for transfusions is in short supply in Africa. If someone wants a surgery in a local hospital, the family is often required to get the blood and other supplies (needles, bandages, etc.) themselves. There may be two or three blood banks in a whole country and those often with limited supplies. So, on the […]
Read More »[The below is my paraphrased version of the story of our blackout on board, originally taken from a Blog Post from one of our Engineering team] During this story I was up in our server room with my shutdown procedure in hand, and laptop-at-the-ready, sweating bullets (despite our server room AC continuing to work just […]
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For the most part, Mercy Ships is a surgery ship. Everything on board is designed around the ability to get highly skilled surgeons and hospital workers into impoverished countries to be able to complete difficult surgeries in an efficient way. However, in recent years a lot of thought has gone into how we can leave […]
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Neither Will nor I work directly with patients. Our roles are ones of support, enabling other crew to carry our Mercy Ship’s mission to fllow the 2000-year-old model of Jesus, bringing hope and healing to the forgotten poor. Consequently, we sometimes lose sight of why we’re here and get discouraged. Today, I was reminded of […]
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The following post comes from our friend Ben Dumbacher, who works at the HOPE Center for outpatients. His story about meeting Baby Paul so good, we wanted to pass it on to you. ——————————— “Ben, come here.” Ria says it to me like a secret. “I have a patient I want to show you.” Ria […]
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Over the past couple of weeks, a group of eighteen men from the Africa Mercy have been experiencing transformation. While the patients we see through our ship’s hospital have a physical transformation that may touch their heart and mind, these men are experiencing mind transformation with major ramifications for the physical world around them. The men […]
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