Medical Missions

Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age 27, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own health, she moved to Togo, West Africa - ranked by the United Nations as the least happy country in the world - to care for sick and suffering patients. Serving without pay in a mission hospital, she pondered the intersection of faith and medicine in her quest to help make the world "well".

After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book.

From the vision of one man... Stories covering a century of frontline ministry... Experience the joy of sharing the gospel with people who are hearing it for the first time. Be amazed at the miraculous move of God in people’s lives. Weep over the martyrdom of missionaries for the cause of Christ. This collection of one hundred and ten stories from the past and present of WEC International (Worldwide Evangelization for Christ) reveals how God is working out the vision of founder C.T. Studd to reach all peoples with the life-changing gospel.

Ancient Irish shoes, two scientists, and a biotech race to preserve our future. Alex Winthrop M.D. and Olivia Nilsson Ph.D. have their long-awaited sabbatical harshly interrupted by Chinese MSS agents on a revenge mission. Extracted by special forces, they’re ordered back to Mount Weather’s secret lab to work on an antidote to BN27, the highly effective antiviral that saved millions. The pandemic has passed but the US is reeling in post-apocalyptic chaos. When the public learns that BN27 causes miscarriage, women riot in the streets, burning research facilities to the ground. Ex-...

Grant Stockdale III, a Johns Hopkins surgical resident, begrudgingly accepts a three-month tropical medicine rotation at an impoverished hospital in rural Haiti to improve his chances of securing the prestigious Chief Surgical Resident position. Imagine his disgust when he spots Allison Smith, his main rival for the job, at the Port-au-Prince airport. So much for one-upping the competition! Allison is equally annoyed to discover she'll be stuck working with the privileged snob. Luckily, with no maid, BMW, or air-conditioned penthouse suite she can only hope he'll be on a flight out of Haiti...

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK! Flynt Redcraft knew the Foundation wasn’t offering him freedom. Just another experiment. Another weapon to be engineered. Facing a murder charge and a life behind bars, Flynt—a homeless veteran haunted by PTSD—is forced into a secret genetic enhancement program. His memories are rewritten. His pain and addictions are erased. But when he begins waking up with blood on his hands and missing days, Flynt realizes the real experiment is far more terrifying. Why can’t his bones break? Who is the woman inside his mind, whispering warnings? And what dark ...

When Joselin Linder was in her 20s, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of - her father's.

How Long Can She Nurse a Dream? For twenty-some years, Jenna Willows has sheltered a secret—even from her mother whom she serves as a private duty nurse. Long ago, it seemed that Jenna could keep that confidence forever. No one knew about the role she'd played in her former employer’s life. No one except Dr. Owen Potter and his wife, Marie. But shadows of that choice linger. Half a world away, the Potters lovingly raised their daughter, Grace, on the medical mission field in Kenya. For decades, Owen kept their arrangements to himself, even after his wife’s passing a few years back. ...

Paul Valverde is stretched to the limit, caring for an elderly relative while running a business and maintaining a full-time medical practice at Mercy, Inc. Hospital--with no time for a relationship. RN Carrington Hanover leaves her money-hungry fiance at the altar and moves on to a new job at Mercy, Inc. in Los Angeles. The next man in her life must love her, not her money. All work and no play has made Paul an unfulfilled man, and the resurrected redheaded crush from his youth is driving him to distraction. Can their complicated past become untangled by their newfound attraction--or will ...

A Collection of Monographs is a group of papers which my wife, Linda, and I wrote some thirty plus years ago on a variety of subjects. The papers are on Theological Education in Spain, The Paraguayan Mission, Medical Work in Paraguay, and church planting.

We know God’s message, but do we live up to it through our actions? In this soul-searching book, you will learn all about the heroic people that sacrifice their lives every day to help those in need, spreading kindness and love around the world. Outside Our Hearts is the inspiring account of the heroic people at the Leprosy Hospital in Myanmar that dedicate their lives to healing leprosy patients, so they can make the world a little better. In this beautifully written book, Gary Watkins will take you through the work and self-sacrifice of these remarkable people that through their actions...

Second Edition As a missionary to West Africa, Grace Farrar recounts the joys and frustrations of family life in the field and tells about the struggles involved in establishing the Nigerian Christian Hospital. She chronicles their work from 1964, when she and her husband, Dr. Henry Farrar, Jr., arrived in southeastern Nigeria with their five children, through the 1967 beginning of the Biafran War. Brimming with stories of faith, hope, and the daily puzzles and pleasures of living in another culture, Grace shares her letters and narratives. Her purpose in this book is to preserve history ...

Margaret never dreamed that purchasing her newly remodeled dream cottage on the north end of Houghton Lake, Michigan, would send her family's life spiraling into any parent’s worst nightmare. Shortly after moving in, the family finds themselves barricaded like prisoners in their own home in a vain attempt to dodge the swarming reconstructed wetland mosquitoes. Nobody's immune to the bug bites, but one-year-old Julia's welts quickly develop into bizarre and unexplainable lesions.

Er ist brillant. Er kennt keine Angst. Und er ist eine tickende Zeitbombe: Gideon Crew hat ein Aneurysma im Gehirn, das ihn jederzeit töten kann...