The remote regions of Madagascar are connected by bumpy, narrow dirt roads.  But Felicité needed surgery to remove a benign tumor on her neck.  

Shawnelle, Lonny, and their kids moved to a new town because of his work. But now he was on a business trip. 

A benign tumor in Africa is often a death sentence because surgery just isn’t available. Dr. Sherif Emil, Director of Pediatric Surgery at Montreal Children’s Hospital, volunteers onboard our hospital ship.  

Dr. Carl and Carol Luther serve as missionaries with Wycliffe in Papua New Guinea. Covid-19 has prevented their return due to travel restrictions in the countries they would have to travel through. 

Volunteers onboard our hospital ship often find themselves changed in positive ways.  Volunteer ophthalmologist Dr. Dominique Keremans from Belgium describes her experience.

You can’t provide safe surgery without safe anesthesia. That’s why Mercy Ships offers an anesthesia course for local medical professionals in the countries we serve. 

A noise complaint came into the Gainesville, Florida, police department on a Friday evening.  Some teens were playing basketball — loudly.

Volunteer Surgeon Dr. Jos Claes is a talented nose, throat, and ear surgeon from Belgium.  He volunteered onboard our hospital ship and beautifully described the transforming power of surgical care.

If you’re looking for a way you and your family can volunteer together, check out Mercy Ships. We even have an accredited academy onboard for crew children.

Randy Heiss has a ranch in Arizona, near the U.S-Mexico border. Two weeks before Christmas, he found a tattered balloon with a string attached to a note with the name Dayami and a child’s Christmas list.