Breakfast onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy, is served at 6:30. 

Kerry Norton is a labor and delivery nurse. Dr. Colene Arnold is an obstetrician-gynecologist. 

One of the joys of serving onboard our hospital ships is meeting our incredible patients and their families. 

Michele was pulling into a Sam’s Club parking lot. A car cut her off, and the female driver gave a rude hand gesture. 

Every Friday morning, Miss Beth and her kindergarten class promenade throughout our hospital ship. Their mission is to recite their weekly Bible verse.  

Physical therapy is essential to the successful recovery of many of our surgical patients.  

It was Easter 2019. Eleven-year-old Danny Agee had a brain tumor and needed immediate surgery. 

Volunteers from over 40 countries come to our hospital ship with a common goal — to love and serve people who feel different, rejected, and alone.  

Mercy Ships goes to some of the poorest countries in the world to offer free medical care. And people often travel long, difficult miles to get to our hospital ships.

Walter Carr lives in Alabama.  He was excited about his new job at a moving company.