The patients who come to our hospital ship have nowhere else to turn. Their gratitude is touching and inspiring. 

You know, you can be a mercy-giver at any age.  All it takes is the desire and the opportunity. 

Mercy Ships takes world-class surgical care to countries with little or no access to such care. 

Adelaide Stanley was diagnosed with acute leukemia on her third birthday. Her weakened immune system confined her to home and the treatment center. 

Dr. Gary Parker has served onboard our hospital ships for 33 years. 

Everybody in the village in The Gambia loved Alasana the tailor. But the fabric of his own life was tearing apart. 

Surgeon Jos Claes from Belgium volunteered onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy.  

On October 2, 2006, Charlie Roberts shot ten Amish girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse and then killed himself.  Five of the girls died.  

Dr. Rokhaya Thiam’s husband of 30 years was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. She gave up her successful medical practice in Senegal, to take care of him.

Bobbie Floyd’s husband died in 2014.  A few years later, she began to foster three siblings.