In 2002, advice columnist Ann Landers received this letter regarding Martin Luther King Day.

Noely is a farmer in Madagascar who works hard to support his wife and child. One morning he noticed a swollen area on his neck

The volunteers onboard our hospital ship pay their own way — room and board, transportation to and from Africa. 

Leslie had been on crutches for seven weeks, recovering from hip surgery. 

Elizabeth Lefeber decided as a teenager that someday she would volunteer with Mercy Ships. 

Sylvia Bloom worked full-time as a secretary at a Manhattan Law Firm until she was 96. 

Tom Waechter was a huge-hearted maintenance man volunteering at the Mercy Ships HOPE center in Madagascar.  

“Alive Day” is a special military term for the day you nearly lost your life while serving your country. 

Our Mercy Ships volunteers find out about us in many ways. When Elizabeth Lefeber from Wisconsin was a teenager, she loved reading. 

Maris ran to the fence, but the clinic was closed.  She knew it was after hours, but stood pleading.