Windsor volunteers onboard our hospital ship in the Communications Department. She describes how someone showed appreciation for the crewmembers. 

Jimmy was living in the local marketplace when Mercy Ships crewmembers met him. The 26-year-old had a sweet spirit in spite of terrible pain and the rejection caused by the foul odor of his infected leg. 

Over a hundred years ago in a Scottish inn, some fishermen were relaxing after a long day at sea. A serving maid walked past, carrying a pot of tea, as a man waved his arm to describe a big fish. 

Kirsten Murphy, volunteer Wound Care Nurse onboard our hospital ship, describes her job. 

A white building with golden domes is the spiritual and cultural center for 140 Muslims in Victoria, Texas. On January 28, 2017, the building was destroyed by arson. 

Carron Meney volunteers as a physician onboard our hospital ship.

The children undergoing physical therapy at our Mercy Ships dockside rehab center needed miniature walkers. There were only five available, and we needed five times that number.  

Volunteering onboard our hospital ships in Africa may seem like a really big step… and it is! 

Leon Logothetis used to be a broker — sitting at a desk, working 12-hour days.  Something had to change.

Mercy Ships volunteers entered an 8-foot square structure, home to a young bedridden woman in a poor African village. She’d had a stroke and lived with her mother, who also faced physical challenges.