A woman decided to visit the child she’d sponsored through Compassion International. The little boy lived in abject poverty.  His sponsor took him to a restaurant.  He ordered a hamburger, and she ordered a salad.

Mercy Ships goes to the poorest countries in the world and provides free surgeries for those without any access to basic medical care.  The experience changes two lives: the volunteer and the patient!  Nurse Missy Brown underscores the important work we do

Each year, about 100 babies receive a free cleft lip and palate surgery onboard our hospital ship.  But they have to reach a certain weight before surgery.  Enter our Infant Feeding Program.

Noma is a terrible flesh-eating bacteria that destroys soft tissue, leaving its few survivors terribly deformed.  Listen to a crewmember’s account of the emotional transformation of seven-year-old Aissa.

Denise Gregory’s dad was an excellent mechanic and handyman.  When she was only four years old, he taught her a lesson in mercy.

Five-year-old Jaka was spinning – around and around, smiling face, arms out.  Suddenly, she stumbled into the cooking fire.  Boiling water spilled over her shoulders, arms and back.

Seventeen-year-old McKenzie Morgan left Laurel, Montana, in a Cessna 172 for her first solo flight with three stops along the way.  But, on the last leg, she accidentally transposed the zero in the GPS heading. 

Mercy Ships volunteers have a passion to serve the poorest of the poor.  Nurse Missy Brown tells why she serves onboard our hospital ship, the Africa Mercy

Dr. Richard Hipp developed a database called SQLite [S-Q-L Lite].  It’s used by some of the biggest names in the computer industry, including Apple.  But he receives no royalty for the millions of copies used.  Why?  He placed it in the public domain. He says, “I never expected to make one penny.  I just wanted to make it available to other people to solve their problem.”

In Africa, cataracts are the leading cause of reversible blindness due to lack of healthcare.  Mercy Ships writer Catherine Murphy describes a Congolese patient named Marcel.