by Brenda van Straten | Jun 30, 2022 | News
Last October, Ole and Kamilla Urdal made a big leap. They decided to come aboard the Global Mercy® with their four children, leaving their home in Norway and moving into a family cabin on the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. Now, the kids go to school in the...
by Brenda van Straten | May 31, 2022 | News
On board newest Mercy Ship, African leaders commit to Dakar Declaration – a roadmap which will accelerate access to surgical, obstetric, and anesthetic care by 2030 DAKAR, Senegal, May 31, 2022/APO Group/ H.E. President of Senegal Macky Sall has inaugurated the...
by Brenda van Straten | May 23, 2022 | News, Volunteer Stories
Joe and Agnes Biney joined Mercy Ships in the 1990s with no end date. Their prayer wasalways: “God, if you still want us here, give us the grace to continue to serve.” Three decades later, Agnes says simply, “We’ve been here since.” They left their home in Ghana to...
by Brenda van Straten | May 23, 2022 | News, Volunteer Stories
When Susan joined Mercy Ships, she was 25 years old. She only planned to stay five months.”That was in 1987,” she remembered. “Five years later when I married Gary, I never imaginedthat I was signing up to spend most of my adult life on a Mercy Ship.” Dr. Gary...
by Brenda van Straten | May 23, 2022 | Patient Stories
This shouldn’t be Gisele’s story, but it is. In 1993 Gisele was 28 years old, married, and expecting a baby. Following a miscarriage with her first pregnancy, this baby was perhaps even more precious. She was elated with the anticipation of motherhood...