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 | Apr 7, 2022 | News
For a child in a low-income country, an unmet medical need creates a ripple effect. Often, it means that child is unable to go to school. Without an education, the trajectory of their whole life will change. That child might have amazing potential,” said Dr. Miriam...
by Brenda van Straten | Mar 16, 2022 | News
Dr. Aloïse Sagna has decades of experience as a surgeon. Still, he always wants to learn something new. “I could spend all day trying to do better for the patients,” he said. That’s why in 2019, when he had an opportunity to visit Montreal Children’s Hospital in...
by Brenda van Straten | Mar 16, 2022 | News
Eric Diatta’s phone never stops ringing. On the other end of the line, it could be any one of the hundreds of Mercy Ships patients who have come to rely on him. Eric is from the southern part of Senegal and speaks five languages. In 2019, he met Mercy Ships Hospital...
by Brenda van Straten | Mar 16, 2022 | News
“Every once in a while, my grandpa – a schoolteacher – would get a pliers and yank out someone’s aching tooth,” says Dr. David Ugai, recounting his grandparents’ experience as missionaries in present day Zimbabwe. “The funny thing is, my grandma never got gifts for...
