Healthcare Trips Word of Life Healthcare Teams help meet physical needs while creating opportunities for spiritual encouragement and gospel conversations. Doctors, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, pharmacists, and other ministry-minded volunteers can serve alongside missionaries and local churches, offering care to communities around the world. These trips also encourage the missionaries who serve faithfully year-round, reminding them they are not alone in the work. Linda Meloy, a Professor of Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University, has served on healthcare trips one week a year for 26 years. For Linda, these trips are more than an opportunity to provide medical care. They are a way to meet both physical and spiritual needs while pointing people to Christ. “I come on the medical mission trip with Word of Life because I love the evangelism that goes alongside the medical care we provide, as Jesus did when healing people. We’re able to heal with our medicines and provide both medical and spiritual advice. I love seeing new people develop a relationship with Jesus Christ and being able to talk with them about reading their Bible and having fellowship at the churches. All the Word of Life trips are associated with churches, and the pastors from those churches will do the followup with those people. I feel that is one of the most wonderful things about the trip – it’s not a separate one-day thing, but it’s part of being part of a community. And getting to work one-on-one with the Word of Life students as they share their faith is such a privilege.”
Word of Life Global Volunteer Program
Use What You Have to Serve Where You’re Needed Around the world, Word of Life missionaries are reaching young people, serving local churches, and sharing the hope of the gospel. Through the Global Volunteer Program, you can come alongside them in practical, meaningful ways. Whether you have medical training, construction experience, organizational skills, or simply a willing heart, there are opportunities to serve internationally and domestically.
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