Ministry Focus

Healthcare

Healthcare is a Powerful Tool for Healing Both the Body and the Soul

After nearly 100 years, we’ve seen the power of medical missions across over 80 countries, healing the sick, softening hearts, and opening doors for us to share the gospel. But we can’t do this alone.

That’s why we’re looking for doctors, nurses, and other medical partners like you to help meet the needs of the hurting across the globe, whether it’s a one-week trip or a lifetime career. If you’re passionate about serving God through medical missions, then we’d love to partner with you. 


 

All Specialties Needed

Whether you’re a doctor, a nurse, or a surgeon, God can use your skills and talents to heal his people. We have needs around the world in almost every specialty and field. Some featured needs are:

Physicians/Providers (PA/NP):

  • Primary Care (Family/Internal Med)
  • OB/GYN
  • Pediatrics
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Gastroenterology
  • General Surgery
  • Orthopedics
  • Anesthesia/CRNA
  • Other specialties – please contact us!

Other License/Specialty:

  • Chiropractic
  • Dentists
  • Registered Nurses
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Lab Tech/Managers (mid/long term)
  • Physical Therapy (especially mid/long term!)
  • Pharmacists (mid/long-term)
  • Hospital Administration/Finance (mid/long term)

Short-Term Trips:

  • Primary Care (MD, DO, NP, PA)
  • Pharmacists
  • Nurses (RN, LPN or CRNA)
  • Optometry
  • Students
  • Other Non-Healthcare Personnel

If you don’t see your specialty listed above, please contact us to discover how your skills can be used for gospel-centered healthcare.


 

Multiple Ways to Serve

Learn about our various hospitals, clinics, and community health initiatives around the globe.


 

Browse Service Opportunities

If you are ready to start serving, ABWE has many current opportunities around the world that fit your skill set and calling. Be sure to browse our short and long-term healthcare opportunities below.

Is God calling you to use your skills on the mission field?

Opportunities

Projects

The Global Gospel Fund: Supporting World Evangelism

Send and Support Missionaries to Reach the LostGod created humanity to know and enjoy him (Isaiah 43:7). But across the globe, countless souls are lost in sin and unbelief—and more than two billion have never even heard the name of Jesus Christ.…

RAU Uganda Ministry Operations

RAU (Reaching Africa’s Unreached) Uganda Ministry center is located in northern Uganda along the border of South Sudan. The center teaches farming as a business as well as church leadership/pastoral training. It serves as a base for evangelism and community engagement through agriculture.…

Support the Goroka Project (Papua New Guinea)

Tucked far away in the southwestern Pacific, Papua New Guinea and its 600 islands are often marked by a challenging mixture of tribal conflict, superficial forms of Christianity, and spirit worship—resulting in spiritual warfare and a weakened church. Ethnic strife and widespread violence have led to a culture that devalues life.…

Beautiful Feet – Esther Elikplim Aglago

Esther is the French Africa Director for Beautiful Feet. She has established 19 pregnancy centers in Togo, West Africa and 4 pregnancy ministries in Burundi since 2015.She is responsible for the training and oversight of these ministries, as well as the training of new ministries throughout French-speaking Africa, as opportunities arise.…

Beautiful Feet – Togo

Beautiful Feet exists to spread the Good News of God’s love by founding, training and equipping pregnancy ministries world-wide. Beautiful Feet International has 19 pregnancy ministries throughout Togo.Beautiful Feet trains churches to use pregnancy ministry as a means of reaching communities with the Gospel.…

Beautiful Feet – Costa Rica

Beautiful Feet exists to spread the Good News of God’s love by founding, training and equipping pregnancy ministries world-wide. Beautiful Feet’s first pregnancy center was founded in 2012 in Tarcoles, Costa Rica. There are now 13 Beautiful Feet pregnancy ministries in Costa Rica.…

Hospital of Hope – Chaplaincy Program – Mango

Every year the team of chaplains at the Hospital of Hope provides spiritual care both in the hospital and in surrounding communities. More than 1,000 audio Bibles and hundreds of printed Bibles will be given out this year. These materials are made available in 8 languages to new believers or those seeking the Hope that comes from knowing Christ.…

Live Global | Faith and Deeds Ministry (Liberia)

Faith and Deeds Ministries in Liberia primarily uses medicine as a means for missions and evangelism. Dr. Coril and her ministry team teach churches how to do outreach in their communities by using medicine as a compassion platform. They invite teams from overseas to to travel alongside Faith and Deeds Ministries on medical outreach trips.…

Live Global | Grace Ministry Center

As tensions in Haiti have grown, God gave Pastor Predestin the idea to expand his ministry impact into the Dominican Republic. The DR is is right "next door" to his primary ministry home, Haiti. Here in the Dominican, Pastor Predestin can safely train pastors, many of whom are Haitian.…

IHM Medical Team Trip Glasses/Medicines

Our medical evangelism team leaders see the impact that even small amounts of the most basic medication, vitamins or reading glasses can have in opening doors for the gospel and church planting initiatives in our primary care clinics. Though we purchase medications and glasses at discounted rates and give small amounts, (referring patients to local pharmacies for ongoing needs) our average cost still is approximately $3.00 per patient for medical supplies per trip.…

Nicaragua Medical Team

Our medical team trips, led by an ABWE GO|Healthcare team member, use a combination of medical and non-medical personnel who work alongside a national pastor and missionary in the area. Daily clinics provide medical resources, including basic medication, vitamins and reading glasses, all of which help open doors for the gospel and raise the profile of the local church to draw in unbelievers.…

Hôpital Baptiste Biblique (HBB) Chaplain Ministry

Hôpital Baptiste Biblique (HBB) provides quality, compassionate healthcare in Jesus' name. It is our highest priority that each patient also hears the gospel during their hospitalization. HBB needs more chaplains to minister to our Muslim patients, women and children, and to follow up with patients and their families at their homes after leaving the hospital. …

Dominican Republic Medical Team

Our medical team trips, led by an ABWE GO|Healthcare team member, use a combination of medical and non-medical personnel who work alongside a national pastor and missionary in the area. Daily clinics provide medical resources, including basic medication, vitamins and reading glasses, all of which help open doors for the gospel and raise the profile of the local church to draw in unbelievers.…

Togo North Benevolence-Surgical Care Beyond Mango

As the Togo North Team sees needs that are beyond the scope of care treated at our hospital, we will use these funds to help patients with travel and care expenses at other facilities. The Togo North Benevolence Committee and HOH medical team will oversee the approval and disbursement of these funds.…

Missionary Training with Sergio and Becky

Both Sergio and Becky are second-generation missionaries! Sergio’s family has ministry roots in Paraguay and Chile. His parents are missionaries in Paraguay. Becky’s parents served in Ecuador and now in Argentina. They each responded to God’s call to ministry during their teens.…

IHM Short Term Trip Medicine and Glasses – JR

Our medical evangelism team leaders see the impact that even small amounts of the most basic medication, vitamins or reading glasses can have in opening doors for the gospel and church planting initiatives in our primary care clinics. Though we purchase medications and glasses at discounted rates and give small amounts, (referring patients to local pharmacies for ongoing needs) our average cost still is approximately $3.00 per patient for medical supplies per trip.…

IHM Short Term Trip Medicine and Glasses – ZG

Our medical evangelism team leaders see the impact that even small amounts of the most basic medication, vitamins or reading glasses can have in opening doors for the gospel and church planting initiatives in our primary care clinics. Though we purchase medications and glasses at discounted rates and give small amounts, (referring patients to local pharmacies for ongoing needs) our average cost still is approximately $3.00 per patient for medical supplies per trip.…

IHM Short Term Trip Medicine and Glasses – SM

Our medical evangelism team leaders see the impact that even small amounts of the most basic medication, vitamins or reading glasses can have in opening doors for the gospel and church planting initiatives in our primary care clinics. Though we purchase medications and glasses at discounted rates and give small amounts, (referring patients to local pharmacies for ongoing needs) our average cost still is approximately $3.00 per patient for medical supplies per trip.…

Hôpital Baptiste Biblique (HBB) Vision Project

Burning with fever, JoJo rolled over, refusing to eat the food her mother offered.  With a stoic face hiding a worried heart, JoJo’s mother rushed into action, taking her to the nearest hospital, ABWE’s Hôpital Baptiste Biblique. JoJo was admitted by one of the Togolese physician assistants, who immediately started her on an IV and medication to stabilize her and inserted a feeding tube to prevent further infection.…

The Gambia Community Health Evangelism (CHE)

Community Health Evangelism (CHE) ministries are working to transform the well-being of rural communities in The Gambia through evangelism, discipleship, health education, health prevention, and community development. Our team applies CHE principles and lessons alongside our existing adult literacy ministry. There are CHE lessons that can apply to almost any skillset.…

Reaching Haitian Immigrants with Pastor Ramon

Pastor Ramon has been leading his church and other Dominican churches to be involved in God’s work in a very diverse and multifaceted way. Pastor Ramon states, “God’s work has many ways of expressing itself.” Pastor Ramon has a burden for the more than 2 million Haitian immigrants who are living in the Dominican Republic. …

Liberia Medical Team

Our medical team trips, led by an IHM team member, use a combination of medical and non-medical personnel who work alongside a national pastor and missionary in the area. Daily clinics provide medical resources, including basic medication, vitamins and reading glasses, all of which help open doors for the gospel and raise the profile of the local church to draw in unbelievers.…

Worthy of Life Prenatal and Family Counseling

The Worthy of Life Prenatal and Family Counseling Center, located in Arequipa, Peru, is a non-profit association made up of professionals and trained volunteers promoting the sanctity of human life, sexual integrity, and the strengthening of the family with the gospel as the central message of hope, healing, and restoration. …

HOH Togo Pediatric Care: Cardiac Fund

The Hospital of Hope Cardiac Care Fund exists to facilitate corrective surgery for children with congenital heart defects. Since there are no pediatric heart surgeons in Togo, patients supported by this fund are able to travel to other countries to receive life-saving surgery. Through…

Ukraine Medical Team

Our medical team trips, led by an IHM team member, use a combination of medical and non-medical personnel who work alongside a national pastor and missionary in the area. Daily clinics provide medical resources, including basic medication, vitamins and reading glasses, all of which help open doors for the gospel and raise the profile of the local church to draw in unbelievers.…

MCH Hospital Chaplaincy Program

Funds from the Chaplaincy Program are used by the team at Memorial Christian Hospital (MCH) for the furtherance of the Gospel and to spiritually minister to individuals who come to MCH for care and physical healing. The program exists to train, equip, and provide resources for the social workers and staff who are reaching the lost through the ministry of the hospital.…

Live Global | New Hope Nepal

New Hope Nepal supports community and uplifts the living standards of the poor, needy and vulnerable lives, giving them hope to look beyond this worldly materialistic livelihood. NHN prioritizes the moral values and behavior of all and shares God’s love with everyone.…

Medical Friends of Togo

Medical Friends of Togo is an organization consisting of professionals in health care who have visited and worked short or long term at one or both ABWE hospitals in Togo and who wish to continue their support either by returning to work in Togo or by their prayers and financial giving.…

Bangladesh MCH Work – Diagnostic Services Education Fund

Memorial Christian Hospital Diagnostic Services Education Fund is training the next generation of professional Bangladeshi diagnostic technologists for Memorial Christian Hospital. Scholarships and no-interest loans are provided to help finance the education of Bangladeshis with the aim of meeting the diagnostic staffing needs of MCH.…