Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and people across the globe blessed by the medical care you support. Your prayers and sacrificial giving show Christ’s love to those seeking hope amid physical, mental, and spiritual needs. Your partnership enables IMB medical missionaries and teams to build relationships, develop trust, and deliver the gospel through medicine.

New telemedicine kits enable needed medical access. Your gifts are providing telemedicine kits for use around the world. With these kits, medical personnel—including medical students, nurses, and residents—can put a stethoscope to a chest in the Middle East, an otoscope into an ear in Sub-Saharian Africa, perform a brain scan in South Asia, or remotely monitor a heart in Central Asia, and a doctor in Ohio can listen in real-time.

Because of your generosity, Dr. Geoff Little* and others like him use their skills to multiply medical missions globally. Telemedicine opens doors in closed countries where American, long-term workers cannot freely enter and equips medical assistants to provide more specialized care. More than 20 people have become brothers and sisters in Christ from a witness through telemedicine. Pray for additional US doctors to serve as healthcare consultants, meeting global medical needs.

Mobile medicine multiplied in Ukraine. In areas of Ukraine with limited medical care resources, your partnership enables many to find help and healing. A local Christian doctor uses the telemedicine kits you provide to see many more patients and offer a higher level of care than he could manage without them. Using the internet, U.S.-based healthcare consultants assist this doctor and his assistants in providing care. Pray for this Ukrainian doctor as he remains in his country, helping his countryman meet basic medical needs.

Telemedicine transformed a village. Amahle* lives deep in a remote village in Western Africa. Cut off from most medical care by distance and civil unrest, the 11-year-old suffered multiple seizures each day. Her father, the local witch doctor, tried and failed to cure her. Finally, the family chained Amahle to a tree in their compound for her own safety. In desperation, her family asked local Christians to pray for her healing. As the church began to pray, they connected with IMB personnel several hours away and asked for help.

Because of your generosity, the IMB personnel had a telemedicine kit. They invited Amahle to come to their city for an evaluation. A healthcare consultant in the U.S. worked with local medical staff to diagnose and develop a care plan for her. The results were remarkable! Amahle’s hours of being chained to a tree ended, and her new life began. Amahle’s transformation was so stark that she and her mother accepted Christ. Like the blind man healed by Jesus (John 9), others in the village soon saw the changes and followed Christ as well. A new church has formed in a nearby village as more trust in Jesus as their Savior. Now, Amahle sings in the choir and participates in other activities young girls do. Pray for Amahle’s father to follow his daughter in trusting Christ.

Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.

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We want to share with you some of the ways God is working through your generosity:

The Americas. Thank you for partnering with us to equip pastors in the Americas to meet needs in their communities. Your generosity enables us to ship medicines and books to these national believers so they can reach out and administer primary care to those God has called them to serve. They can also continue learning and growing as ministers through the books they receive. We just sent the first 30 books to one group of pastors, and we are sending another 27 books to others this month. The box pictured here contains vitamins, antiparasitics, and other items.

Asian Pacific Rim. Some local village men meet on Friday nights to study God’s Word, pray together, and grow as followers of Jesus. One man suggested having a free health screening in front of his house for everyone in the village. A local church—where the men were baptized just two years ago—offered to host the free screening on their anniversary and partnered with our team to that end.

On a hot Sunday morning, our team, one of the group’s facilitators and his wife, both nurses, set up a tent in front of the house where the men meet weekly. These men wanted their neighbors to know they are Christ-followers, and the free health screening was a way to demonstrate God’s love.

More than a hundred residents received invitations to get blood sugar and blood pressure checks and then see a doctor for a brief consultation before receiving medicine and an offer of prayer in Jesus’ name. Ninety-three people attended. Praise God! Those who did not participate were discouraged by local Islamic leaders from attending the Christian event.

Thank you for your generosity which enabled these men to demonstrate Christ to their community. The event was also an opportunity to promote our nearby clinic, establish new relationships, and deepen existing ones in the faith. This church plant is the only Christian witness in their village.

Europe. We are reaching out to our community through a fitness and wellness center. We held our soft opening this past week with a fabulous turnout. Now we have open-gym time blocks and classes each weekday. So far this week, we have had 22 people come work out, and a few have stopped by to check out the facility. Word is getting out! This summer, we will hold several special events, including a coaches’ training and certification class that will train coaches here and other Christian workers across Europe.

Prayer Requests. Your prayers are so important to us.

• Pray for wisdom as we select medications and books, as well as access to needed medications and protection for our shipments to pastors in the Americas.
• Pray for the continued boldness of this group of Christian men in the Asian Pacific Rim as they share the gospel in their village. Also, pray for our clinic and staff as we serve the community and build relationships with eternal significance.
• Pray the fitness center in Europe will grow in its outreach to the community and introduce people to the spiritual wellness only found in Christ.

Thank you so much for your kindness, generosity, and partnership! Your prayer and gifts are truly making a difference through this project!