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[Editor’s Note: Amie wrote this post just before her departure and is now on the ground in Ghana!] I am currently visiting long-term Mission Doctor Doris Weaver, NP, and long-term Lay Mission-Helper Karlee Duffey, RN, along with our site partners in the Diocese of Damongo, Ghana. Doris and Karlee are the first lay missionaries from

Frightened, uncertain, waiting, the disciples gathered in that upper room.  Suddenly filled with the Gift they were promised, something they could not contain.  They spilled out into the streets. They crossed borders. They spoke languages not their own. They had been sent.  Pentecost is the feast of being sent. At Mission Doctors Association, we see the Holy Spirit

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations… And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”  — Matthew 28:19–20 Today we pause to contemplate a paradox: Christ departs, and yet — in the very act of departing — He sends. The disciples do not stand at the mountaintop as spectators.

What drives a surgeon to leave a busy California practice for a mission hospital in Sudan? What moves a family physician to pack up and spend months thousands of miles from home to care for those in need? For our mission doctors, the answer is vocation — a sense that their medical training is not

Today, we celebrate God’s perfect plan.  And as we celebrate His plan for Mary, conceived without sin on this feast of the Immaculate Conception – we can also pause and consider how our lives are a reflection of God’s will. Will we be prepared to say  “Yes!” when God calls us?  Will we follow Mary’s example

After more than three years in Peru, Dr. Lucy Goh, MD, is finally headed back to life in the United States.   A pediatrician and lifelong Catholic, Dr. Lucy felt called to mission work early in her career. Since becoming a physician, she has served on several missions in Asia and Africa before finding a

Are you a Catholic physician, dentist, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner who has felt a call toward serving in medical missions, but wonder where to begin? The Mission Doctors Retreat/Seminar is designed to help you prayerfully and practically explore that call. Taking place April 17-19, 2026, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, this weekend offers time to

Mission Doctors Association is filled with joy to announce that Br. John Kiesler, OFM will receive the Msgr. Anthony Brouwers Award at our Heart for the World Gala on Saturday, February 14, 2026, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Center in Los Angeles. The Msgr. Anthony Brouwers Award is the highest honor bestowed by Mission Doctors Association, recognizing a lifetime of faithful

“Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.”  Throughout his papacy, St. John Paul II called the Church to a renewed commitment to mission.  He believed deeply that every Christian is invited to share in the Church’s missionary spirit, whether through prayer, support, or service on the ground.   On October 22, the

For all of us at Mission Doctors Association, this Sunday holds a special place in our hearts. Our Mission Doctors serve in partnership with the Church, providing lifesaving medical care and a witness of faith in some of the most underserved regions of Africa and Latin America. Their work is one expression of the Church’s