Serve Alongside Healers & Builders – East Africa Team

You don’t have to choose between being an engineer and being a missionary. You don't have to choose between becoming a doctor and serving God’s kingdom.

This summer, a team in East Africa invites you into their lives and work to explore what it might look like to use your profession, your relationships and your whole life for God’s mission.

You will live and serve alongside the Healing & Building team. Much of their work centers around a large regional hospital, but their ministry extends far beyond medicine.

• See what happens when a surgeon views the operating room as both a place of healing and discipleship.
• Learn how an engineer can design and build something that may serve patients and families for generations.
• Share meals and build relationships with African physicians who are being trained to become surgeons and Christian leaders.
• Encounter patients who have traveled from places where Christian workers have difficulty going.
• Allow the faith and experience of African believers to challenge and deepen your own.

Our hope is not simply that you gain a few months of overseas experience. We want you to see, serve, learn and discern. Most importantly, come willing to ask God a difficult question:

“How could You use my education, my profession, my relationships and my whole life for Your purposes?”

Potential Activities

• Study the local language and culture
• Teach English
• Shadow surgeons, physicians and other healthcare professionals 
• Explore engineering, construction and hospital infrastructure projects 
• Serve alongside African medical professionals and hospital staff 
• Participate in discipleship, Bible study, worship and prayer 
• Learn from African believers and local church leaders and visit local ministries 
• Engage with patients and families from diverse ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds 
• Learn about ministry among Muslim and other hard-to-reach communities 
• Participate in practical service projects around the hospital and community 
• Experience hospitality through meals and time with local families 
• Explore mountains, waterfalls, markets, villages and cultural sites 
• Learn from long-term missionaries about cross-cultural life and ministry and ways to integrate faith with medicine, engineering and other professions 
• Pray for patients, hospital staff, local ministries and unreached peoples 
• Reflect on and discern God's direction for future mission involvement 

Have an internship requirement to fulfill? We may be able to help with that. Please contact us for more information.