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We are a grace-based, international missions organization bringing together mission and spiritual renewal.

At Serge, we realize we need the grace of the gospel in our own lives, even as we take the message of God’s grace to others.

As we bring the good news to the fray of the world, we seek to care for the most vulnerable: the poor, the disabled, the bereaved, the weak, and the sick.

From short-term trips to long-term missions – we want to see the power of God’s grace transform your own life and motivate and sustain you to move into the lives of others – particularly those who do not yet know Jesus.

 

Meet Serge missionaries and recruiters at our booth!
Main Building, Fellowship Hall 1
Booths 1001 and 1002

Our Ministry Approach

Our approach to medical missions is holistic – curative, preventative, and sustainable.

We send medical professionals
to provide quality care where it is sorely lacking.

Our doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and physical therapists partner with church and government health centers, often in collaboration with other mission agencies, to provide safe maternity and delivery care, treat vulnerable children, diagnose and comfort the sick, and restore vision to the blind. These types of hands-on care provide natural opportunities to pray with families in desperate times, and to clearly communicate God’s tangible love and presence in their lives.

We serve the health of the community in preventative and sustainable ways.

HIV prevention, health and hygiene education, and nutritional supplementation are examples of programs that address health problems at a root level. Our teams explore local beliefs and look for ways to come alongside communities in their desire for healthier lives. The difficulty of changing behavior opens the door to show how much all of us need the gospel.

How the work gets done

We Work in Teams

Serge prioritizes sending missionaries as teams. Teams provide missionaries with a supportive social life, shared prayer and worship, and the shared strength of working cross-culturally together. Whether members of a team are focused on a single business or engaged in multiple ventures, we seek to create teams with shared vision so that each individual’s work is strengthened by others’ gifts and efforts.

All Medical Work is Integrated

We believe that healing the sick is an inherently good act and affirms human life that is given by God. We bring healing alongside a verbal, Christ-centered gospel proclamation so that needs are addressed holistically. While the context determines how integration occurs, we always seek ways to integrate medical service in culturally appropriate ways.

We Equip Local People

Jesus cured disease and led people to healthier living, but He also passed on His ministry to His closest disciples. Serge teams teach medical students, student nurses, interns, and residents at all levels. We equip local people to care for their own communities, prayerfully passing on the skills and opportunities with which we have been blessed. These students will be the leaders – of both the medical community and the church – for generations to come.

Sustainable Ministry

Serge medical missionaries serve in high-need communities. We recognize the temptation toward overwork and burnout, so we work to provide our staff with emotional, mental, and spiritual encouragement, guidance, and respite. We want our medical staff to first find an identity as a son or daughter of God and a healer second.

Current Needs

Our missionary doctors, nurses, physical therapists, nutritionists, surgeons, and other health professionals are showing the love of Jesus through hands-on medical care where it is most needed, setting up public health programs to prevent disease, and equipping national health care workers to do the same for future generations.

If you’re a trained medical professional who wants to combine your skills with your passion for sharing the gospel, we’d love to talk with you!

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Sessions at GMHC

Dr. Alyssa Pfister

Enduring Hard Times with Joy

Main Building AT 106/109
November 7, 2024, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
In person and virtual session

Living and working in settings with overwhelming poverty, malnutrition, disease, and death can result in accumulating stress, trauma, and burnout. How is it possible to endure in these settings for years? What strategies enable us to not only endure but to do so with joy? We'll discuss the value of remembering with gratitude, lamenting in community with national and missionary colleagues, and looking forward with hope.

https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/enduring-hard-times-with-joy

Dr. Randy Bond

Using Healthcare Education as a Mission Field in a Global Setting

Main Building ATCR 206
November 8, 2024, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
In person and virtual session

Becoming involved in healthcare education can provide a way for healthcare workers and laypersons to be part of a strategic plan to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Deciding to use this strategy as a bridge to the Gospel means understanding what it means to serve in a cross-cultural context before ever going anywhere. Learn about this exciting opportunity to meet the needs of communities, build relationships and lasting partnerships, and show the love of Jesus.

https://www.medicalmissions.com/events/gmhc-2024/sessions/using-healthcare-education-as-a-mission-field-in-a-global-setting

Friday Lunch @ GMHC with Serge

Hear from Serge missionary and regional leader Dr. Alyssa Pfister, who lives and works in Burundi, East Africa, as a med/peds doctor caring for patients as well as teaching and discipling medical students at Kibuye Hope Hospital and Hope Africa University. Dr. Pfister is a MedSend grant recipient and Samaritan’s Purse Post-Residency Program alumna (2009-2011).

Serge, with our partners MedSend and Samaritan’s Purse Post-Residency program, will be glad to engage with you at this lunch.

Please grab a boxed meal and join us on Friday, November 8 at 12pm, Main Building AT218.

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