This spring brigade season was a time of “firsts”. Tusculum Church of Christ (top photo) kicked it off with a medical brigade in Lucerna, Ocotepeque, our first time doing a clinic in this community. Over the course of three clinic days, the group attended to...
Our 4th surgical team returned in February and successfully completed 54 surgeries over the course of four and a half days. They performed gallbladder removals, hernia repairs, and tonsillectomies. The impact of their work went far beyond helping the hospital reduce the number of people...
by Donna Waldron One of the most productive ways for short term missionaries to impact Western Honduras is through village medical clinics. A village is selected, and we set up a temporary clinic that serves approximately 1000 people in 3 days. Each person receives a medical...
Ben Carson is quoted as saying, “God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?”. Ben Carson is known for many things. A...
by Caleb Gossett The balance between evangelism and humanitarian work has been debated by Christians for years. There are those who believe the Church should be solely focused on evangelizing the lost. On the other hand, there are those who believe our principal focus should be...
While interviewing a few of the patients about their overall experience, each person highlighted the same thing: the excellent patient care they received. Even with the language barrier, the North American surgical team was able to make each patient feel valued and safe. Many lives...
Over the years those of us here at Mission UpReach have read many articles, blogs and posts that present arguments both for and against short-term missions. Sometimes, from our perspective, it is surprising how many people in the US, who have little to no short-term...
During the first week of October, Mission UpReach hosted its first ever surgical brigade in a small hospital in Gracias, Lempira, about 60 minutes outside of Santa Rosa de Copán. 14 medical professionals traveled from the US to Honduras to assist us in making our...
by H. Kendle Yates, M.D. Across the globe there are a number of opportunities to do surgical missions. My wife and I are concerned with people’s physical health, but we are even more concerned with people’s spiritual health. Mission UpReach allows us to address both. Restoring...
We are happy to announce the launching of an additional outreach effort. As most of you know, we host numerous “brigades,” or short-term mission teams each year. Those currently consists of medical brigade, VBS brigades, and construction brigades. For several years we have dreamed of adding...