It's already another busy day at the hospital as eighteen-year-old Mahipaul is brought to the front doors. Transported in the back of a three-wheeled auto rickshaw, severe burns cover most of his body after a rat knocked a kerosene lamp onto his bed during the night.
"I believe medical missions is one of the greatest ways in the world to reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I would love to open more and more hospitals."

—Joyce Meyer
Watching him try to cope with so much pain is difficult for his family, but just one year ago, Mahipaul may not have had a chance to even survive such an accident. With the next nearest facility close to a hundred miles away, they are just so grateful for this hospital in the "middle of nowhere."

Here in the small village of Chandrakal, India, something is happening that you will not find in a 100-mile radius—people are receiving free, Christian-based health care. And the demand never stops. The people come seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day because they have heard what Joyce Meyer Ministries is doing in this little pocket of their country.

Through the support of our friends and partners, we have transformed the dilapidated ruins of an old Methodist mission into a large general hospital that serves Chandrakal residents and the people from the fifteen surrounding villages. More than a hundred patients a day walk through the doors hoping for an answer to their suffering.

In January 2006, Dave and Joyce had the opportunity to officially dedicate the hospital and see firsthand what it means to the community.

"Almost 100,000 people in these surrounding villages desperately need medical care," Joyce says, "but they have no way to pay for it and no actual way to get it. Through the grace of God, we have been able to open this hospital, and it is providing health care and life for thousands."

The hospital is well-equipped with a surgical theater, a laboratory to conduct blood tests, an emergency room, a gynecology office, and a labor and delivery ward. We even have a special building used solely to treat AIDS patients. In addition, we have a full-service ambulance that provides transportation for patients if they cannot make it on their own. This is something they could have only dreamt of before.

India has one of the highest rates of HIV and AIDS, and those who suffer from this disease are often ostracized and shut out of their communities. However, at our hospital, these patients experience the opportunity to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally. Here, they are truly accepted and loved.

We have also begun construction on our new children's AIDS hospice and orphanage, which is being built nearby our hospital in Chandrakal.
Each day literally thousands of young children with AIDS go without medical care. But with your help, we will be able to provide hope and a future for those suffering from disease in this region.

Through medical missions, together we are reaching out to thousands of people every day who normally couldn’t afford treatment…people who have no other place to turn for help…people just like Mahipaul. Today, Mahipaul is alive and recovering. Because of your support, he not only received the professional emergency treatment he needed, but during his stay, he also received Jesus Christ and walked out of our facility a whole new man—spirit, soul and body.

A half a world away, in the very heart of the Amazon Basin, others just like Mahipaul are also receiving lifesaving medical treatment.

Here, just south of the equator, Joyce Meyer Ministries has teamed up with Project Amazon to fully support the operation of one medical boat each month. Traveling from village to village, our teams provide dental care on the upper deck of the boat, where four dental chairs are occupied around the clock. All other medical care is administered in a clinic we set up in their village.

During the day we meet their physical needs. At night we meet their spiritual needs, inviting the villagers to come watch a presentation of the JESUS film and receive ministry.

"I am so happy and very thankful for this," says Josivana, the father of two children. "I know that God is making this possible. If I had to wait until I had money, my children would have had to wait for months to go to the dentist."

And while the Amazon River is a primary source of water, it's also a major cause of bacterial infections and illness. To help alleviate this problem, we have recently installed high-quality water filters in 300 homes. This outreach has made a way for us to care for their bodies, which has in turn opened the door for us to offer them the Living Water—Jesus Christ.

Friends and partners, thank you so much for your faithful support that is allowing us to touch the lives of so many precious people in India, South America and various other nations through our lifesaving medical outreaches. The love and care they receive is not only healing their bodies, but it is also introducing them to The Healer, who is able to restore every single part of their lives.

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Our hospital in Chandrakal, India, provides free medical care for more than 3,000 people each month.

  • In 2006 we broke ground for a new children's AIDS hospice and orphanage in India.

  • We have installed 300 water filters in homes along the Amazon River and continue to meet the medical and spiritual needs of thousands through our medical boat outreaches.
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    When you think of the word humility, perhaps specific people come to your mind—maybe a relative, a friend or a mentor. In Chandrakal, India, it usually means the name Dr. Ashok Kumar.

    Three years ago, Dr. Kumar gathered his wife and kids, left his successful medical practice, and traveled to this small pocket of the world to serve God and the less fortunate. Today, he is the chief physician at our hospital in Chandrakal.

    Perhaps greater than anything else is Dr. Kumar's belief in the power of prayer. "We start every patient here with prayer," he said, "because we believe in the power of the supernatural more than the natural."

    During our team's visit, we encountered a young boy who desperately needed a blood transfusion. His life depended on it. As you can imagine, the supply of blood in this part of the world is extremely low, if it exists at all. In the midst of the trauma, we overheard Dr. Kumar order a blood transfusion. Almost immediately, he stopped them and said, "I am his blood type; I will give him the transfusion."

    If you ever wonder how your mission dollars at Joyce Meyer Ministries are being used, then we ask you to think about men like Dr. Kumar. He carries the heart of our ministry. He carries the heart of Christ.