Our Mission

Volunteers in Medical Missions is a short-term medical mission outreach with long-term goals. Our desire is to partner with believers in cross-cultural settings who are making disciples and to use our medical experience and resources to display mercy and help promote the expansion of the gospel in those areas.

In the Village Health Worker (VHW) program a person living in a remote and medically isolated community is elected by his peers and trained by a local physician to handle basic but potentially serious illnesses. These illnesses would include pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, dengue, meningitis, anemia, fever, UTI, URI, ear infections, GI parasites and asthma. The medical supplies are donated – currently through the Watson Foundation in Texas.

This outreach is monitored by a local physician and periodic audits are conducted through visiting VIMM team physicians. The VHW is paid $50 per week or more depending on experience. The program is now in place and is functioning in three remote Honduran village clusters with the real possibility of adding a fourth. Prior to the initiation of this program the only medical help available to those living in these areas were the yearly visits of the VIMM teams. They are now provided with regular care and the VIMM teams, working with the local Church of God pastor, can now reach further into the unreached interior of the mountains of Honduras.