Today is World Cancer Day. Cancer is #2 among the leading causes of death in both the United States and the world. Approximately 75% of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, countries where the number of cases is also rising most rapidly. Never are the medical and ethical dilemmas in mission medicine more …
Our Mission Doctors Auxiliary truly has a ‘Heart for the World”! On February 24, 2018 we celebrate together the great work of Mission Doctors Association and will have the opportunity to honor Dr. Mark and Mrs. Molly Druffner, whose commitment to the people of Tanzania has lasted more than seven years and continues to change …
Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been set aside as a Federal holiday to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. There is so much that can be said, so much that can be quoted. Yet I hope we can take time today to pause and read his …
On January 14, 1964 Msgr. Anthony Brouwers lost his battle with cancer. The founder of Mission Doctors, the visionary of the Lay Mission Movement lived a short life, yet he did more in those years than many given a longer life. We would like to invite you to read more about our remarkable founder and …
If you’ve considered serving long-term as a Mission Doctor, we provide the opportunity to come together at Discernment Weekends to learn about the formation program, and opportunities where you can share your gifts, and live your faith! If you are considering serving long-term as a Mission Doctors please plan to join us on February 2-4! …
A new year begins and we Catholics also begin the year with the Feast of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Could there be a better way to start a year? Last year, Pope Francis said of this special day “To celebrate Mary as Mother of God and our mother at the beginning of …
From all of us at Mission Doctors Association, the Board of Directors, our staff and the doctors who serve, we want to wish everyone a very blessed Christmas. As Mary and Joseph welcomed new life with the birth of Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem, the incarnation of God brings us hope and light and …
The Fourth Sunday of Advent with Christmas only a day away. Have we been able to spend some time to wake up to God around us? Have we reflected on the reason for this joyful season? Have we reflected on Christ’s birth as a vulnerable baby? So much to reflect upon at such a busy …
Third week of Advent with Christmas slightly over a week away, are you panicked and burdened with so much yet to do? Presents to buy and wrap? Christmas cards to send? Dinners to plan and invitations to mail? It is that time of year and hard for most of us to focus on what is …
Those of us in southern California know about the desert, which can be reached within three hours from Los Angeles. A landscape where life is reduced to a scale and number which can be shocking at first; there are no towering pine trees, wide expanses of grass, deer or bears in the Mojave Desert. But …