Island Off East Coast of Africa 2026 Recap
Growing the Kingdom and Providing Life-Changing Medical Care Off the East Coast of Africa
Millions of people off the East Coast of Africa don’t have access to critical healthcare or medical education.
Concerning issues for people on the Island off the East Coast of Africa:
Medical care is difficult to access for many reasons, including travel obstacles, costs, and more.
There is no access to clean, filtered water. Villages along the coast draw their drinking water directly from the ocean. The salt intake from this unfiltered seawater is a major driver of the widespread high blood pressure our medical team saw in nearly every village — a condition that goes undiagnosed and untreated for most of their lives.
Open evangelism is illegal here. The people in these villages live in one of the most closed nations in the world to the gospel — sharing Christ openly can carry real legal and social risk, which means most will never hear it in their lifetime unless someone brings it to them discreetly, the way our team did.
Our Mission In The Island Off The East Coast of Africa:
To bring doctors and medical professionals to serve and share the gospel
in one of the most spiritually closed nations in the world.
Objective 1
Share the Gospel With the Unreached.
300 people sat down one-on-one with a member of our team to hear the gospel and be prayed for. Eighteen made first-time decisions to follow Jesus, and five were baptized before our team left.
Objective 2
Provide Life-Saving Healthcare
Our team saw 1,224 patients across four days and four villages, treating high blood pressure, fungal infections, and more — much of it tied to limited access to clean water and regular medical care.
Objective 3
Empowering Healthier Communities
Our team led health education sessions on handwashing and basic exercise, fit patients with free eyeglasses, and distributed shoes to children through our partnership with Because International.
Our Team
Our fifteen-person team — Sheri and fourteen team members, all women — recently spent four days serving four remote villages on an island off the east coast of Africa — a place where sharing the gospel openly isn’t legally possible, and where most people have never had the chance to hear it.
What followed was four days of answered prayer: eighteen new believers, five baptisms, and a community reminded that they are seen and loved by a God who goes before them.
Thank you to Nona, Tammy, Jacki, Sophia, Rosemary, Alex, Kimberly, Robbie, Sheila, Keisha, Brenda, Kelly, Jennifer, and Alisha for saying yes to God’s call and joining Sheri on this trip!
Updates & Highlights From Our Trip
Salvation, medical care, and other answers to prayer.
A Man Named Habbakuk
On the third day, a man sat down in front of Sheri while she was doing patient triage. He gave his name as Habakkuk. He told her he’d given his life to Christ several months earlier, but had never been baptized. That afternoon, fifteen believers made the walk to the water; five felt safe enough to go through with it, including Habakkuk — baptized in the ocean, in a place where that choice carries real risk.
The Girl Who Started Walking
In the second village, team member Alex prayed over a six-year-old girl who hadn’t been able to walk. She got up immediately and started walking. The same day, five people came through the clinic who had suddenly and unexplainably lost their sight, including one college student — something our team still doesn’t have an explanation for, and still prays about.
Breath Restored, Pain Gone
In the same village where our team met Habakkuk, a two-month-old baby was struggling to breathe. A team member prayed over her, and her breathing returned to normal immediately. A woman suffering from severe leg pain was prayed for by one of the missionaries working alongside us, and the pain left her on the spot.
Robbie Shares Her Story of Serving With MPFC
Our Translator Shares Her Testimony!
Thank you to all who support this trip through prayer and financial support!
Long-Term Impact
Eighteen new believers and five baptisms mean there is now an open door for the gospel in a community that had almost none.
A Ministry of Health official personally toured our clinic on the final day — the first time in years of this work that someone from that level of government has come to see our team's medical care firsthand.Our prayer is that this leads to greater government oversight to make healthcare more accessible
Hundreds of patients now carry forward a basic understanding of how to protect their health and their families' health; handwashing, exercise, and awareness of what's driving the high blood pressure we saw in nearly every village.
Interested in Joining an Upcoming Mission?
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
