Since the beginning of this decade, medical missions have seen extreme highs and extreme lows. Now, almost six years since the Covid pandemic essentially shut down short-term missions, we are seeing fruit from the seeds of continuous endurance sown.
In this past fiscal year* alone, Blessings International marked the most lives ever impacted by the power of medicine—an estimated 12.2 million people in 108 nations and territories. More exports left our warehouse than ever before, and we saw 19.5% more lives in the United States impacted than last year.
We hope the following stories will encourage you about the medical work that is happening thanks to the seeds so many have sown and watered.
Seeds We Can All Sow
- The Gospel
- Prayer
- Medicine
- Hope
- Finances
- Faithfulness• Service
- ...the list goes on and on
SOWING SEEDS OF PRAYER AND SERVICE INTERNATIONALLY: The Regan Family
TOGO, AFRICA
What began for Dr. Jason Regan as a willingness to go wherever the Lord could use him has become an annual mission tripwith his family.
At first, it took some searching to find where to use his ER skills.
“There’s not a single person in my church who has done missionary work on the medical side,” Dr. Regan said. After attending conferences, learning about Blessings International, and talking to sending agencies, he was asked if he’d be interested in serving in Togo.
“Where’s that?” was his first reaction.
His first trip to Togo was in 2021. Now, every year since 2023,Dr. Regan, his wife Staci, and his daughter Reese, who is a medical student, return to the Hospital of Hope (Hospital del’Esperance) in Mango, a remote area of northern Togo. They volunteer for three weeks at a time, providing care and Christ’s love to the people who come to the hospital.
Hospital of Hope is an extensive 65-bed facility, run by Association of Baptists for World Evangelism(ABWE). It is equipped with multiple awards, from operating rooms to a neo-natal intensive care unit, and it helps people from not only Togo, but neighboring countries BurkinaFaso, Benin, Ghana, and even other West African countries likeNiger and Nigeria.
Run by 140 Togolese staff members and over forty people from other countries, it provides remarkable ministry to families at their most difficult times and is known as the “hospital that prays.”
Dr. Regan typically serves in either the emergency room or on the patient floor, which is usually mostly filled with kids.Malaria and anemia are prevalent among the children. Because of the Muslim culture, polygamy is common, and the mothers who come the long distances with their children are usually alone because their husbands need to stay with their other wives and children. At such times, as the hospital meets their physical needs, the staff and volunteers are able to attend to the mother’s and child’s spiritual needs. The women and children are often open to the Gospel, prayer, and the JesusFilm.
Through many seeds of prayer, lives are changing one family at a time. Not just African families—the Regan family too. They plan to return again next year...and the year after that.
SOWING SEEDS OF HOPE: HOMS
HAITI
Violence in Haiti is on the brink of destroying a new generation of children. The children face displacement, forced gang recruitment, kidnapping, sexual violence, trauma, and malnutrition. Yet, despite these overwhelming circumstances, the Haiti Orphanage Medical Support Project (HOMS) reaches out to help them live. The staff strive to bring hope, health, education, nutrition, and medicine to each child in five orphanages in the remote Belladere area, near the Dominican Republic border.
Francia, the nurse, visits the orphanages to provide deworming medication, vitamins, and medications, and provides education on clean water and hygiene. In instances of acute medical need, she connects the children with local medical clinics.
However, even when travel is safe, very few medical facilities are available, and medicine, oxygen, electricity, and trained personnel are scarce.
Faith and hope in this situation are important. The effects of trauma, violence, and gang attacks have created fear, oppression, and hopelessness in the children and community. On a few occasions, Francia has held a semi-mobile clinic in a church, with a local doctor and a volunteer physiotherapist. This has helped to provide care for children, staff members, and congregants. Along with medical care, Francia and the team have led the group in worship and prayer. This helps the staff, children, and medical team to refocus on God, His hope, and faithfulness.
“Our ‘cup of water’ [given in Jesus’ name] happens to be a pill that removes worms and allows their bodies to be nourished by whatever food they can source, or a vitamin that strengthens them when the available food doesn’t contain enough of those nutrients. It might be a treatment for scabies or a skin infection that might otherwise turn into a serious, maybe even life-threatening, infection.”
- HOMS Director, Debi Lammert, MSN, FNP, RN
This service is done even at risk of her own life, but God’s grace and protection continue to protect her and the children. This summer, agang attacked Francia’s area, forcing her to flee her home. After much prayer on her behalf, Debi Lammert, the director of HOMS, was able to reach Francia and ask if she was okay. Her response was, “I don’t know ifI am okay, but I am still alive.”
Please keep sowing seeds of prayer and financial help into Haiti.
SOWING SEEDS OF LIFE: Abortion Reversal
TEXAS, USA
The FDA has made it exceptionally easy for women to obtain abortion pills through the mail in their first trimester. Many women do not realize the risks involved in taking the pills, and for some women, they regret taking them.
A young woman named Alisa* came into one of our partner clinics in Texas, Pregnancy Help 4 U, distraught because she had taken the first abortion pills, Mifepristone, and now regretted her decision. The pregnancy resource center was able to immediately administer progesterone to reverse the chemical abortion’s first step.
Alisa’s story, thankfully, had a happy outcome. She carried the baby to full term and gave birth to a healthy boy, whom she named Josiah (which, incidentally, means “God supports” or “God heals.”)
Pregnancy centers are essential in reversing chemical abortions. They can administer progesterone to women who change their minds after the first pill. With teamwork, the medicine from Blessings International and patient care from the centers help a child’s life continue.
Tonya, the Executive Director of Pregnancy Help 4 You, said, “We are grateful for the teamwork that allowed this baby’s life to continue. With 82% of our at-risk clients choosing life, Blessings International is making a huge impact on the community.”
*Name changed for privacy
Emergency Disaster Relief
Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa hit just as we were drafting this newsletter. At the time, we sent out an appeal for funding for ourEmergency Disaster Relief fund, and were blessed by everyone’s ready response to what was forecast as one of the biggest storms to hit Jamaica.
Teams ordered disaster relief even before Melissa hit land, and thanks to our donors, we were able to discount significant amounts of these critical orders.
Orders are still coming it, so it’s not too late to give if you haven’t already. Donations to the Emergency Disaster Relief fund help us stay ready at any time, for any disaster.
Thank you for providing emergency disaster relief!
Sow with Us
God is reaching the hurting through His people. This coming year, we look forward to the new partnerships He arranges, whether partners in the field or financial partners. Would you take two minutes before the end of 2025 to 1) tell a friend or colleague about Blessings International’s ministry, and 2) to give a gift of any size to one of the causes we’ve shared in this newsletter. Each of us doing what we can—no matter how simple—can sow seeds of life for generations.
As we all know, seeds sown today do not bear fruit right away. Sometimes it takes weeks, months, or years to see the results. But if we’re faithful, one day, generations will stand where we do now—like harvesters before a field they did not plant—and they’ll see a harvest. And what a glorious day that will be.
