Three days of free medical treatment, with Thomas Furrer and Olaniyi Olaobaju and a team of volunteers at St. Thomas Clinic free medical outreach in Port Harcourt.

At the Dedication Service for Graceland Hospital in Gusau, with Archbishop Ali Lamido, Bishop John Danbinta, several other Bishops from northern Nigeria and a representative of the Emir ( leader of the Muslim community).

Thanksgiving Service for the new hospital at Christ Church Cathedral in Gusau on Sunday morning. This is part of the offering time. No ushers passing baskets around. Everyone dances to the altar to present their own gift to God. The offering portion of the service is often the most lively. This particular service lasted 3 and 1/2 hours, which is the normal length for a typical Sunday.

Thanks to God Almighty for making it successful. Below are a few images with details in captions. 

​Elizabeth makes for our first case on the "RURAL DOCTOR".

She is 25, an orphan whose parents passed away some 5years ago leaving her with four younger ones who depend on her for their livelihood as a newborn would his mother's breast.
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Two weeks back, she was brought to the facility from one of the rural areas in Kaduna state with complains of difficulty in breathing, cough, dizziness and abdominal pain. Exam showed she was pale, fast breathing, generalized lymph node swelling, high fever persistently; had a massive spleen of about 20cm from the left costal border

Would you like to help us bring affordable medical care to thousands of beautiful children like her ? Send us a tax-deductuble donation. Your money will be well spent. 97% of every donated dollar goes directly to pay doctors, nurses, midwives, lab technicians, pharmacists and other medical staff,and to build new medical clinics. We began with one clinic in 2003. We will soon open our fourth medical facility. We need your help to do more.
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Serving people in need is our greatest joy. Most ( not all) of the people who join us on our medical mission trips are followers of Jesus.

Jesus tells us that when we feed a hungry person, or clothe a naked person, or heal a sick person in his name, we are feeding and clothing and healing Jesus Himself.

Jesus says " As you did it to the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me." ( Matthew 25: 31 to 46)​

One of the best parts of medical mission trips is falling in love with the children.

In fact, it's the best part.

And it changes you.  On the inside.

When you return home, you see the world differently.

Many people, including the young woman pictured here, describe our medical mission trips as a " life-changing experience".​

These are the people we are helping.

A big thank you to everyone who has supported the work of Kateri Medical Services.  Your contributions help us to help about 20,000 people every year.

You can make a big impact with your donations. It costs us about $4.50 to help each person. A donation of $45 brings medical care to 10 people.  $450 helps 100 people with medical care. $4,500 helps 1,000 people.

And one more thing. 96.5 % of your donation goes directly to building clinics, paying doctors and nurses and lab technicians and pharmacists. We keep our overhead very low. All of the Americans on our team work for no pay. And we all pay for our own travel expenses when we travel to Nigeria.