MCWA’s goal is to represent Jesus Christ through the medical work done by Western missionaries and volunteers at Hôpital de Meskine, located in the tiny village of Meskine. Through loving medical care, missionaries are able to give physical help as well as to portray in word and deed the gospel - which brings eternal healing - to hundreds of patients who visit the hospital each week.

FEATURED STORY - Doctor’s Vision Changes Life of Young Boy
By Dr. John Baigent
Medical Director, Hôpital de Meskine

Dr. John Baigent heard a gentle knock at the door. He and his wife Lesley had just sat down for a breakfast of grapefruit before beginning another busy summer day at Hôpital de Meskine. The screen door allowed the comfortable African breezes to flow through the house.

"Who could this be?" Dr. Baigent recalls asking. Lesley was first at the door. When I got there I found her talking with a tall, good looking young man whose faced seemed familiar, although not much else about him did.

I turned to Lesley and asked who it was. She seemed unsure. Then, together, we both exclaimed, "Guipelbe!"

And with that name came a flood of emotions and the memories of the tiny boy from Chad with the big smile who captured the hearts of people a continent away...