Serve With Love
India Mission Trip July 10 - 21, 2024
We have medical professionals, including MDs, DDS, pharmacists, nurses, other allied health professionals, and students who will be volunteering for a mission trip to Falakata, India.
OUR MISSION:To provide medical exams and treat patients with prescription medicine. We will offer dental exams and extractions, teeth cleaning and restoration, and palliative treatment. Outside medical service, we will organize Vacation Bible School, evangelical meetings, and an ESL program.
In addition, Dr. Floyd Hayes, PUC Professor of Biology will lead a field trip to see wildlife before the medical service and possibly afterward.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
Dr. Backil Sung, PUC Professor of Biology
bsung@puc.edu
(707) 965-6633
Previous Mission Trips
Fiji Mission Trip March 21 - April 2, 2024
The nursing and health science department sponsors an annual mission trip to Mana Island, Fiji. Five hundred people live on the remote island and lack any healthcare. 17 students join PUC Nursing Professor Sandy Ringer to gain public health hours and provide non-acute care to locals in Fiji. This year, they also brought along dentists to provide oral care and physical health needs.
Fiji
March 24 - April 4 2023
Under the leadership of former Missions Director Fabio Maia and two co-leaders, Biology Professor Floyd Hayes and Nursing Professor Sandra Ringer, this year’s mission trip included 17 students. Nicolette Piaubert, a PUC nursing professor, also volunteered and helped lead healthcare services.
Kenya
June 19 - June 28 2023
The school provided education and care to Masai girls whose families forced them into child marriages. PUC painted school buildings and provided supplies.
Southwestern Kenya
March 24 - April 4, 2022
PUC donated computers and a projector to a girls’ secondary school and assisted local teachers, worked construction of a new clinic building, provided clinic health care, and hosted Vacation Bible School.
Southwestern Kenya
August 19-31, 2021
Painted the girls’ secondary school and provided health care in the clinic
Mana Island, Fiji
July 16-27, 2019
Providing snorkeling gear to school children and took them snorkeling.
Southwestern Kenya
March 22 - April 1, 2019
Helped with the construction of a new building at a girls’ secondary school, painted a non-denominational Bible training center, provided clinic health care, and organized Vacation Bible School.
Southwestern Kenya
September 2-12, 2018
Painted buildings at a clinic and provided health care.
Mana Island, Fiji
March 22 - April 1, 2018
Worked on the construction of a new home for school teachers and provided health care in the clinic.
Amazonas, Brazil
December 31, 2016 - January 9, 2017
Worked on constructing a new home for health care workers, gave English classes for children, provided a community health fair, and organized Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 18-27, 2016
Helped construct a new home for health care workers, taught English classes for children, provided clinic health care, and hosted Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 20-30, 2015
Constructed a new home for health care workers, painted a health clinic, delivered water filters to communities, taught English classes for children, provided health care, and organized Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 21-30, 2014
Constructed a new clinic, taught English classes for children, and hosted a Vacation Bible School.
Amazonas, Brazil
March 22-31, 2013
Painted a mission compound and provided a community health fair.
Medical Mission Trips
Indonesia
July 18-23, 2022
PUC repaired cleft lip/palate patients, removed masses on the skin, prescribed and provided medicines to patients with medical symptoms, and counseled and educated health messages in collaboration with local churches there.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 15-19, 2019
Five physicians and surgeons, four nurses, and 15 volunteers repaired cleft lip/palates and prescribed and counseled medical symptoms.
Medan, Indonesia
July 16-20, 2018
A medical mission group repaired cleft lip/palates and prescribed and counseled medical symptoms.
Battambang, Cambodia
July 13 – 24, 2017
Organized a medical mission group that prescribed, counseled medical patients, and removed masses on the skin, and financially supported a local church to open an educational institute.
Manyara, Tanzania
July 8 – 18, 2016
Organized medical mission group and prescribed, counseled medical patients, and removed masses on the skin.
Tumen and Yuxi, China
Aug 14 – Sep 8, 2015
Prescribed and counseled medical patients, removed masses on the skin, and gave health lectures.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Aug 29 – Sep 7, 2014
Prescribed and counseled medical patients and removed masses on the skin.
Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
Aug 27 – Sep 10, 2013
Prescribed and counseled medical patients and removed skin masses.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Aug 9 – 30, 2012
PUC worked with Adventist International Medical Missionaries to prescribe, counsel medical patients, and remove skin masses.