All posts by Laura

In July 2017 I spent three weeks in East Asia on a prayer trip. A team of five of us (two from the UK, two...

'But surely missionaries never get depressed?’ blurted an audience member as I finished speaking on home assignment about my work as International Medical Adviser. It...

Khun pastors a small house church on the outskirts of a city in Southeast Asia. One day, Khun went to the city’s main hospital and...

Ever since coming to serve in this remote mountainous area largely populated by a minority people group in Southeast Asia I have been struck by...

'God has really brought us together', said the hospital director at the end of our short-term trip. Perhaps he did not mean it in quite...

Medical Advice Away From Home Offering advice is perhaps best done with some trepidation. Sometimes the stakes are high, the risks uncertain, the circumstances are...

My first introduction to world mission came from my parents’ interest and advocacy for the Leprosy Mission. I have early memories of slide presentations vividly...

Do you know any doctor in your country who can cure her?’ An anxious and embarrassed mother held her 7-year-old girl who was born with...

1978 was a year of special prayer throughout OMF for spiritual breakthrough in Thailand. On January 14, Thailand’s Children’s Day, several OMF families left Manorom...

In the 1970s David, a former Malay soldier with leprosy, received care from an OMF nurse in Thailand: ‘when Minka put my stinking foot on...