"The purpose of the Hancock County Medical Mission shall be to serve as an information, coordination, and funding agency for medical missions originating in the Hancock County, Maine area."
Though our mission is "non-sectarian, non-partisan and non-profit", we connect with Christian faith-based organizations such as the former Christian Medical and Dental Society of Richardson, Texas; and, more recently, Medical Ministry International of Plano, Texas; or Global Outreach of Tupelo, Mississippi.
Our in-country hosts have included: a career missionary nurse in Ecuador and her Ecuadorian support staff; an evangelical Christian hospital (COMBASE) in Bolivia; and a Catholic relief organization, CARITAS, also in Bolivia.
Participants of Hancock County Medical Mission need not adhere to any particular faith, but are requested to respect that of our hosts and of the people we serve.
Whatever our faith, certainly we can appreciate the words of Jesus in Matthew 25:35-40:
'For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat,
I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was
a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and
you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was
in prison and you came to visit me.'
[And they asked him, When did we do these things for you?]
'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of
these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
