LIMM is happy to introduce to you Jamielynn Tinkey and to share the good news that thanks to you, we are able to provide a $1500 travel grant so that she can be part of a Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Mercy Medical Team (MMT) this spring.

“My name is Jamielynn Tinkey, and I serve as a GEO Missionary to the Latin America and Caribbean Region of mission through the LCMS Office of International Ministry! I am 23 years old, a registered nurse and I currently serve on the regional team as the Human Care Coordinator for our missionaries and their families serving in 10 distinct countries across Latin America. I am delighted to be able to join the upcoming Mercy Medical Team to Tanzania and work alongside missionaries and team members to provide care, both physically and spiritually. Not only that, but my team throughout Latin America looks forward to working alongside LIMM and MMTs in the future. Because of this travel grant, I am able to make this trip, where I can put my skills to work as our team serves and learns together! Thank you, LIMM!!”

Sarah Kanoy and Stephanie Schulte are home from West Africa. Please click the link below to read about how God is at work through Women’s Health Education!

Sarah Kanoy – The Gift of Understanding

Below is a note from Stephanie Schulte:

Stephanie Schulte – West Africa

Sarah Kanoy is a friend of LIMM and of every one of you. Your donations in the past made it possible for Sarah, along with Stephanie Schulte and Molly Christensen, to complete Community Health Education “Train the Trainer” courses before heading to Africa. Next month the three of them will present a “Women’s Cycle of Life” Seminar in West Africa, providing much needed knowledge that will in turn be shared by those attending with many others.
We will be posting more from Sarah and Steph during the seminar, and wanted you to see the Thank You below. Sarah thanks you and so do we!

Please click here to read Sarah’s thank you Thank you for LIMM – Sarah Kanoy

LIMM welcomes Drs. Joel and Scarlet Holcombe to our Board of Directors. Joel and Scarlet live in Tallahassee, FL. They actually met on a mission trip, and their love for short term missions has not decreased. Joel is an emergency medicine physician, working at Colquitt Regional Medical Center in Moultrie, Georgia. Scarlet is a PharmD, and has worked in various medical centers as a staff pharmacist, as well as Director of Pharmacy at Capitol Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee.  They work with Medical Mission Teams, a non-profit medical mission group that they founded, and focus on short term mission trips, serving as mentors/preceptors to pharmacy students from Mercer University on trips to Kenya, Guatemala and Madagascar.  Scarlet also serves on the admission committee of Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy. They have served on too many short term trips to count (way over 50) to areas including Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Indonesia, Myanmar, Belize, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras. We are honored to have them join us with their passion for missions and education, and look forward to their contributions to our future endeavors.

LIMM is pleased to announce the awarding of two new grants this fall:

$5000 to the Lutheran Hospital Antsirabe, Madagascar Emergency Fund. The staff of the Lutheran Hospital of Madagascar works ​tirelessly to serve those in their care who often have no means to pay for medications, treatments or surgery. This grant will be used to meet the needs of those patients. ​

Children waiting for clinic in Madagascar

$5000 to Concordia Welfare & Education Foundation (CWEF) Health Education: Advocacy and Literacy (HEAL) Program, Cambodia.​​ In its third year, the HEAL program in the village of Spean Chrey has already provided sanitary latrines for families and conducted several health and wellness trainings for the HEAL advocates, who then share what they learn with the community. The teaching method used in the trainings engages the participants in a process of reflection and action, equipping and empowering them to find sustainable solutions to their problems.

Children in Spean Chrey village

We will be sharing stories from Madagascar and Cambodia in the weeks to come. It is your support that makes it possible to provide grants such as these. We thank God for each of you!

Do you want to make a lasting impact upon the lives of those whom you serve, helping them to take what they have learned  forward into their homes and communities, teaching others as you have taught them?  Don’t miss out on attending our Community Health Education/Evangelism (CHE) Train the Trainer Workshop, Oct. 20-24 at Camp Wartburg, Waterloo, Illinois. Join Stephanie Schulte, RN, medical missionary serving in West Africa, Rev. Gary Schulte, West Africa Area Director, Marguerite (Rita) Nickel, former medical missionary to Central Asia, and others for this first time event. Thanks to grants and donations,we are able to make this workshop available for a low price, but that price goes up September 2, so send in your registration today! For details, email limm@limm.org.