The need
War and poverty affect the whole person: physical health, emotional strength, family life, faith, and the places where a community gathers.
Community Development
Medical.
Basic medical care, health education, and mobile clinics in places with little or no medical services.
Watch the work
Where medicine meets miracles.
Watch Favor’s medical teams combine practical care, prayer, and community service.
Holistic transformation by the Word
What this ministry carries into the field.
There is a tremendous need for reliable and applicable community health information in Uganda and South Sudan. Access to formal education is severely limited and illiteracy rates are extremely high. Therefore, what most Westerners would consider common knowledge about disease prevention, germ theory, and basic hygiene principles is widely unknown in the places we serve.
How it works - 01
The field-led response
In both Uganda and South Sudan, we have Favor clinics that provide basic medical care to our staff and their families, and to our former street youth who are in residence. In Uganda, where 50% or more of the population lives in extreme poverty, our clinic just opened to the public providing low-cost medical assistance to the community.
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The work continues
Beyond Gulu, Uganda and Juba, South Sudan, community health education is a vital and integral part of the Rural Education and Empowerment Program (REEP). During the two-month Portable Bible Schools, daily classes are taught on recognizing certain disease symptoms, preventing illnesses, and treating common disorders. Common knowledge like boiling water, washing hands and general cleanliness is taught as disease prevention.
The ministry in context
A need, a field-led response, and a path forward.
See how Medical fits Favor’s wider approach to transformation.
Favor’s approach
Field teams pair practical care with prayer, discipleship, trained local leadership, and a healthy church rooted in the community.
What comes next
Immediate care opens a longer path toward reconciliation, stable congregations, local service, and community-led restoration.
On the ground
What the work looks like in practice.
Mobile medical clinics are a practical extension of Favor Clinics where we go to rural areas where there is little or no medical services. Of course each patient is prayed for, given the Gospel message, and treated for their diseases. Mobile medical clinics often open the way for further penetration of the Gospel into remote areas.
In the field
Medical, seen up close.
More than one frame is needed to understand the people, places, and daily work behind this ministry.
"He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and He will pay back what he has given.... Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be heard." Proverbs 19:17 & 21:13, NKJV
Salvation · July 13, 2023
Medical Center Salvations
God is at work bringing salvation to people through our medical centers.
Akullu Hellen came to Favor Medical Center in Gulu, Uganda last week to help her patient Ajok Alice. Hellen only knew about God through a Catholic lens she had been given and hadn't come to know Jesus. As she sought physical help for Alice, we were able to help Hellen find salvation for her own soul! Hellen gave her life to Jesus Christ and we also prayed for her healing for Alice.
Questions
Understanding Medical.
What to know before you explore, pray, or give.
Who carries Medical on the ground?
Favor’s field programs are led and delivered by indigenous staff, teachers, pastors, counselors, and ministry leaders who live in the nations and communities they serve.
How does Medical connect to the rest of Favor’s work?
It belongs to the Community Development pillar, but it does not stand alone. Favor’s programs are designed to reinforce prayer, discipleship, local leadership, and the long-term health of a community.
Are the details identical in every location?
No. Language, facilities, local leadership, and immediate needs vary by nation and community. This page describes Favor’s published model; current field details should be confirmed with the Favor team.
How can I support this work?
Favor Partners provide dependable, unrestricted support that field leadership can direct where it is most needed. You can also contact the team to ask whether a current designated project is available.
Community Development
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Each program is one part of a connected, field-led movement.
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Favor Partners give field leaders the flexibility to keep this work moving month after month.