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Sister Jane Fell Sister Jane Fell is one of 650 Medical Mission Sisters in 19 nations trying to be present to others in the spirit of Jesus the Healer. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sister Jane is the 5th of 7 children. "A strong influence for me was the fact of living my childhood on a farm," she explains. "This gave me an attraction for and comfort with rural living." She earned her B.S. in Nursing from Duchesne College of the Sacred Heart in Omaha, Nebraska, where she felt the call to religious life. She joined Medical Mission Sisters at age 22. Sister Jane's first overseas assignment was to Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where she became Director of Nursing Services and Personnel. In 1970, she moved to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where she worked for 4 years as Nursing Coordinator of the Indiana Loma Linda University Medical Team, and helped to open a nursing school. "The team was very international…we Sisters shared fully with those of other faiths," she recalls. The Southern U.S. became the next area of mission for Sister Jane. She worked in a primary health and community development program in North Carolina, then as a nurse midwife-family nurse practitioner in South Carolina. In 1982, she went to Mt. Hagen, Papua, New Guinea, where she served in the School of Nursing as a midwifery and child health teacher, and later as Acting Principal. From 1985 to 1991, Sister Jane was involved in primary health care work in Abease, Ghana. After a time of renewal, and caring for our elderly Sisters in the U.S., she moved to Kasanga, Uganda, as Coordinator of our Primary Health Care Project there. "With its focus on teaching and motivating community people to work together to identify and solve their own problems, community-based health care has led to the development of people in many ways besides that of health," she explains. Sister Jane now administers our Primary Health Care Program in Rubanda, Uganda, which covers 46 villages in the mountainous southwestern part of the country. "I have experienced fulfillment from every experience that I've had," she shares. "The Lord seems to know where to send me, and what I need to be there. I choose to trust that."
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