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Medical Mission Sister Dr. Rita Schiffer received the prestigious Federal Cross of Merit from the German Embassy for her and her team’s commitment to their patients at the Attat Hospital in Ethiopia.  2019 marks 50 years since MMS opened Attat Hospital which has become a national and international model for providing groundbreaking care of women in the community.

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German Ambassador to Ethiopia Brita Wagner, Sr. Dr. Rita Schiffer, MMS and Sr. Inge Jansen, MMS, who received the Cross of Merit in 2012. 

Anke with woman consultation (2) roselyn PS Kerala Flood Phil from Mo lorraine and immigrants 2 Sr. Mai giving soup for childrens
Sister Dr. Anke Boekenfoerde meets with people suffering from mental illness in Indonesia, gathering data she then shares with the Health Ministry, Ministry of Social Welfare, WHO and various universities.
The local women in Rubanda, Uganda, taught by Sr. Roselyn Ninsiima (in the black jacket), are weaving baskets they will sell in the MMS Health Clinic to support their families.
In Kerala, South India Medical Mission Sisters, including Sr Dolores Kannampuzha (on the right), provided shelter, food and supplies to displaced people after the deadly monsoon in August 2018.
Children in Ang’iya, Kenya enjoy creative expression with North American Associate Phil Pryjma, whose foundation Sawa Sawa supports the local school and MMS medical clinic.
Sr. Lorraine Ryan (center) stands with students at the program she started, Women’s Circle in Boynton Beach, FLA, where almost 300 immigrant and underprivileged women receive free classes and career training each year.
The soup kitchen in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, organized and run by Medical Mission Sisters feeds over 200 hungry residents in the barrio every day.

Your support in 2018 provided:

  • A water purification system so our Sisters, and those suffering TODAY in Venezuela, no longer have to purchase their only water in huge vessels off the back of trucks

 

  • A full year of tuition for youth in the lowest caste in India (disparagingly called rat-eaters), including nutritious food, transportation, books, and other necessities

 

  • New maternity wing in Rubanda, Uganda, giving new mothers and their babies their own space

 

  • Assistance with serving daily meals to over 350 of those without homes in North Philadelphia

 

  • Sewing machines, business workshops, cloth, yarn, and other supplies to help local women in Venezuela, India and Africa establish income-producing businesses

 

  • Aide to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

 

….. And much more!  Thank you for being our partner in mission as we continue to be a healing presence all over the world. 

Newly-vowed Medical Mission Sisters from around the world and local Associates gather in Germany for a celebration of unity and purpose.

 

Our Mission

Medical Mission Sisters are women full of passion…for wholeness, for justice, for life. Like our Foundress, Anna Dengel, M.D., “it eats us up” when individuals and communities are denied the resources and opportunities they need to live as human beings. It moves us to the core of our being when and where people are made poor, are oppressed or are overwhelmed with a sense of powerlessness.

In our broken, wounded world, Medical Mission Sisters are called to live as a healing presence. We try to bring about a world where all live in harmony and where no one is in want. We try to live as Jesus lived, with care and compassion for all.

A Community of dedicated women with over 500 Canonical members and 100 Associates, we share life and our own unique expertise with women, children and men on five continents today. We enter into their lives as partners, as peers, as friends. We work together with them to build one world, and be one world, where the gifts of all people, all cultures, all creation are affirmed and celebrated.

Healing Presence

Sister Dorothy Bilung discovered her “healing hands” early in life, when she generously shared her healing touch with loved ones, rubbing oils into her mother’s cracked feet and offering massages. In 1989, her passion for healing led her to join the Medical Mission Sisters (MMS) in North India’s Mandar community, where she was trained in nursing at Holy Family Hospital (HFH). She later studied midwifery at HFH in Kurji, a village in the Northeast Indian city of Patna, Bihar. She continued to work in Kurji until 1998, when she began working in a dispensary in the Kasiyadih Village in nearby Jharkhand. She recalls that “I felt within me and among us, God’s presence and guiding hand.”

Soon after accompanying village doctors to collect herbal plants that were used to treat those suffering from illnesses including malaria, diarrhea and viral fever, she went to Pune, Maharashtra. There she attended a holistic health program and worked in an acupuncture clinic. She later returned to HFH in Mandar, where she worked in the hospital’s herbal, acupressure and massage department. Today, she serves as assistant coordinator in Mandar’s Ashadeep community, and her work includes caring for MMS who are ill.

She shares, “As MMS we have been gifted to integrate many systems of medicine. There is much healing power in the universe and in nature and in ourselves which we must tap. God heals using our hands.”

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Medical Mission Sisters Websites
Medical Mission Sisters have created a number of
websites to share information about our Community,
its mission and its vision with a wide variety of people.
www.medicalmissionsisters.org presents our worldwide mission
of healing
www.medicalmissionsisters.org.uk is the new Society
website created by our Generalate in London
www.missionsaerztliche-schwestern.org is our German website
www.medischemissiezusters.nl is our Dutch website
www.medicalmissionsisters-uk.org  presents our life
and work  in the United Kingdom
www.mmssouthindia.org highlights our mission in South India
www.ayushyamms.org shares the work of our Center for
Healing and Integration in India
www.mmsheal.wordpress.com features our ecological ministry at
HEAL in the Philippines
www.mms-un.org tells of our involvements at the
United Nations

 

Medical Mission Sisters are an organization of Roman Catholic Sisters and designated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charitable organization by the IRS