Marion Medical Mission
Marion Medical Mission is an ecumenical, Christian, front-line, hands-on, volunteer, non-profit organization that responds to Christ’s call to serve by working hand in hand with God’s people in Africa. We show the love of Christ through projects that directly impact the African people, stressing self-help and sustainability.
Marion Medical Mission (MMM) was incorporated as a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization in 1990. Tom and Jocelyn Logan began raising funds and building an infrastructure in partnership with the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia in Northern Malawi. Each year MMM’s goals increased. Each year they reached their goal and served more people with protected water. In 1995, local subsistence farmers trained by MMM began manufacturing the Mark V pumps in Malawi. In 2003, the program expanded into Zambia with the CCAP Synod of Zambia. That same year, MMM partnered with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT) and began building wells. A fourth program was established in Central Malawi with the CCAP Synod of Nkhoma in 2005.
MMM has operated over 30 years in obedience to God’s call to “love your neighbor as yourself.” We are blessed over and over again as we step out in faith to do the impossible. God meets us and helps us accomplish things that have never been done before.
Since 1990, Marion Medical Mission has built over 35,000 wells in Jesus' name. Over 4 million people now have a sustainable source of safe drinking water.
As we grow and move forward, we promise to:
- Continue to step out in faith, going beyond what we can do for ourselves.
- Maintain our donation system where 100% goes where it’s designated and 100% of all undesignated funds go to the field in Africa.
- Do everything we can with what we have where we have it.
- Use everything that God has given us while leaving room for God to work.
- Remember that we are doing our work WITH God’s people, not FOR them.
- Reach across the ocean, connecting people on both sides and being a “light that shines” leading them in the right direction.
- Achieve the impossible with God’s blessing and provision.
To learn more about mission, see The PCUSA Mission Yearbook.
Matthew 25:34-40
Then the king will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?' And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,a you did it to me.
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The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.
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