2026 LIA South Sudan Medical Trip

Trip dates: May 12-22

Location: Juba, South Sudan

Trip leaders: Cheryl Roberts & Duane Knight

Trip Details:

INTENTION: This trip is focused on developing relationships of encouragement, support, curiosity, and fun working alongside LIA’s network of medical staff and community leaders, in addition to members of a short-term team. Participants will gain an understanding of LIA’s unique empowerment model while serving LIA’s medical outreach partner in basic medical screening and specialty case identification. The team will have a multi-faceted experience, discovering various cultural and social aspects of South Sudan and how they impact the outreach of the local church, while learning more about LIA’s pioneering work in some of the most unreached and overlooked places in the world. The goal of this trip is to increase awareness about how church partnerships support LIA, becoming advocates and friends, and for participants to discover how God would like to use them around the world while they bring their medical expertise to a very intense setting.

WHO: This will be an invite-only team of individuals with a strong level of personal and spiritual maturity, international travel experience in extreme environments, and a demonstrated openness to considering the implications and differences in cross-cultural medicine. Those with an active certification (must be able to provide a copy of valid certification/license) in general/family practice, trauma/emergency/field medicine, maternal/female health, pediatrics, and eye specialists are encouraged to apply. In addition to medical expertise, participants should come with a curiosity to learn about who LIA is and how they partner with local communities, feel strongly about encouraging the role local community leaders play, have a willingness to be led by field staff, a heart to teach but also to learn, have a passion to discover what third-world medicine might have to teach Western medicine, and a strong desire to exemplify Jesus in all they do.

 Cost: $3,700

Training schedule:

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