What We Do
Zambia Medical Mission brings medical and spiritual help to residents in remote rural areas where healthcare access is limited or nonexistent. Each July American medical personnel and support staff join with Zambian medical personnel and support staff to conduct clinics at various villages in the Zambian bush. These clinics offer medical, dental, and wound care, as well as optometry, physical therapy, and lab services. A mobile pharmacy serves the needs of those who come, and spiritual counseling and Bible studies address the spiritual needs of patients. Children learn in the children’s program with singing and Bible stories while their parents wait for medical care.
Where We Go
The Zambia Medical Mission team travels out from Namwianga Mission to rural villages in Zambia’s Southern Province and sets up clinics that operate for three days at a time. Communities selected as clinic sites are in remote areas that do not have local medical, dental, and optometric care available. The ZMM team also considers conducting clinics in areas where the church needs encouragement or even in a new area that has not been reached with the gospel.
Zambia Medical Mission 2026
The Americans who serve on the 2026 medical mission will leave the USA in early July and spend 14 days with the medical mission team. Some of those days will be spent in travel, preparation, packing supplies, and fellowshipping with Zambian and American team members.
The application forms for 2026 will be available here on the website by September 15. The 2025 forms are provided below so those interested can see what information and documents will be required.
Contact Co-Director Ellie Hamby by email at ellie@zambiamission.org for more information about the 2026 medical mission.
Zambia Medical Mission - July 2025
The Zambia Medical Mission team conducted clinics in rural Zambia from July 11 - July 19.
God's grace and blessings on this ministry had amazing results:.
- Patients treated - 7550
- Baptisms - 232
- Dental patients - 864
- Optical - 1509
- Prescriptions filled - More than 24,000
- Team members - 64 Americans, 150 Zambians
History
The Zambia Medical Mission started in 1994. The late Dr. Kelly Hamby and his wife, Eleanor, and the late Dr. John Estes, Jr. and his wife, June, conducted the first medical mission under trees in the Zambian bush. Drs. Richard and Angie Prather were also part of this early effort.
