What a heart for ministry and for serving the Mexican people. God is using this ministry to open opportunities to demonstrate the love of Jesus in great ways, especially through the provision of clean water!
I've been working with MMM for the past 18 years. Throughout my time here I have seen a continual striving and effort to achieve the "impossible" through the love of Christ. So many Tarahumara lives have been transformed by the physical, spiritual, and emotional blessings given through MMM! So glad to be a part of this team.
I have had the privilege of being a volunteer nurse with Mexico Medical Missions over the past 4 years, and I can say that they are a quality non-profit organization that is providing much-needed medical care to the Tarahumara in the region. Donations that are made to this organization are utilized efficiently and in a no-frills way. The leaders of MMM are of the highest integrity and work faithfully in a rugged and remote area. I highly recommend Mexico Medical Missions.
Mi esposo y yo tuvimos bendicion y el privilegio de formar parte de este hermoso equipo , el impacto que tiene hacia la comunidad indigena raramuli no solo es intramuros hospitalarios, dandoles atencion medica de calidad, un mensaje de esperanza y dignificandoa las personas, sino que ha llegado a lugares remotos de dificil acceso. MMM es un ministerio medico integral, completo que ha salvado vidas, tocado familias, corazones y comunidades, transparente e integro en el manejo de los recursos, donacion que llega, misma que se ve reflejada en la calidad de la atencion medica.
I have visited Mexico Medical Missions twice as a volunteer/donor, and came away so inspired by the selfless work and incredible care that the team has for their patients- who are some of the most vulnerable in society. They are in a remote area of Mexico, but bring such expertise and quality, thanks to the leadership of Mike and Maci.
My wife and I have personally known the founders for 45 years and know them to be of highest integrity. We have supported this ministry for many years and vouch that it is very well run.
Mexico Medical Missions is a long time well established medical facility in a region of a formerly unreached people group in the Sierra Madre. The leadership of this organization is impeccable in their expertise and their genuiine caring for the people they serve,. With the skillful medical care and extraordinary love delivered by this great team, the number of lives saved is countless, It is a privilege to serve alongside these giants of faith in action in any capacity.
Nationally recognized in Mexico for efficiency, transparency and honesty - this is truly a great non-profit and one I personally support!
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Many years of experience with this organization have shown it to be extremely responsible with donations received and pretty remarkable at the high tech medical care they have been able to deliver in such an isolated situation!
Can you imagine building a full service hospital in the Sierral Madre mountain wilderness of northern Mexico, to serve the Tarahumara indigenous people group, who are so poor they can't afford to pay a dime for the life saving medical care received. Well that is exactly what missionairies Dr. Mike Berkeley and his wife Maci Berkeley did in the year 2000. The hospital serves ten thousand patients a year, free of charge. Services provided include everything from treating malnutrition for infants, to midwives for births, surgeries as complicated as hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery, dentistry, tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment and more. I have been a volunteer, donor and board member for many nonprofit organizations over my lifetime and this organization ranks #1 among them all.
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Mexico Medical Missions is a wonderful and courageous group of American and Mexican medical missionaries providing free acute care hospital and community health services to the Tarahumara Indian people group in the remote Sierra Madre mountains in Northwestern Mexico. They have achieved dramatic reduction in rates of infant mortality and Tuberculosis. They also provide free agricultural training to improve nutrition and water well drilling in these arid mountains where safe water for drinking and cooking is in short supply.
Mexico Medical Missions is headed by the Berkeley family. Dr. Mike Berkeley M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, has dedicated his life story to this organization. I have watched it grow from a primitive clinic to the sophisticated medical complex it has become over the years. It is strictly run on your blessed donations! MMM has my highest recommendation.
Alan B. Sadler, County Judge of Montgomery County Texas from '91 to '15.
Compassionate staff and volunteers shine the love of Christ in one of the harshest and most impoverished places in the undeveloped world.
I had the opportunity to spend a week constructing the learning center next to the hospital several years ago. The staff is the most focused and hardworking group of people that I have ever seen. That is not to say that they were not joyous. In everything they did, they showed the love of Jesus to all. The hospital also seemed to be the hub of much cooperative work among several mission organizations. We as a church have supported MMM for years and have also done so personally.
I first encountered Mexico Medical Missions in 2009 on a mission trip with my church. We visited the hospital in a very remote area located in the Sierra Madre mountains. This mission hospital was founded many years ago to serve the indeginous people group known as the Tarahumara. Dr. Mike and Maci Berkeley founded this nonprofit as a Christian mission full service hospital. They have helped tens of thousands of the Tara people with everything from malnutrition, Tuberculosis, emergency trauma care, general and orthopedic surgery, dentistry, and midwife child delvery. In addition they have a water well drilling program, community health outreach program, and agricultural program. They have been recognized many times by the Mexican government and major US philanthropic organizations such as Samaritan's Purse for their work. I joined Mexico Medical's board as a director in 2012 and have been very impressed with the governance program of this outstanding nonprofit. Their stewardship of the charitable funds they receive is exemplary.
Mexico Medical Missions serves Mexico’s poorest people in the remote Sierra Madres of Mexico – the Tarahumara indigenous group. MMM primarily serves through a 20+ bed, 2 surgical suite hospital in Samachique Mexico – where they see over 5000 patients per year. The hospital is made up of Mexican nationals, Tarahumara, and some US volunteers; all are committed to daily providing the highest quality of medical care to the Tarahumara, free of charge. In addition to excellent healthcare through the hospital, MMM sponsors agricultural, well drilling, and literacy programs. The Mission is committed to supporting and helping to maintain the uniqueness of the Tarahumara culture, while also serving their many needs. I have been impressed with the quality, humility, and relentless pursuit of service, that each member of MMM displays.
For over twenty years, Mexico Medical Missions has faithfully and sacrificially served the poorest of the poor in the remote and rugged mountains and canyons of the Sierra Tarahumara. The free medical care they provide has saved and transformed many lives. From complex surgeries to daily consults, the doctors and nurses work out of the limelight. And through various programs, they reach far into the mountains to do medical outreach and community development work. MMM is the best!
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My wife and I have worked with and alongside of Mexico Medical Missions for the past sixteen years. During those many years of association, we have experienced firsthand and also seen it be managed with solid Christian principles, integrity and fiscal responsibility. The mission freely and sacrificially serves the poorest of Mexico's poor without self-seeking notoriety and on a scale of one to ten we give it a ten!
My wife and I have been working with a variety of community development projects for the Tarahumara over the past 20 years, many in collaboration with Mexico Medical Missions. MMM has provided us with contacts, support, and community introductions that have been of invaluable assistance in our ability to productively work with Tarahumara leaders and families.
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Mexico Medical Mission’s hospital has played a very vital role as a catalyst for many other community development efforts and ministries throughout the Tarahumara region--this can't be over emphasized. The hospital has provided stability, community support, wide recognition and prestige that opens doors in otherwise closed villages for agricultural development projects, literacy classes, linguistic studies and translation projects, village medical outreaches, small business loans, and education projects. Access into most of the Tarahumara region is difficult to gain, due to the traditional wariness of the Tarahumara people, as well as to the instability and violence presented by a dominating cartel presence. The broad respect and admiration that the hospital has earned from all provides a platform from which many other programs and ministries have been able to make marked inroads into an otherwise closed and oppressed culture.
MMM has been serving the Tarahumara Indians for more than 20 years, providing free quality healthcare for a struggling population in some of the most extreme living conditions. Almost all of your donations will go directly to the people who need them and not to "administrative costs" or padding employee paychecks.
One of the most dedicated teams in Mexico! Their incredible team of professionals has brought first class Healthcare to one of the most remote regions in the world.
My wife and I have had a relationship with the Mexico Medical Staff staff and volunteers for over a year and a half, and we are honored to live and serve on the MMM campus. As medical professionals and Christians we are able to see and be apart of the life-changing, transformative work MMM is having among the Tarahumara and surrounding communities.
This, for sure, is a worthwhile organization! From their transparency in everything they do - whether in their finances (they make their financial reports available to anyone) or their work, to their very hands on approach (being on location), to their cost-effective endeavors and every penny saving philosophy, making up for great leadership & stewardship - they are definitely worth working and partnering with!
I arrived here in the Sierras just 3 months ago, working as a volunteer nurse. I truly can't say enough good about the many ways that Mexico Medical Missions serves the Tarahumara community. Our team provides excellent care at the hospital, performing advanced surgeries, treating malnourished infants and educating their families, and providing comprehensive and compassionate care in a region with scarce resources. We also have a team that goes out into the most isolated communities to share health education and gospel truth, an aviation team that provides for emergency medical and other transportation needs, and an agricultural program that equips local people to feed their families. As a nonprofit, MMM handles its funds with wisdom and integrity. God is doing incredible things through Mexico Medical Missions!
I've been privileged to work with Mexico Medical Missions as a nurse, helping provide quality health care to many in the rural Sierra Madre Mountains who would otherwise not receive it. Many have been successfully treated both medically and surgically at Hospital Misión Tarahumara, and this mission assists as well in aviation support, agricultural development, and other forms of community development. The impact that MMM has had in Samachique and the surrounding communities is one reason I will always be supportive of this organization.
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Our family has been privileged to have been a small part of Mexico Medical Missions back in 2001-2003, and now again more recently. The consistent and high-quality medical work they've been able to maintain for the past 20+ years is unparalleled. This mission is making a significant improvement in the quality of life for a remote group of people who have otherwise been neglected and have numerous health issues. Difficult orthopedic/surgical cases, eye/cataract surgeries, childhood malnutrition, and rampant tuberculosis, are just a few of the ailments that the hospital has been successfully treating. In addition, there's an aviation arm for transporting remote patients, linguistics work, agricultural training, and more. I highly recommend this organization.
Mexico Medical Missions does an incredible job working with professionals of diverse disciplines to provide the best care possible for the individuals they serve. Their work is done in a way that empowers individuals and demonstrates that they are valued members of society. Their longevity in caring for the people of Mexico is a testament to the sincerity of their work and the authenticity of their mission.
I had the privilege to work with this nonprofit as a midwife for almost 5 years and see first hand the impact they have on the community they serve. I enjoyed getting work with them and I feel that they manage their resources and donations wisely to benefit the people they are serving with little to no waste. Highly recommended!
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I volunteered with this nonprofit for almost five years as a midwife. I really enjoyed my time there! It was an amazing opportunity to get to serve alongside so many awesome staff members at this medical mission. I greatly recommend it to anyone who is interested in medical missions. The learning opportunities are endless and the work is rewarding.
My family and i have been a part of MMM since 2009.
My father uses agricultural projects to help prevent malnutrition.
Today I interpreted for a patient in consultation with a visiting gynecologist. Because of the good relations with our family, she felt comfortable enough to be able to tell what she needed.
One of my favorite things about MMM is the wonderful caring people that come at different times to help with projects. I remember in particular, a group that came down a put a new roof on our house.
My friend Marcial, still has his foot thanks to the hospital. At fifteen he got a splinter in his left foot. It appeared to heal, and then began to swell. He was so afraid of losing his foot that he only asked for help when he could no longer walk on it. When my dad finally convinced him that the doctors would not cut off his foot, he agreed to go to the hospital.
At the hospital he was given immediate care, a minor surgery and a short hospital stay. And all by doctors that care about his spiritual and physical health.
My mother then spent three weeks changing bandages at home, in order that he would not stay longer at the hospital.
Marcial is now seventeen and can work hard all day, thanks to the hospital he continues to help provide for his extended family.
I joined Mexico Medical Missions in 2009 to work on combating childhood malnutrition among the Tarahumara people. The support of Mexico Medical Missions has made it possible for me to teach Tarahumara farmers how to grow more food and feed their families better. Gregorio Lopez recently told me. “I used to harvest 17 bags of corn each year. Last year I planted corn the way you do and I harvested 26 bags. This spring I did the same thing and it looks like my harvest will be really good again this year.”
This year Gregorio also planted potatoes the way I taught him to and is expecting a good harvest. His family should have enough potatoes to eat for the next 10 months and a surplus to sell! Gregorio is passing the blessing on to others, by frequently feeding his nieces and nephews who otherwise would often have nothing to eat.
Andrew Bornman
bornman@bnin.net
We have served the past 15 years at a neighboring Tarahumara ministry My wife has a fragile medical condition. Mexico Medical Ministries has served my wife on several occasions; providing emergency air transportation and another time rendering excellent surgery for a severe broken leg. They treated me for a kidney stone attack. We use volunteer construction teams and several have received emergency treatment. Needless to say, we could not serve in this remote and difficult area were MMM not available. We know hundreds of Tarahumara who have been treated at their facility with life saving medical treatment.
I worked there for a couple months over the summer as a nurse. I was incredibly impressed at the incredible facilities it had for being a rural charity hospital. The quality of care was very good and far surpassed what was available nearby. I would absolutely love to do more volunteer work there. The amount of good this hospital does is immeasurable.
The heart and soul of Mexico Medical Missions is saving lives. Not only the physical - in terms of hospital care, surgery, healing, child delivery, nutrition and health education but also the Spiritual. MMM is a Christ centered non-demonational outreach that provides not only for the body but the soul. In addition to suburb advanced emergency hospital care, MMM provides ground and air ambulance service into the remotest parts of Copper Canyon to serve Mexico's indigenous peoples, the Tarahumara Indians. I have witnessed broken bodies healed, sight restored to the blind and lives saved because of the tireless dedication of the surgeons, flight and ambulance crews and support staff of Hospital Tarahumara.
Dan Long
Sierra Vista, AZ