A 501(c)(3) charitable federation
Healing that reaches the
communities medicine has passed over.
Changing lives in many different ways
Gifts become operating rooms, trained surgeons, and pastoral care — across six organizations with one mission.
The calling
Every nation whose healthcare system has been devastated is the mission field.
Healing Vessels International began as a call to ministry, and the field it was given is the whole of it — wherever surgery is unreachable, wherever a hospital was never built, wherever the people who would do the work were never trained. The vessels below are how that call is being answered, one nation at a time.
Why we exist
Medicine is unevenly distributed. Money, training, and faith rarely travel together to fix that.
Healing Vessels International was built to close that gap deliberately. It is the fiscal sponsor and charitable hub for a small group of physician-led initiatives — a rehabilitation practice in Maryland, a surgical university without a campus, a hospital-building company in West Africa, a research alliance with Johns Hopkins, a software system that runs all of it, and a church that treats faith as part of healing rather than an afterthought.
None of the six exists to compete with the others. Each was founded because the one before it ran into a wall only the next one could remove — a clinic that generated evidence but no surgeons to use it abroad, surgeons with no hospitals built to modern standard, hospitals with no shared system to track grants and safety data, and a mission, throughout, that its founders never separated from their faith.
- Status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization
- Model
- Clinical margin funds charitable programs
- Reach
- Maryland · Nigeria · Liberia · The Gambia
- Federation size
- 6 organizations, 1 shared mission
How it fits together
One federation, six vessels
Hover or focus any organization below. The lines that light up are real working relationships — not decoration — and the panel explains exactly what each one does for the others.
Hover a vessel to see how it connects.
The six vessels
What each one actually does
Not projections — the record so far
What the federation has already done
Standing alongside us
Academic and clinical partners
Who carries it
Leadership
Give
Donate to Healing Vessels International
Healing Vessels International, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit — EIN 45-2454543. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and every gift is acknowledged in writing for your records. Tell us which vessel moves you and your gift is stewarded there: surgical training in Liberia and The Gambia, a hospital ward in Nigeria, perioperative research with Johns Hopkins, or chaplaincy through Omnipresent Church.
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A gift here becomes an operating room there.
Partner hospitals, faculty who want to teach, foundations looking for a surgical program that can account for every dollar — the door is the same one. Write to us and say what you want to build.