Mission of Mercy provides free medication, care

Members of First UMC, Bishop, were blessed to play host to an open house for the Mission of Mercy July 22.
Special guests—including Dr. Coleen Madigan, Texas medical director; Patty Clark, Texas executive director; and their staff—attended worship, conducted tours of the mobile medical clinic and registered volunteers.
Mission of Mercy is a nonprofit organization providing free medical care and free prescription medications to the uninsured
and people living in poverty in the Coastal Bend area.
Members of the church agreed to be a host site for the mobile medical clinic. It is to park at the church and use the fellowship hall as a waiting area every third Wednesday, beginning Sept. 19.
“Our members worked very hard to prepare for this open house by inviting and informing area church and community leaders weeks in advance, serving a meal for (more than) 100 people, and just being very helpful and welcoming to everyone who came to
tour the clinic,” said Pastor Barbara Aziz. “It’s been wonderful to be involved in this much-needed community project.”
The church’s Mission Committee chair, Maudie Willbern, said, “We are grateful for the unexpected blessing to help the people in the Bishop area with this opportunity. Our church members are eager to help in any way that they can.”
As a result of the open house, 19 people from the community and area churches signed up to volunteer for the mission. The volunteer training for all the sites is to be Aug. 25 at First UMC, Corpus Christi.
The mobile clinic will also serve Robstown at El Redentor UMC, Orange Grove at St. John of the Cross Roman Catholic Church and two clinic sites in Corpus Christi at First UMC, Corpus Christi, and St. Paul the
Apostle Roman Catholic Church.
For more information, for volunteer opportunities and for the Nueces County schedule, see www. amissionofmercy.org.