Dr. Steve and Jodi Swanson are FLC’s global medical missionaries. They serve the poorest of poor in Arusha, Tanzania. Their mission focuses on infants and children. As a lead nurse, Jodi runs a malnutrition center at the Selian Hospital in Arusha. Steve works at the Arusha Lutheran Medical Center and Selian Hospital providing neo-natal care for premature babies. For only $100 a day, they can provide nutrition, medicines and emergency surgeries that would not be possible without our appeal gifts. the ambulance (pictured below) donated by FLC in 2015 is used to transport the poor to these medical facilities.

FLC has had a long history of sponsoring missionaries.

Neonatal Intensive Care unit

Newborn Intensive Care is provided for new-born children who need respiratory or other assistance immediately after birth and through the first month of life. The NICU provides a full range of technological support including overhead warmers, incubators, and phototherapy lights for treating jaundice, Bubble CPAP - for respiratory care, umbilical catheters, and cardiorespiratory monitors. 

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AMBULANCE

In 2015, FLC learned that an ambulance was needed in Tanzania for the Arusha Lutheran Medical Center. The congregation went to work and Operation Ambulance was put in action and provided enough funds to purchase the vehicle to be converted into the ambulance above. Pictured in photo is retired Dr. Mark Jacobson.

Check out the Arusha Lutheran Medical Center website.