Barefoot Doctors

Evangelism through medicine

FLC holds a medical training school for village leaders from Thailand and the most remote parts of Myanmar where there are no facilities. In three consecutive years, students receive six weeks of training before graduating.

Physicians, dentists and other health care professionals train village leaders how to perform diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, and to provide dental care. Trained leaders are then sent back to their villages with medicines and supplies provided through FLC. Over 180 trained Barefoot Doctors have been credited with saving thousands of lives and opening doors for evangelism in otherwise closed regions.

Our Barefoot Doctor students are from nine different ethnic peoples in Myanmar (Naga, Ngochang, Rawang, Lahu, Akha, Mru, Kachin, Lisu, and Chin) and from five different states and many different occupations (Bible translators, pastors, youth ministers, evangelists, Sunday School teachers, music composers, government officials, educators, office workers, and farmers).

Pray for their medical and spiritual ministries this year to the desperately sick and disheartened people of Myanmar and remote Thailand!