Monday, April 28, 2025
The student-doctors at Liberty University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) are actively training to be high-caliber medical professionals, but first and foremost they are being trained to be lights and vessels for Christ in the medical field. During the medical school’s Spring Break, March 24-29, a team of 11 student-doctors and three faculty traveled to El Salvador to care for close to 150 patients at area health clinics.
The free clinics were held in collaboration with Harvesting in Spanish and its ministry for orphaned or abandoned children, the Shalom Children’s Home. LUCOM’s group used the organization’s four-story clinic in the town of Santiago Texacuangos as its main location for the clinics. For two days, they also used a mobile bus clinic to visit two villages — Cuyultitan and Santo Tomás — and a Youth with a Mission compound in the region. At night, the team spent time with the children at Shalom and slept in the organization’s separate apartments set aside for visiting workers.
“We did this trip because it gives the students hands-on experience in a supervised environment,” said LUCOM professor and trip leader Dr. Russell Melton. “There’s interaction between students, there’s certainly a cultural experience, and it’s a mission opportunity. We have students who are interested in missions, and we want to give them the opportunity to explore that and let God use that in their lives and futures.”
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