Mission, Vision, and Values

Mission Statement

Partners in Compassionate Care (PCC) exists for the purpose of providing Christ-centered hope and healing to the people of South Sudan.

Vision Statement

To enable the South Sudanese to own and operate the PCC Health Care System on a sustainable basis, with appropriate governance and support.

Core Values

  • Christ-Centered—We will care about their physical and spiritual needs.

  • Community-Driven—We will focus on the needs that matter to them, not just to us.

  • Sustainability-Focused—We will create self-sufficiency, not dependency, and do so responsibly.

  • Enabling—We will come alongside and enhance their skills and capabilities.

Guiding Principles

We will not operate alone. Whenever possible, we will seek out and work with partners who can help us achieve our objectives and who:

  • Support our mission and values, and will not work against us.

  • Demonstrate a spirit of partnership, evidenced by mutual respect and unity of purpose.

  • Work to promote reconciliation and community among the South Sudanese.

Our Story

In 2004, a group of nine people, led by Dave Bowman, visited Werkok in South Sudan on the invitation of South Sudanese church leaders to assess medical care in Southern Sudan. Dave Bowman and fellow travelers Dave and Sandy Bixel had served as parents to Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan who came to Grand Rapids. What they saw in South Sudan were unbelievably poor living conditions and nearly nonexistent health care, but they also saw amazingly vibrant Christian churches and returned both overwhelmed with sadness and filled with joy.

As a response to their experience, the group formed Partners in Compassionate Care as a spiritual vehicle to bring hope and healing through medical services to the people of South Sudan.

They model their actions on the teachings of Christ, and their mission is to provide hope and healing for the people of South Sudan by partnering with like-minded organizations and individuals.

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Partners in Compassionate Care was founded to bring hope and healing to underserved areas in South Sudan where medical and spiritual care are most needed and often not readily available. Our presence began with the opening of Memorial Christian Hospital in the village of Werkok in 2009. The hospital complex was built on 40 acres of land donated by people in the local village. Over the next few years, the hospital services grew to better serve the rural population with the opening of Satellite Clinics in the villages of Athooc, Bor, and Malek.

As a result of continued tribal unrest and recent flooding in the Werkok area, Memorial Christian Hospital is currently closed. The Werkok population has migrated south toward Bor - the capital of the Jonglei State since 2013. The Bor Clinic is now our busiest facility serving over 100 patients daily. Not only is primary healthcare accessible at the Bor Clinic - the clinic also provides immunizations, laboratory tests, maternal health services, outpatient consultations, eye care, ultrasound and x-ray imaging, and cataract surgeries. Plus, there is an onsite pharmacy and morning devotion is shared with patients.

Since the founding of PCC, over 150,000 South Sudanese have been treated and over 5,000 surgeries have been performed. In order to preserve our impact for generations to come, the long-term goal is to make the PCC Health Care System a self-sustained, local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that provides healthcare services to the rural population in South Sudan. A process modeled after how Dr. Daniel Fountain brought health services to thousands of people in rural areas of the Congo.