ACO volunteers and local children walking together along a warm evening road in Senegal
Medical missions · whole-person care

Medicine opens the door.
The Gospel changes lives.

Rooted in Christ and marked by medical missions, ACO serves alongside local churches and communities through the Gospel, practical care, and long-term development—meeting urgent needs today while raising up local leaders and future missionaries for tomorrow. Along the way, love builds trust. At the same time, each mission experience invites volunteers, youth, families, churches, and partners to grow in compassion, reflect on purpose, and serve alongside others.

Serving Africa. Raising up workers.
A Christ-Centered Mission

Serving Africa. Raising up workers.

ACO carries the Gospel through medical missions and whole-person care to communities across Africa—and raises up local leaders and future missionaries to carry the work forward. The same mission that heals bodies and shares Christ also forms the hearts of those who serve.

Across Africa

Serving Africa

ACO responds to real needs today while working alongside local churches and community leaders to build capacity for tomorrow.

Annual Mission Outreach Integrated whole-person care—welcome, medical care, children’s ministry, local church partnership, and Gospel witness shared in word and deed, offered with prayer and respect.
Long-Term Community Development

Ongoing investment in healthcare, education, skills, and locally sustainable initiatives.

Dr. Idrissa Faye HospitalFrom clinic-based care to long-term healthcare access and hospital development. Education & Vocational TrainingBasic education, student support, technical training, vocational skills, and opportunity. Children & Youth DiscipleshipYear-round discipleship — VBS, football, music — in the communities we serve.
Workers for the Harvest

Raising Up Workers

Through service, prayer, relationships, reflection, and shared experience, ACO helps raise up the next generation of leaders, workers, and future missionaries—inviting participants, and local believers alongside them, to grow in compassion, humility, responsibility, servant leadership, and a clearer sense of God’s calling.

ACO YouthMission experiences, service projects, reflection, and leadership opportunities that raise up young volunteers into the next generation of leaders and future missionaries. Youth Medical TrainingStudents from age 10 holding real roles beside physicians in a working mission clinic — and finding out whether medicine is their calling. Missionary Training & SendingTraining local workers in the Word and a trade, equipping local leaders, and supporting and sending long-term missionaries.
An Open Invitation

Who Can Take Part

Wherever you're coming from, there's a place to serve. Mission with ACO welcomes people at different points in their journey.

For Christian volunteers

Mission becomes a place of discipleship — deepening faith, humility, compassion, servant leadership, and responsiveness to God's calling.

For those exploring faith

A space for honest questions, relationships, reflection, and meaningful encounters with the Christian faith.

For those drawn to the work

Come to serve with your skills and compassion. The Gospel is central to who we are — shared with respect and never forced — and you're welcome to take part and see it lived out.

Serve with us.

ACO welcomes medical professionals, adult volunteers, youth and college volunteers, churches, donors, and partners to take part in this work.

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