"The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty 'Yes!' to your adventure." — Joseph CampbellOur Adventure Becomes a Spiritual Path of Service
The work of Nurses With a Mission began when several nurses volunteered to join a medical mission team providing cleft lip and palate surgery to children high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. In this area of the world, corrective surgery was not available to everyone and some children had grown to adolescence - even adulthood with the birth defect that made them outcasts in their community. As our team changed the lives of children, the shared experience changed each of us in a deeply personal way. That shared experience of the medical mission was transformational.
On our return home, we wanted to keep doing something to help. We began collecting medical supplies and speaking to groups about our experiences on that mission. People wanted to help us, and the idea of creating a nonprofit organization was born.
We didn't know how to do that; the task seemed immense and overwhelming... and together... we began to move forward in FAITH, as humanitarians, listening to that ceaseless calling to keep moving on the path of service to accomplish this dream. We became Nurses with a Mission.
The video at left was shown at the Gulfcoast AORN Hearts of Gold Gala. The "Honoring Perioperative Pioneers" Award for NURSE HUMANITARIAN was given to Mauri Barnes and Mark Terovich, cofounders of Nurses with a Mission.
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