Colleagues in Care (CIC) serves those who serve.
For more than two decades, CIC has worked alongside healthcare professionals, mission organizations, faith communities, and local leaders to improve health in resource-limited settings. That experience has taught us an important lesson: some of the greatest opportunities in medical missions begin with the care delivered while a team is present—but depend upon what remains after the team goes home.
Today, CIC is building on that experience to help medical mission partners extend short-term care into sustainable prevention and healthier communities.
Our Cumulus Lift Series (CLS) brings together trusted, practical medical knowledge for those serving where resources may be limited. With MAXI, CIC is exploring AI-enabled access to that knowledge so mission teams and their local partners can more readily find, understand, teach, and apply appropriate health information before, during, and after a mission.
Hypertension and related chronic noncommunicable diseases are an important starting point. A medical team may identify high blood pressure during a mission, but preventing stroke, heart failure, kidney disease, and maternal complications requires attention long after that team leaves.
CIC therefore seeks partnerships that connect medical mission teams, local healthcare providers, churches, and community leaders. Together, we can equip trusted local partners to continue prevention education, accurate blood-pressure screening, recognition of warning signs, referral, and follow-up—while qualified healthcare providers retain responsibility for diagnosis and treatment.
We believe the local church can be an especially powerful partner in this work: present before the mission arrives, trusted while it is there, and still serving the community after it leaves.
At GMHC 2026, CIC is looking for medical mission organizations, healthcare leaders, faith-based networks, and field partners interested in exploring a simple question:
What should a medical mission leave behind?
Our hope is to help mission teams leave more than memories of excellent care—to leave knowledge, trained local partners, stronger connections to care, and a sustainable legacy of prevention.
If that question resonates with your mission, we would love to connect.
