Brandon Cole
March 2026
Dear Friends,
Warm greetings from SE Asia! This year marks one and a half years being on the ground here in our long-term location after a year of formal language school as we strive to reach the “Miga” (code name for our island’s largest unreached people group).
Our medical ministry is primarily a grass roots model – working with local health workers and nurses, and fellow team workers – to provide medical care to our community contacts who, for a variety of reasons (financial, cultural, and lack of availability), otherwise wouldn’t have received it. We typically take all health equipment, materials, and available medicines into these unreached communities. We provide health services at no costs to these patients. We are starting to see whole family units (which are large here!) come for medical care and continuity over time.
We also use POCUS (point of care ultrasound) for accurate and time-efficient medical diagnoses which include gallbladder, liver, kidney, aorta, cardiac, bladder, cardiac, gynecology, and obstetrics pathology and monitoring. We are in the process of implementing an ultrasound curriculum to be implemented at our local medical school and in partnership with local primary care doctors to use this invaluable tool in their own communities.
As a means of providing the necessary funds for our medical work, we are grateful to be partnering with Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation (www.SWMCF.org), a Christian medical missions foundation based in southwest Michigan. They have generously offered a matching gift of up to $5,000 to our Community Medicine Project. Would you prayerfully consider helping us meet our financial goals?
These funds would go directly to our clinic work providing free medications, assistance in lab studies, imaging studies, aid in hospital bills for patients, and continued medical equipment needs (glucose monitoring, urinalyses, point of care Hemoglobin/Cholesterol/Uric Acid, wound care, EKGs). We also plan on purchasing an arterial Doppler which can be used to assess for blood flow blockages in the legs – a condition called Peripheral Vascular Disease. This is especially important here with the high incidence of Diabetes and Hypertension in our local communities.
Thank you so much for your consideration in partnering with us. We pray that God uses our medical work as a bridge to have spiritual conversations about the Great Physician to share the Gospel message of Isa al-Masih (Jesus the Messiah) to those who haven’t heard.
To donate ONLINE (via Credit/Debit card or PayPal):
Click here: www.SWMCF.org, Project Giving, and you will find the matching gift campaign for
“Cole SE Asia Community Medicine Project”
OR
Make check or money order payable to: “Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation.”
In the memo line of the check please write: “Cole SE Asia Community Medicine Project,” and send to:
Southwestern Medical Clinic Foundation
1234 Napier Avenue
Mailbox 81
St. Joseph, MI 49085
Yours in His Service,
