Community-Based Prevention and Care
Mobile Model Revives Church Health Ministry in Liberia
We have an inspiring update to a story we shared in January 2023, Faith Leads Liberian CCIH Member through Hardship and Comeback. Jeneba Boyd, a CCIH Individual Member and registered nurse and midwife in the Paynesville area of Monrovia, Liberia, attended the 2015 CCIH conference and was motivated to start a clinic at her church.
With the support of a loan from a microfinancing institution, Jeneba started a clinic in a very poor and underserved community home to 10,000 people in 2017. On the first day it was open, the clinic served 300 people and provided free malaria treatment, treated pregnant women, and made referrals. The clinic operated for a short time, but due to increases in rent, the costs of medicines and supplies, utility bills, taxes, and other expenses, the clinic was no longer able to provide free services, and eventually had to close.
Jeneba said that while the closing of the clinic was extremely disappointing, she was inspired to continue the health work by establishing a Medical Outreach Department in her Church. The Church – the Trans-continental Evangelistic Ministry (also known as The Transcea Bible Church) – has 50 branches nationwide.
Photo: A church health team member checks blood pressure in a health outreach in Monrovia in March 2025.
Since we published the story in January of 2023, the church launched its mobile clinic, bringing health services to people in Monrovia and beyond. Health services include HIV testing and counseling, rapid diagnostic malaria testing, treatment for malaria and diarrhea, and stabilizing high blood pressure, as well as education on family planning, personal hygiene, and the importance of using insecticide-treated bed nets. The church health workers refer clients to the hospital if symptoms do not improve.
The church served over 150 people at a mobile outreach clinic in Monrovia in March of 2025 (Top photo: the health team during the March 2025 outreach). The church hosted an additional health outreach with the mobile clinic during its Church Workers Conference and National Retreat, held from June 24 to 28 at a retreat ground in Margibi County.
Photo: Jeneba Boyd presents on diabetes, one of the leading causes of death in the area, at the Church Workers Conference held in Margibi County in June 2025.
Reconnecting and Moving Forward
“It was not easy to see the clinic close down years ago,” said Jeneba. “It was heartbreaking, but thank God so much for his grace, because it was God who gave me the wisdom and courage to carry on this medical outreach through the church. My prayer is that we will move beyond the church to the community if we find the funding.” The outreaches are currently financed through special offerings at the church.
Photo: Jeneba Boyd (far right) at the CCIH 2025 Conference with Jennifer Hatzfield of the Meros Center and Hamilton Kambalame of Kingdom Workers in Malawi.
Jeneba has stayed connected to CCIH, attending the 2018 conference at Johns Hopkins University and recently attending the CCIH 2025 Conference at Catholic University in Washington, DC, 10 years after the CCIH conference at Marymount University that helped inspire this health outreach.
“It felt so good to be a part of it,” she said. “It helps me connect with other people and also makes me see God working in my life. This year’s conference theme, Change Agents for All, was a great lesson for me. As a Pastor’s wife and a health worker, I feel like I am the salt and light locally and globally in the world. This light should shine in my workplace, my church, and my environment. Thank God so much for the conference organizers, donors, and sponsors for making it a success.”
Editor’s Note: CCIH shares this interview in good faith and did not independently verify the events described. CCIH individual members are not vetted with the scrutiny of organizational members.