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Faithful Servants Care Center Dr. Tom Myers, Dermatologist helping a patient.
Interested in some good news about healthcare? Healthcare seems to be dominating the news presently, but in Tallmadge, Ohio there has been “Good News” about healthcare for low-income and at-risk populations for five years! F a i t h f u l S e r va n t s Care Center, founded five years ago by Drs. Sue and Mark Meyer with the help of their mentor Dr. David Hoff, has been providing free urgent-care services to those without insurance or the economic means to access traditional health care. Incredible medical professionals and volunteers without a medical background staff the free-clinic, open Sunday through Friday from 5:30-9:00 p.m. Drs. Mark and Sue Meyer, after serving with shortterm medical missions teams overseas, felt a deep
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calling to the needs in their own community. Faithful Servants Care Center was founded five years ago in Tallmadge and has grown in size, location, and impact. Faithful Servants was able to obtain a mobile van that has opened doors to bring free medical care to other areas of Summit County. Currently Faithful Servants operates three sites where doctors, nurses and lay-volunteers visit weekly to bring care to neighborhoods with high medical needs and low access. Each week, Faithful Servants provides care at the Haven of Rest, South Street Ministries’ Front Porch facility, and Urban Vision in the North Hill neighborhood. Faithful Servants hopes to continue to expand these ministries! Perhaps one reason for the remarkable growth over such a short time is the organization’s foundation of faith. A guiding passage for the leadership at Faithful Servants is Matthew 25: 34-36 -- “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I
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