CBN International and Operation Blessing International in partnership with Calvary Ministries International, (CAPRO) organized a two-day medical mission in Miya village, Bauchi State, Northern Nigeria. The mission was aimed at expressing the love of Christ to the less privileged Nigerians in Bauchi State by providing them with free primary health care service. The clinic lasted two days, April 26-27, 2003.

CBN provided all the drugs used for the mission while CAPRO provided a team of three medical doctors and three pharmacists drawn from Jos University Teaching Hospital and other hospitals in the Jos area.

During the event 350 people were treated for various ailments. Out of this number, 20 people surrendered their lives to Christ.

The community head, Alhaji Yakubu Luga was overwhelmed by the demonstration of CBN's love and care towards his people at this time of their greatest need for medical treatment. When interviewed, he said: "Thank you CBN for your assistance. Even if the medical care were not free, we would have paid to be well. But it is free and my wife and I feel much better. What more can I say, but to thank you, and may God continue to bless you and the work you are doing."

He later invited the doctors to his palace to treat his wives and children. While there, the doctors seized the opportunity to witness to the entire family. Although there was no immediate salvation, a seed has been sown in the hearts of the people.

"This medical mission has enhanced our ministry here," said Pastor Timothy, CAPRO resident missionary. "It has also removed a lot of obstacles for us to freely witness to everybody in this community. Moreover, it has created a conducive atmosphere for us to follow up the converts."

During the event, a video outreach was organized. 1,500 people were exposed to Christ through the showing of Muzika. Out of this 10 people surrendered their lives to Christ. This brings the total number of salvations recorded during the medical mission to 30 people.

A special case was recorded during the mission. A young convert, a woman of 22 years and a mother of one, came to the clinic with severe burns on her left upper arm. She has suffered these burns for six months without solution and every attempt to get good treatment from the hospital proved abortive due to her financial incapability. Meanwhile, her husband has threatened to divorce her because she has embraced Christianity.

As God would have it, one of the doctors in the medical team happened to be a plastic surgeon who also does cleft lip surgery in Jos University Teaching Hospital. The doctor examined the nature of the burns and recommended that she should be brought to the Teaching Hospital for excision and skin grafting to prevent malignant transformation. When the woman heard this, she was shocked and dumb-founded, having suffered acute pain in the last six months without any help from any quarter and all of a sudden God was coming through for her in a way she never expected.

The doctor estimated her treatment to cost between $250 to $300.

The mission was indeed a huge success.