About CHIPS Missionary Volunteers

Rachel Parks is a nurse  from Columbus, Ohio who’s been working  in the pediatric ICU at Nationwide Children’s Hospital for the last four years. She recently graduated with a masters in Global Public Health with the aim of wanting to improve every person’s holistic health in communities and their access to quality healthcare. She will be  joining the Kudvumisa Foundation in 2024, helping to serve the people in Eswatini as we work to improve the communities’ health, knowledge, and skills. Rachel’s call to missions began at a young age. This was sparked by 6th grade mission trip where they served many inner-city communities in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the realization of how underserved these areas were that developed her desire to do mobile medical clinics to serve similar populations that were, in many ways, being overlooked. 

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In 2017, during her sophomore year of college, she made her first trip to Africa, and fell in love with the people and the culture. Rachel also speaks of how she felt her sense of purpose for the first time in her  life during that trip. Having served with an organization similar to Kudvumisa, Rachel  realized that mobile clinics were making many differences in underprivileged communities. In 2021 and 2022, she returned to Uganda where she  volunteered in a clinic in Kaabong; a community in one of the poorest regions of Uganda. In her own words, “This is where I witnessed the poorest communities and highest rate of poverty I have ever seen. These trips opened my eyes to the suffering of underserved, impoverished villages that needed not only physical healing, but spiritual, holistic healing.”

 

You can support Rachel through our donate page.