Health for All

<p><strong>Political and Economic Turmoil. Sickness and Spiritual Darkness. A Hospital Without Running Water. And 250000 People in Need of a Doctor.</strong></p><p></p><p>When Dan Fountain and his wife arrived in the Congo in 1961 the challenges to effective medical missions seemed overwhelming. As the only doctor for a quarter of a million residents of the Vanga Health Zone and with nothing but a dilapidated mission hospital and an under-trained staff to run it Dr. Fountain turned to prayer innovation and local partnerships to meet the vast needs of his area.</p><p></p><p><em>Health for All</em> tells the story of an ever-increasing vision-from curative care to community health from a barely functioning hospital to a network of successful health services from a lack of qualified workers to a local residency training program from biomedical reductionism to whole person care from cultural stalemate to worldview transformation. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Fountain's insights into health and wholeness have changed countless lives and communities. Part memoir part history part textbook Health for All is the legacy of a man who patterned his life and labor after that of the Great Physician.</p>