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The opening of Grace Hospital

Clinic time

Children getting examined at a clinic in Togo, West Africa. Photo provided

Judy Hooper

Waiting to see a doctor.

LaQuita Clark, LPN

Inside the hospital.

Midge McCay and friends.

A new dress

Midge McCay holds a poster board of photos from past mission trips to Togo. Photo by Alyssa Schnugg

Midge McCay has traveled across the ocean to Togo, West Africa several times with North Oxford Baptist Church on a mission trip to provide health care to the villagers.

This year; however, she will not be going, but that didn’t stop her from working to help organize the mission trip for about a dozen others, mostly from the medical community.

The church has been sponsoring mission trips to Vogan, Togo since 2004 and helping raise funds to help build the Grace Hospital that opened in 2009. The church holds various fundraisers to pay for the mission trips and medical supplies.

“We also raised $4,700 this year to purchase 1,000 sickle cell test kits,” McCay said.

The group of medical professionals and church members left for Togo on Friday. They will return on July 21. Joining the mission trip this year is:

Mark Roberson, On the Ground Team Leader; Zack Brent, pharmacist; Dr. Todd Threadgill; Dr. Lee Norris; Belinda Nurse, RN; Sarah Moore, nurse practitioner; Jennifer Rambo-Theobald, RN; LaQuita Clark, LPN; and Dr. A.J. Lynch.

Before the hospital was opened, the missionaries would hold clinics in a local church.

Pastor Kokou Loko and his wife, Yvette, started the church and the mission to build the clinic.

The couple lives in Togo when they are not traveling around the world, and the US, to raise money for the hospital. They have three children and one of their daughters, Kellygrace Loko, graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2023 and is pursuing her medical degree to become a doctor.

The doctors see and treat various injuries and ailments – from malnourishment to untreated infections, as well as provide checkups for growing children and the elderly.

“So many people in America don’t realize how fortunate we are,” she said.

For more information on how to help support North Oxford Baptist Church’s mission trips to Togo, call the church office at 662-234-1101.

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