Spring 2026

Dear friends and partners with CEH in the Lord’s work,

At the 2026 National Prayer Breakfast in DC, Governor Bobby Lee of TN shared his testimony that after the tragic death of his first wife in 2008, he discerned from the Lord these thoughts she might wish to say to him. “There are very few things in life that matter and we have to be about those things. Both the good days and the bad days give clarity to our purpose.” These words changed his life. Do we have the maturity to live in this way?

Good Friday: Christ was crucified for all of our sins. It was the only adequate substitutional atonement. It was supremely costly for Him and for the Father. It was a bad day, but it won ultimate victory over sin and death.

Easter: He is risen! This proved that the sacrifice on the cross was approved and accepted by the Father, that we now have familial access and intimacy with God and that we're given the purpose of being ministers in life and in word of this truth of reconciliation in our world! This was the best day!

Now we progress further discerning the things that matter—in the power of the Holy Spirit. In our home and local community and in our extended ministries, let's bloom where He has planted us.

Your fellow servant,

Dr. Dwight E Slater, MD

CEO of CEH

Our 2026 primary focus is recruiting professionals to train our staff further

We are prayerfully seeking to recruit missionaries and to hire African professionals trained beyond current levels available in Guinea to serve with us and grow together toward excellence. We especially need Family Practice Doctors, Surgeons, and Nurse Educators, as we share on our web site. This is an arduous path. Several candidates are in process. Please pray for success in this to His glory.

Throughout last year, five of our nine Board Members* personally participated in this process.

• Clayton Geno* made a trip in January 2025 installing security cameras, IT and radio equipment. He trained Ezechiel to use and monitor these.

• Mindy Roduner* visited CEH and gave administrative counsel to Etienne as she visited the hospital and shared from her extensive experience with government/NGO relationships

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• In May, Dr. Dwight* and Debbie’s visit contributed to the global ministries of CEH, FR, CIHI and MIAPE and governmental and community relations. Special emphasis was on the staff’s marriages with teaching from the Re-Engage program. They visited and encouraged each department on site.

• In December, Dr. Shawn O’Driscoll and Dr. Duane Anderson contributed to the orthopedic and surgical services. Their training and suggestions for procedural improvements in those departments were significant. They facilitated four orders for essential orthopedic instruments to advance patient care. The service we offer is better than the regional care, and we desire to continually progress and become the regional referral hospital for these services. Pray for Dr. Paul (surgeon) and Lacina (OR coordinator/surgical tech) and Nestor (nurse anesthetist) as they lead in this transformation.

• Dr. Joel Michaelson* and Chantal O’Driscoll* each contributed training and support to the hospital dental services and Fresh Rosée School which they respectively facilitate.

Our second focus is the need for accessibility to full hospital services 24/7 at CEH

A recent internal survey showed time spent waiting for completion of services in the clinic was the highest concern of our local population. We eliminated the triage step, refocused efforts of our doctors to continuity and comprehensive/compassionate service and to laboratory communicating results efficiently. This reduced patient’s “duration of care” time by 20-30%! With this, the volume of patients has increased, though we are still not at ideal levels. We are now also addressing the need for younger doctors and nurses to cover night and weekend shifts which our current limited staff could not previously adequately cover. These professionals will now also be our focus of training.

Highlight of the 2025 year—CEH/MIAPE ministry to the children of Guinea

Fresh Rosée grew from 425 to 799 registered students and added a second school site to serve these children. The children achieved excellent academic results at a level of over 90 percent passage tests. The national public school passage rate is 35 percent. In addition to these academic results, the children all hear Bible lessons twice a week.

The summer camp ministered to well over 160 students from the Fouta Djalon region with Bible lessons, worship, crafts, and sports. Several professions of faith were made in each of these contexts! 

The MIAPE Sunday School had several “children focused” weekends with similar activities and enthusiastic support of the adults in the community. CEVEEN (Children’s Activity and Evangelism center) opened a day care for our CEH staff children and some from the community at the 0 to 3 year-old level. This is very rare in Africa. In Guinea the median age is only 18.3 years, so we must focus on young children!

We emphasized improvements in equipment over construction in 2025 

The container sent in August arrived in November. It contained:

• Laboratory equipment including a blood bank and incubator to allow for wound cultures and sensitivities.

• An automated refractor to improve prescribing correct glasses efficiently.

• Dental office furnishings and equipment.

• Furnishings for the seven-room clinic expansion, completed in 2025

• Essential orthopedic and ambulatory assistance equipment.

• General medical supplies, sutures, housekeeping equipment (including shop-vacs), and guest house supplies.

• Multiple construction tools (including a table saw), tires for the CAT, plumbing and electrical supplies, and maintenance fluids.

Most of these were gifts-in-kind donations, which in total value exceeded the financial donations for the mission throughout the whole year. All this had to be transported to Guinea, cleared through Guinea customs, and taken to CEH. Now we must train the staff in the proper use/maintenance of this equipment—a significantly important task!

Construction progress

• 2025–2026 We started construction of a fourth professional residence for whomever our next doctor may be. (Additional need, $10,000)

• Improvements to the hospital entrance were needed to improve entry and exit safety of our clients, since the main highway in front of the hospital was completed and traffic increased. (Additional need, $5,000)

• We are starting construction on bricking in our perimeter fence to better define our property. This helps avoid potential squatter problems as the community develops around the hospital. It also limits cattle, sheep and snakes that visit us. The perimeter fence is comprised of 220, four-meter (15 foot) sections for a total of 880 meters (3300 feet). At a cost of $77 per four four-meter sections, the total cost is $17,000.

• We are starting a Welcome Center for Staff. This is an eight-room motel-like structure to accommodate future nursing students and national staff until they find homes in the local community. ($32,000)

• Later in the year if the patient volume requires it, we hope to add two more surgical rooms ($85,000) and an ObGyn Ward (additional need $10,000).

• In 2025 we completed the internal fencing to improve sanitation by excluding animals.

• We made necessary improvements for Fresh Rosée school with toilets, showers, athletic grounds, and mosquito screens to accommodate the students and summer campers. We also built a set of toilets near the clinic for patients’ convenience.

Spiritual Fruit

All our medical and administrative staff are Christians, and we have two chaplains on staff (one full-time and one part-time). The gospel continues to be shared faithfully through veranda preaching, Christian videos (including the Jesus film), bedside witness, chaplain visits, a Christian book stand, music and sermons over the PA system. Prayers for patients are widely accepted. Reported conversions are few. The CEH ministries continue to spread and plant seeds in the Mamou community which remains 99.9% Muslim. We have cordial and mutually kind relationships with community leaders and many families, but only occasionally evident fruit. Children’s ministries noted above seem much more fruitful currently. The three local evangelical churches and the Catholic church are growing (20% in 2025) but this is often by immigration of individuals from more receptive tribal groups coming from southeast Guinea for economic and educational opportunities, or health care jobs, since Mamou is a rapidly growing commercial center. We are pleased to see an emphasis on discipleship after Christ in the Christian community. We also see marked enthusiasm for worship and growth.

Distributions of Donations in 2025: Total received $322,642

• US Administrative expenses: accounting, financial review, promotions and communications. 6.7%

• Ministry in Africa 93.3%

• MIAPE missionaries (9) and short-term African Professionals 29%

• Equipment and capital development including container costs 64.3%

In pursuing ultimate self-sufficiency for Guinea CEH operations: 95 percent of the cost of Guinean staff salaries, medicines, laboratory, x-ray, and local medical supplies and equipment are covered from Guinea hospital revenues! Praise God! These finances are accounted for separately but reported to our USA CEH Board quarterly.

 

The ultimate currency that advances spiritual work is our earnest, consistent prayer before the throne of God. Thank you so much for each of you who labor with us in this ministry for His glory. Keep praying!