Supporting our Mid-Wife

We are excited to have a new midwife who has joined our Hope Alive Clinic ministry, that Care4MORE supports monthly.

Tessie is 47 years old and a mother of four (3 boys and 1 girl, whose ages are 23, 21, 19, and 10 years old). Like many Filipinas, she was separated from her husband following the birth of her last child, making her the main provider for their family. She graduated from Dominican College in 1996 with a diploma in midwifery. She worked as a domestic helper in Saudi Arabia for 4 years, starting in 2013–2018, and another 4 years in Qatar from 2018–2022. Before joining Hope Alive, she worked as a midwife in near-by Cavite and Marikina. She is an exhorter in their church, Christ the Healer International Fellowship, and a reverent chaplain in the International Auxiliary Chaplain Association.  We are so glad for the maturity and experience that Tessie has brought to our Hope Alive Clinic!

The Hope Alive Clinic is now actively providing medical care to 375 prenatal mothers involved in our program. There are another 50 mothers in our Postpartum program. We are impacting over 700 different families a year which provides an incredible opportunity to share the gospel! To continue this growth message, we need to continue to provide quality service to show our care, and building our reputation. This will allow us to attract more mothers outside the Quatro community. To best serve this growing ministry, we need additional staff and midwife support. Your contribution makes a wonderful difference to this community as the lives we touch ripple out and affect those around them. Thank you for being an integral part of bringing the gospel and true “hope alive” to all the people we serve! 

Grace & Peace,

Nicole van den Engel, 

Missionary Director 

Hope Alive Health Care

Continue to pray for Nicole van den Engel, (our full-time missionary director), Rona (our lead nurse), and our new midwife, Tessie, as well as our entire HOPE ALIVE Clinic staff.  We covet your prayers as we formalize our contract for the additional land purchase which will provide our planned clinic expansion to build a Level-One city hospital desperately needed for the Cainta & Antipolo region of Rizal province.