Highfield | A Time to Heal

The previously untold story of how a remarkable set of lay and professional nurses shaped Church of Christ (COC) missions in southeastern Nigeria. These women's decisions and actions occurred within a broader shift of COC perspectives away from missionary healthcare as incidental volunteer women's work, and toward healthcare missions as a Christian duty. For each being a missionary nurse meant delivering healthcare as part of Christian evangelism. To that end, they executed multiple roles: heale