Terry and Jeannie Dietrich have been serving in the field of Medical Mission work for over 30 years. Terry, an Orthopedic Surgeon, graduated from Loma Linda University with a degree in Medicine while Jeannie complete her education with a degree in Nursing.  They met and married while at Loma Linda, and upon Terry’s completion of a residency in Orthopedic Surgery, they decided to pursue full time mission work in medicine.  They accepted a full time position in Puerto Rico, where they spent the next 12 years of their lives, living, working, and raising their children.  During that time, Terry began outreach to Los Alcarrizos in the Dominican Republic, a town just outside of the capital of Santo Domingo.  While they returned to the United States to continue their ministry stateside and to raise their family, they have traveled to the hospital there, Hospital La Esperanza, multiple times a year to perform surgery to the indigent people in the Southern DR.

On January 12, 2010, a devastating 6.9 earthquake ravaged the city of Port Au Prince, Haiti and the southern part of the country.  Within days, Terry and Jeannie knew they were called to go to Port Au Prince to help with the relief effort.  Their first trip to Port Au Prince landed them at Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti, in Carrefour, just a mile from the epicenter where they spent two weeks working almost around the clock with teams of volunteers from around the US and world to save lives and limbs of the Haitian people. Before they left the hospital, they felt God’s call to return, not for a week or two, but for a year, to give continuity of healthcare to the people there. Since that time, they have been preparing for a year long commitment in medical service to the hospital there. They leave in November, 2010, to continue their outreach to spread the Love of Jesus through medical service.