Mary Broeckert M D

Mary Broeckert, from Michigan, received much of her instruction in the Bible from her loving Christian parents. A small Baptist church also taught her the Scriptures well. God saved her at the age of seven and called her to serve Him as a missionary doctor at the age of eleven. Her pre-professional studies were at Grand Valley State University, and her M.D. from Michigan State University. God led Mary and her husband, Hubert Broeckert, M.Div., with their four young children to serve Him in the Sahara dessert.

Then the Lord moved their family, now including a fifth child, to the grasslands of Africa to work in Baptist Mid-Missions' hospital at Ippy, Central African Republic. God enabled her in the medical and surgical duties of the hospital as well as in teaching, administration, construction of new buildings, and teaching God's Word to women and children.

Later, the Lord took the Broeckerts to Cambodia in Southeast Asia. Mary cared for patients together with the Cambodian medical staff of a government provincial hospital. Although now retired from active missionary service, Mary continues to delight in God's presence, and enjoys their fourteen grandchildren.