| Les and Cindy Morgan
5th Floor
House #8, Road #5
Rupanagar Residential Area
Mirpur 2, Dhaka 1216
Bangladesh
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 4026
Shreveport, LA 71134
Email: Les
Morgan
Email: Cindy
Morgan
Editor's note, October 30, 2008. The Morgans are taking a leave of absence beginning November 1, 2008, in order to accompany their son Everett, who died from bone cancer on December 27, 2008.
The Morgans have made a 14-minute video about their ministry
in Bangladesh. For a free copy on DVD, contact Anne
Blair.
Les and Cindy Morgan have been serving as missionaries for the
PC(USA) in Bangladesh since 1989. After serving three years at
the Christian Health and Agricultural Project in Ahladipur (CHAPA),
they joined as health advisors for the Church of Bangladesh (COB)
and were stationed at Christian Mission Hospital (CMH) in Rajshahi
for 13 and a half years. In August 2006, the Morgans relocated
to the capital city of Dhaka, where they serve as advisors for
the Church of Bangladesh health ministries.
The Morgans continue to serve at Christian Mission Hospital,
traveling back and forth to Rajshahi once or twice a month. CMH
is an 80-bed facility that serves Muslims, Hindus, and Christians
from the greater Rajshahi area. Patients come to CMH because of
its reputation for compassionate care for the sick. The hospital’s
nursing school has a four-year training course with 60 students who are learning to serve the sick in Christ’s
name.
At CMH, the Morgans serve primarily as advisors to the new director,
Dr. Andrew Roy, and they continue to help shape and support the
hospital’s primary health care program that reaches out to serve
the marginalized tribal people in the rural areas of the district.
In Dhaka, the Morgans run clinics
in several of the Church of Bangladesh’s Christian Ministry
to Youth and Children (CMCY) program areas, and are helping to
further develop community health outreach in other COB programs. The Church of Bangladesh has also recruited their participation
in retreat leadership and to assist in leading the English-language worship
on Friday mornings.
After living more than 13 years in Rajshahi, a small city in
northwest Bangladesh on the Ganges River, the Morgans now live
in Dhaka, a teeming metropolis of 12 million people. “With
over 40,000 people per square mile,” write the Morgans,
“the traffic, the crowds, and the filth can be overwhelming.
Although living here is definitely a challenge, opportunities
for service abound. Here we are blessed with the opportunity to
live out our passion: to embody the loving presence of Christ in
the midst of a Muslim country during a time when religious tensions
are high all over the world.” |
