Our_History

Healing & Hope International

Loran Long, who had grown up in Central America, was in the early 1960’s living in San Diego. He had accepted the Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord, and was preparing to be a doctor. He had gone through college and had started pre- med school, when he decided His Lord was calling him to be a missionary. Even though Loran was married and had two children, he transferred to the Bob Jones University for the appropriate Biblical training.

After completing his training Loran returned to San Diego, and in 1963 started to travel down the Baja, 165 miles south to San Quintin, to do missionary work on the weekends. Loran was so encouraged with the response to the Gospel, that he decided it was necessary to move his family to San Quintin.

After relocating, he obtained a redwood water tank, and built a 8' x 8' plywood storage shed, from which his wife was planning to teach second and third grade to their two girls. However, the people in the area soon found out that Loran had gone to pre-med school, and they would walk to his mobile home every day of the week to ask him to help them with their sickness and injuries. So Loran started to obtain all of the medical samples he could from doctors in San Diego, and using a Physician Reference Book, he started treating the people out of what was suppose to be the storage shed/school

house... That shed became “the first medical office” in San Quintin.

In 1965 land was purchased, as was a surplus military Quonset hut building. It was dismantled and then trucked to San Quintin and reassembled into two buildings - a machine shop and a medical building. This was “the first medical clinic” in San Quintin, consisting of four rooms: an office and examination room; a one-bed ward, a dental room, and a medical supply room. That year they also borrowed a road grader, and created an airstrip - which would also be the beginning of Mexican Medical's fly-in ministry.

In subsequent years “the first hospital” was built in San Quintin and Mexican Medical Inc. was formed in the U.S.A. to support it. Since then Mexican Medical has built many other hospitals in various places throughout Mexico - most of which are still functioning well under national leadership today.

To support these and additional ministries, in 1998 Healing & Hope International was founded in Canada; and in 2010 El Curativo y Esperanza, A.C. was founded in Mexico.

Today, we are active throughout Baja California, and in other parts of Mexico as well, partnering with local churches, clinics and hospitals in each of those areas.