Mission from God

Scott and Gail Dooley don't have the typical 9 to 5 job. Instead, they are missionaries who live and work in Papua, New Guinea for the Church of the Nazarene. Recently, they paid a visit to the Auburn church to talk about their ministry. Scott is a physician and Gail is a registered nurse. Their assignment is at the Kudjip Nazarene Hospital, a 100-bed facility that cares for as many as 6,000 patients a month.

While the Dooleys are back in the United States, they will visit more than 40 different churches, most of which are in their home states of Missouri and Kansas. But they have a special reason for coming to Auburn. The parent church establishes links, which are relationships between missionaries and churches in a particular area. The Dooleys are linked with the churches in central New York.

“We're meeting the people who have helped to support us for the past two years,” said Scott. Scott received help from an agency called Project MedSend, which takes over the medical school loans of doctors who go to work in mission fields. This blessing allowed the Dooleys to go to New Guinea five years sooner than they expected.