Elizabeth Styffe is the director of the Western Rwanda HIV/AIDS Healthcare & Orphan Care Initiatives.  Elizabeth is a leader, advocate and educator who works from her experience and education as a Registered Nurse, Administrator and Clinical Specialist to inspire and equip local churches to care and act. She challenges government leaders, and those in both the public and private sector to consider local church-based strategies as critical to the challenges of global health.  She has led nurse-teams to Africa and teaches others how to engage non-healthcare professionals in care delivery.  She is active in the leadership arena of orphan care, HIV and the church.

Elizabeth and her husband, Glenn, have been married for 27 years and have seven children ages 7-22, 3 of which were adopted from Rwanda.

The world is looking to you for solutions to the Global Health Crisis. We have a mandate; we have a goal, what’s the plan? The plan is for us to serve Jesus by serving others. We can’t serve God without serving others with compassion and skill, doing what Jesus did both locally and globally. Experience the heart of our God toward the least, the lost and the lonely as we re-visit and re-think the Great Command and the Great Commission applied to healthcare. Transformational compassion and radical mission occurs when healthcare providers are envisioned to mobilize and empower ordinary people empowered by God’s Spirit, to do what Jesus did, together, wherever they are. Learn why the church is the hope of the world and what will happen if we surrender to His call to wholisitc care through the church. God designed us to make a difference in this world and to make an impact with our lives. Biblical compassion in action will change the world.