Operation Renewed Hope, a 501(c)(3), organizes and deploys teams of evangelists and volunteer medical professionals worldwide. The mission of Operation Renewed Hope is: "Touching the Heart...Reaching the Soul." By providing free medical, dental, and optometry clinics along with presenting the gospel. Before medical attention is offered (barring an emergency) attendees must first hear the gospel preached. Operation Renewed Hope has planted and grown churches in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Guyana, India, and Uganda. For nearly 20 years, Operation Renewed Hope has been blessed to treat and witness to tens of thousands of Third World citizens. Operation Renewed Hope also conducts Christian training "boot camps" to train volunteers in survival skills, water and helicopter safety, First Aid, and CPR with special emphasis on "How to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Churches often send their teens and sponsors to this preparatory course followed by deploym