Surgeon to the Poor | Tertius Venter
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Tertius was living the dream as a wealthy plastic surgeon until God called him to serve the world’s poorest on a mobile hospital boat with Mercy Ships. That surrender has taken him on a wild adventure impacting thousands of lives across many nations.
Check out www.mercyships.org | www.tertius26.org
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| 0:00.0 | A young, wonderful girl, 17 years old, walked to a shop one night and someone out of the dark threw acid in her face. |
| 0:09.0 | So she had this massive burn. Her cheekbone was actually stuck to her shoulder. |
| 0:15.0 | With a mouth opened, with a big whole, her whole cheek was gone. |
| 0:19.0 | Through all this time on the ship, she and her mother |
| 0:22.5 | was just the most beautiful people. Her mother actually told us that once she was in hospital |
| 0:27.1 | where they wanted to do surgery on her and there was a little baby who also had to go the same day |
| 0:32.5 | and she said, no, that baby must go first because that baby needs the surgery more than she does. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome everybody, this is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic week of hearing one of my friends' testimonies. |
| 0:48.3 | If you're new to us, basically, we just get relentlessly bombarded by negativity than press. |
| 0:54.3 | It's just, you know, if you spend too much time on that stuff, |
| 0:56.7 | you're just letting someone else curate all the bad news |
| 0:59.2 | going on the world to make you more depressed and cynical and anxious. |
| 1:02.4 | And what we need is dollops of good news and encouragement from across the globe. |
| 1:07.5 | And I've got no doubt that in an hour's time, |
| 1:09.9 | you'll leave feeling inspired because we've |
| 1:12.3 | got with us the wonderful Tertius Fenta. Welcome Tertius. Thank you so much. So good to have you. |
| 1:18.6 | So our mutual friend is Colin Bailey and he was telling about you I was staying with him preaching |
| 1:22.8 | in Liverpool a few weeks back and he said you've got to get Tertius on. So I'm speaking to you in Amsterdam right now, |
| 1:28.9 | but often you're on a ship because you're a surgeon involved in the wonderful ministry of |
| 1:34.4 | mercy ships, but also very involved in Amsterdam in the Red Light District there and apologetics. |
| 1:39.6 | Anyway, I'm really looking forward to hearing your story. So let's crack on with it. Tell us a bit about |
| 1:45.7 | your background. I grew up in a Christian home to start right at the beginning. Wonderful |
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