Paul Osteen Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Humanitarian work === Osteen ended his private career in 2005, instead choosing to address the lack of basic surgical care for those in Sub-Saharan Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paul Osteen hopes to mobilize medical community to meet 'overwhelming' global needs|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/paul-osteen-hopes-to-mobilize-medical-community-to-meet-overwhelming-global-needs.html|access-date=2020-06-09|website=www.christianpost.com|language=en}}</ref> Partnering alongside Christian aid-organizations like [[Samaritan's Purse]] and [[World Vision International|World Vision]], Osteen travels to rural parts of Zambia and Kenya to provide surgical care, deliver medical equipment, and train new doctors for communities otherwise isolated from healthcare.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lawson|first=Melanie|date=2016-02-09|title=Paul Osteen: How letting go led him to his true calling|url=https://abc13.com/1192226/|access-date=2020-06-09|website=ABC13 Houston|language=en}}</ref> In an interview about the role of the church in the fight against medical poverty, Osteen says:<blockquote>โWe, as the [[Christianity in the United States|American church]], canโt get so insulated that we forget poor, suffering people,โ Paul says. โIf we in the church become so religious we look the other way, itโs a sad thing.โ <ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-04-23|title=Dr. Paul Osteen's latest operation: 'Elevate the poor out of poverty'|url=https://www.worldvision.org/charitable-giving-news-stories/dr-paul-osteen-latest-operation-elevate-poor-poverty|access-date=2020-06-09|website=World Vision|language=en-US}}</ref></blockquote>Osteen also serves on teams that respond to immediate disasters, like the [[Refugees of Iraq|Iraq refugee crisis]], and often travels to areas suffering immediately after catastrophic events transpire.<ref>{{Cite web|last=BCNN1|title=Joel Osteen's Doctor Brother Paul Osteen Recalls Atrocities He Witnessed in Iraq & How God Worked Through Medical Missions {{!}} BCNN1 - Black Christian News Network|url=https://blackchristiannews.com/2018/12/joel-osteens-doctor-brother-paul-osteen-recalls-atrocities-he-witnessed-in-iraq-how-god-worked-through-medical-missions/|access-date=2020-06-09|language=en-US}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page