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“He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:18-19. 

ChOSEN Eye Mission, the Christian Ophthalmic Surgery Expedition Network, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing high-quality, free eye surgery to people in underserved communities around the world while sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We believe ophthalmic surgery provides a unique opportunity to meet both physical and spiritual needs. Cataracts and other treatable eye conditions can leave people needlessly blind when quality surgical care is unavailable or unaffordable. Through our international ophthalmology mission trips, ChOSEN brings volunteer ophthalmologists and medical professionals to underserved communities to provide free cataract surgery, retinal surgery, and other sight-restoring eye care.

Christian Ophthalmic Surgery Expedition Network (ChOSEN) was founded in 2014 as a 501c3 public charity in order to provide high-quality eye surgery at no cost to the patient and share the Gospel to the developing world. Throughout these years of service, ChOSEN has strived not only to perform a greater number of eye surgeries during each successive year but also to expand to nations where eye care is scarce.  ChOSEN is inter-denominational and principally concerned with sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ as displayed in the Holy Bible through prayer, preaching, discussion, song, scripture reading, and the gifting of Bibles to patients and their families. 

Our Journey

In 2009, Drs. J. Avery Rush and Ryan Rush, both board-certified ophthalmologists from Texas, began providing eye surgeries in Mexico. Over time, they established partnerships with local ophthalmologists, invested in surgical facilities, and brought in high-quality equipment and supplies. This groundwork laid the foundation for Chosen’s growth outside of Mexico.
In 2019, the Chosen Board of Directors made the decision to expand its missionary activities into other underdeveloped countries where little to no eye surgery was being performed on the indigent population. Work began Nicaragua in 2021, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2022, the Amazonian region of Peru in 2024, and Ghana in 2026. Today, ChOSEN continues to develop long-term international partnerships, equip surgical facilities, recruit volunteer ophthalmologists and medical professionals, and provide free sight-restoring surgery to patients in need.

Restoring Sight. Sharing the Gospel.

Our goal is simple: provide excellent eye surgery to people who otherwise may not have access to it and use that opportunity to demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.

Through donations, volunteer service, and partnerships with medical professionals and local communities, ChOSEN can continue restoring sight and bringing hope to patients and families around the world.

“Help us continue the transformative work of restoring sight to the blind and proclaiming the year of the Lord’s favor to our patients in great physical and spiritual need. Whether by monetary or in-kind gifts or acts of service, you can make a difference. ChOSEN works as the healing hands of a compassionate God who commands His confessors to look after the needs of our impoverished and downtrodden neighbors, while at the same time pointing them to The Great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ whose death on the cross covers over all of our sins and offers the definitive healing to our bodies and minds!”

Ryan Rush, M.D. – Co-Founder, ChOSEN