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This article explores the faith‐based medical missions of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi to underserved rural indigenous peoples of Panama. The Mississippi Model focuses on health care delivery and de‐emphasizes conversion to a religious faith, an approach that some may classify as a faith‐based community performing secular tasks. However, the Mississippi Model arises from incarnational theology, which—viewed from both historical and contemporary perspectives—argues against a secular categorizing of the mission clinics. Consistently, our interviews with missioners, participant‐observations, and review of the Episcopal Church literature, both nationally and in Mississippi, suggest that mission performance is considered a practice of faith not distinct from other expressions of faith, such as liturgical worship.