American Mission Hospitals History American Mission Hospitals HistoryIn 1895 Samuel Zwemer, one of the co-founders of the Reformed Church of America’s (RCA) Arabian Mission, stopped in Kuwait City on his way from Bahrain to Basrah. At the time, he noted that it was “the cleanest Arab town in the Gulf . . .”That stop may have been the moment the RCA became interested in working in Kuwait. In his history of the Arabian Mission, Lewis R. Scudder III wrote that the organisation considered Kuwait “to be a very promising site for its work. It had two principle virtues. First, it was a relatively clean place . . . it was…