FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE International healthcare and nonprofit leader to succeed longtime CEO Rick Allen, continuing MedSend’s mission of equipping healthcare professionals for global service FORT MILL, S. C. — [August 11, 2026] — MedSend announced today that, following a year-long, intentional CEO succession planning process initiated by current CEO Rick Allen and the Board of […]
Compassionate surgical care is about far more than surgery. When Peter Paul Opiro first began pursuing medicine, his goal was to become a surgeon. Today, after three years of advanced residency training through the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) and support from MedSend’s National Scholars Program, his understanding of surgery has grown into something much deeper. […]
When Dr. Felix Mulago, a National Scholar from Congo, was growing up, he was fascinated by the doctors he saw during routine medical visits. “I was always telling my parents that I wanted to become like these guys,” he recalled. Today, Felix is preparing to graduate from Kabarak University’s Family Medicine residency program in Kenya. His journey […]
Discover how MedSend is expanding global healthcare missions by supporting healthcare professionals, training Christian doctors, strengthening missionary well-being, and multiplying impact through local physician leaders.
A Message from MedSend’s Chief Development Officer, Morgan Boardman As we approach the close of MedSend’s fiscal year on June 30, I wanted to share one example of what your support makes possible in this final opportunity to give. Eleven surgeons. That is the number of MedSend-supported PAACS residents who have completed their training and are now serving […]
At Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, Dr. Lydiah Ngigi recently described caring for a critically ill child whose family had traveled all the way from Tanzania seeking help. “They do not have money,” she explained. “They do not have any insurance at the moment, and you can see that the child is really sick.” Those moments are why […]
Training doctors in Africa takes time. In many communities, delays in training mean delays in care. Dr. Paul Opare-Addo has seen how much difference that time can make. “Two years can make a huge difference in the lives of patients and communities.” Why Training Matters The National Scholars Program helps physicians begin residency sooner. That […]
After years of serving patients and training doctors in Kenya, Dr. Paul Opare-Addo has learned something that often goes unseen. Caring for healthcare missionaries sustains the work. “Serving on the field can pull you in so deeply that you don’t even realize how exhausted you’ve become.” That reality affects not only the physician, but their […]
In Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, MedSend-supported surgeon Dr. Jacques Ebhele is treating patients during the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC while many around him are living in fear. “This is my country, my town, and my people catching the disease and dying including nurses and doctors,” Jacques wrote to us this past week. He […]
After 60 Minutes, They Stopped In a rural operating room in Papua New Guinea, a 45-year-old woman — we’ll call her L — went into sudden cardiac arrest following surgery for early cervical cancer. Her heart slipped into ventricular fibrillation. The team shocked her five times. They administered medications. They searched for reversible causes. For […]
Our predecessors faithfully built institutions that have served for generations. Our challenge is different. We have inherited those institutions into a world they could scarcely have imagined. Population growth, urbanization, changing disease patterns, financial pressures, conflict, climate shocks, and technological change are reshaping healthcare across low- and middle-income countries.
Drawing on new data about the Christian health ecosystem, strategic consultations with global and African Christian health leaders, and field experience across Africa and Asia, this session explores what it will take for Christian health ministries to flourish by 2040.
Together we’ll imagine what it will take for Christian health ministries to flourish by 2040, strengthening resilient institutions, cultivating exceptional local leadership, and mobilizing a broader range of Christian expertise from medicine and nursing to governance, education, engineering, finance, data science, and technology.
How can Christian health ministries become indispensable partners in building resilient health systems that reflect the compassion and hope of Christ? The legacy of the next generation of medical missions will be measured not only by the number of missionaries sent, but by the resilience, flourishing, and Christ-centered witness of systems they strengthen.
