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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When the Rains Come, the Work Doesn’t Stop In Sierra Leone, the rainy season makes travel harder, clinics busier, and outreach more complex. Yet this is exactly where MedSend-supported physician Dr. Geoffrey Moses continues to serve, integrating health and discipleship in Sierra Leone in ways that reach both body and soul. In a country where maternal mortality remains among the highest in the world […]
As a child in rural Kenya, Cavine Ochieng watched neighbors live with untreated illness because the nearest hospital was far away and care felt unaffordable. Today, he is in family medicine training in Kenya to become the kind of doctor he rarely saw growing up. Now a resident at AIC Litein Hospital, Cavine is preparing to return to communities like his own. Places where access […]
One month after its release, Surrendered Heart: How God’s Calling Shapes Relationships continues to resonate with readers who are navigating calling, service, and the relational realities of global healthcare missions. Written by MedSend CEO Rick Allen, Surrendered Heart was created to address a gap many healthcare missionaries and supporters quietly feel. While much is written about the logistics of missions, fewer resources speak […]
When you meet one of our National Scholars in Cambodia, you quickly understand why this program matters so deeply. Dr. Rothavi’s story begins long before she ever put on a white coat—long before she knew her dream would be possible. Dr. Rothavi grew up wanting to become a doctor, but her family’s financial challenges made […]
When orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dan Galat and his family moved to Kenya, he couldn’t ignore the overwhelming number of patients in need — and the lack of trained specialists to care for them. What began as an unsustainable workload soon became a movement that is shaping the future of healthcare in Africa. Dr. Galat helped establish an orthopedic residency program at Tenwek Hospital, […]
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.
