FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FORT MILL, S.C. — MedSend recently hosted the inaugural Mission Leadership Retreat, bringing together the heads of ten of the largest mission sending organizations for a first-of-its-kind gathering focused on collaboration, strategic innovation, and shared challenges across the missions landscape. Led by MedSend CEO Rick Allen, the retreat was designed to create space for executive leaders to think together, learn from […]
Grace Macharia remembers what it felt like to be the patient. “As a child, I was in and out of hospitals… I saw the frustration my parents were having to go through.” That experience shaped her future. By secondary school, Grace had made a decision to become a doctor. Today, Grace is one of MedSend’s National Scholars in Kenya, training in her fourth […]
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 […]
The MedSend National Scholars Program is helping train doctors across Africa to serve in places where healthcare is urgently needed. On a recent trip to Kenya, we had the opportunity to visit Kabarak University and record an interview with Dr. Belyse Arakaza, a graduate of the program currently working at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, whose story reflects both resilience […]
Fort Mill, SC — March 16, 2026 MedSend is honored to announce that it has been named one of ROI Ministry’s Top 10 Ministries for 2026, a distinction recognizing Christian organizations that demonstrate exceptional impact per dollar invested in advancing the gospel and meeting critical physical needs around the world. ROI Ministry is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping […]
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 […]
Fort Mill, SC — MedSend is delighted to celebrate Dr. Matthew Loftus, a MedSend-supported physician serving in Kenya, as the inaugural recipient of the 2025 Michael J. Gerson Memorial Prize for Excellence in Writing on Faith and Public Life. Awarded by The Trinity Forum, the Gerson Prize honors emerging writers whose work reflects the intellectual courage, moral conscience, and […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 2, 2026 Fort Mill, SC—MedSend is pleased to announce that Kim Snyder has accepted the role of Vice President, Nationals Longevity Project, a strategic expansion of MedSend’s commitment to care for healthcare professionals serving in global missions. Over the past three years, Snyder has successfully launched and led the MedSend Longevity Project, designed to support U.S. healthcare missionaries. […]
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 […]
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.
