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 […]
“If it’s time for her to go, I trust You. But please, if I can, I want to keep her.” Rebecca Mallay whispered that prayer on the cold floor of a hospital bathroom as her infant daughter fought for her life. Years later, she and her husband, Seth, would cling to the same surrendered trust as they walked […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2026 RICK ALLEN RELEASES NEW BOOK Surrendered Heart: How God’s Calling Shapes Relationships — A Bold Look at the Hidden Challenges of Global Healthcare Missions FORT MILL, SC — On January 13, 2026, author and MedSend CEO Rick Allen will release his newest book, Surrendered Heart: How God’s Calling Shapes Relationships, a powerful collection of missionary […]
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.
