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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
Christian medical missions are often focused around a patient in need—but sometimes they begin with a question that refuses to fade. For MedSend-supported surgeon Dr. Suja Brane, that question came in the middle of exhaustion, full clinics, and very real limits. Suja serves in Senegal with the backing of MedSend, which helps make it possible for healthcare […]
Sustainable Healthcare in Cambodia What do you think of when you hear the word Mission Hospital? Thousands of poor patients lined up for miles? Missionary doctors who never sleep? While that may sound heroic, mission hospitals run like this are often needs-based, ignoring capacity or long-term sustainability. They often do not stand the test of time. […]
Artwork by E, age 10 See The Mission Field Through Their Eyes These drawings were made by the children of MedSend Grant Recipients—kids growing up in remote corners of the world while their parents bring healing and the love of Christ to those who need it most. When you give to MedSend, you’re not only […]
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.
