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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MedSend to the World Grant Recipients This year, the voices of MedSend to the World Grant Recipients reminded us why this mission matters. Doctors serving in the world’s hardest-to-reach places are bringing life-saving care and the love of Christ to those who need it most. These are the voices that inspire us. Longevity Project Participants Serving […]
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 […]
Together, we support. Together, we sustain. Together, we serve. On a recent MedSend spiritual journey through Greece and Turkey, a unique group gathered—Longevity Project participants, global healthcare missionaries, and the donors who make their work possible. Among them was Donna Geuser. A Journey Through Faith and Service “I came on this trip to learn about […]
Pictured above: Charlie and Frauke Schaefer (Alongside), Jim Ritchie (Alongside), Rick Allen (MedSend CEO) A Vision to Care for Those Who Care for Others When MedSend launched The Longevity Project, it answered a question few others were asking about sustaining healthcare missionaries: How do we not only help send healthcare missionaries, but help them stay healthy—spiritually, […]
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.
