In connection with the MedSend NFL Draft Experience, we would love you to join us for dinner. Enjoy an evening of fellowship, MedSend updates, and a special message from Derek Webber, a MedSend Grant Recipient, followed by a live viewing of Round 1 of the NFL Draft. Come be part of this exciting evening and celebrate the impact your partnership is making around the world.
Physician Assistant
Derek Webber has served cross-culturally for more than 15 years and has been serving with Serge in East Africa for the past 12 years. He currently serves in Chogoria, Kenya, where he partners with PCEA Chogoria Hospital to bring hope and healing to communities across central Kenya. Derek serves as a Physician Assistant in the hospital’s Casualty Department, where he consults with Clinical Officers, leads clinical training for staff, and co-leads ACLS, BLS, and PALS training programs throughout the hospital. In addition to his medical work, Derek and his wife partner with the hospital chaplains to encourage their ministry and support outreach efforts both within the hospital and in the surrounding community. His wife also co-leads Chogoria Mission School, a homeschool cooperative that serves missionary families, and is actively involved in ministry through hospitality and children’s outreach in the local community. Together, Derek and his wife are raising their four children while faithfully serving and supporting the people of Chogoria.
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.
