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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE International healthcare and nonprofit leader to succeed longtime CEO Rick Allen, continuing MedSend’s mission of equipping healthcare professionals for global service FORT MILL, S. C. — [August 11, 2026] — MedSend announced today that, following a year-long, intentional CEO succession planning process initiated by current CEO Rick

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

When Dr. Felix Mulago, a National Scholar from Congo, was growing up, he was fascinated by the doctors he saw during routine medical visits. “I was always telling my parents that I wanted to become like these guys,” he recalled.  Today, Felix is preparing to graduate from Kabarak University’s Family Medicine residency

Healthcare meets hope.

See the groundbreaking ways healthcare is becoming the catalyst for evangelical missions, opening doors to regions previously inaccessible for the Gospel.

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Flourishing by Design: Imagining Medical Missions for 2040

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.