Twelve years on the mission field changes how you understand calling. For Melissa Sandberg, it revealed something essential: medical missionary longevity depends on intentional support, not endurance alone. A Demanding Calling, Lived Daily Melissa served at Mukinge Hospital in Zambia, caring for patients in the pediatric and female surgical wards. Her days were filled with critically ill patients, long […]
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 […]
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 […]
Guest Post by MedSend-supported doctor Viral Hemorrahagic Fever Has Come to Ethiopia It has been a truly stressful season in Ethiopia. We were coming off a stretch of hosting many visitors and the normal pressure of busy hospital work, when on November 11 my house worker informed me that her neighbor had died suddenly. He was […]
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, […]
Guest Post By MedSend-supported psychologist Dr. Eveylen Badillo Cordero On January 11, 2025, I had the opportunity to lead a group of 33 volunteers from Catacumba Church in Aguadilla, PR, along with three community leaders, and conducted an evangelistic feeding outreach in La VÃa, an impoverished area in their town.  La VÃa is a hillside community […]
Caring for the Caregivers: Why The Longevity Project Matters Healthcare missionaries often serve in some of the most physically, emotionally, and spiritually demanding environments on earth. For many, the burden of sacrifice is constant—long hours, limited resources, isolation, trauma, and spiritual fatigue can take their toll over time. We believe that the ones delivering compassionate, […]
A Story of Redemption and Hope Psychiatry PA Joshua Cobb didn’t expect one of his earliest therapy cases in London to be a battle between life and death. As he began treatment for a young woman overwhelmed by depression and past suicide attempts, he relied on two things: God’s faithfulness and the prayers of MedSend […]
