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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are places in the world where the gospel cannot be preached openly, where no missionary visas will ever be granted, and where millions live without even basic medical care. Yet in these same places, God is at work—reaching the unreached through healthcare. More than 3.1 billion people remain unreached by the gospel. At the […]
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, […]
