The MedSend National Scholars Program is helping train doctors across Africa to serve in places where healthcare is urgently needed. On a recent trip to Kenya, we had the opportunity to visit Kabarak University and record an interview with Dr. Belyse Arakaza, a graduate of the program currently working at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, whose story reflects both resilience […]
As a child in rural Kenya, Cavine Ochieng watched neighbors live with untreated illness because the nearest hospital was far away and care felt unaffordable. Today, he is in family medicine training in Kenya to become the kind of doctor he rarely saw growing up. Now a resident at AIC Litein Hospital, Cavine is preparing to return to communities like his own. Places where access […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 Vía, an impoverished area in their town. La Vía is a hillside community […]
When Dr. Franka Aguko was just a schoolgirl, she helped care for her mother after surgery. Cleaning wounds and dressing bandages sparked something deep inside her—a call to medicine. But it was a moment years later, during her undergraduate studies, that truly changed everything. A woman in severe pain came to the hospital needing […]
In the heart of Malawi, MedSend-supported doctor Christina Miller is proving that sustainable change happens when training local leaders to serve their own communities. After giving a talk in a rural village on preventing childhood illnesses, Christina was met with a challenge: “That’s a great talk, but what are you going to do for […]
“God had really grown our faith to that degree, to where we could stand in the face of danger and trust that the Lord was fully sovereign.” Geoffrey Moses, a family medicine physician, and his wife Nicole, an occupational therapist, serve in healthcare missions in West Africa in a country severely impacted by a civil […]
Dr. Tim Love is a passionate general surgeon whose journey into medical missions has reshaped lives in Southern Ethiopia. As the program director for the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) at Soddo Christian Hospital, Dr. Love dedicates his work to training national healthcare leaders, empowering them with both clinical excellence and a heart for […]
