Medical Missions

Healthcare missionary support isn’t only about helping someone get to the mission field.  It’s about helping them remain there.  For Eric and Mollie, that has meant serving in rural Chad since 2011—living among local communities where access to healthcare is limited, clean water is scarce, and many people have never heard the name of Jesus. Eric worked in community health, teaching hygiene and […]

Training National Doctors in Kenya: Dr. Carol Spears’ Mission  When Dr. Carol Spears transitioned from a corporate career to medicine, she never imagined that God would lead her to impact global healthcare in such a profound way. Today, she serves at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, helping to equip the next generation of national doctors through […]

Oxygen — essential for life, and especially vital to have available if you need hospitalization. In the Hospital of Hope (HoH) in northern Togo, the capacity of the hospital’s oxygen concentration system was inadequate to keep up with the increasing patient population. Doctors had to choose who would receive life-giving oxygen — a choice no […]

Burundi faces a severe shortage of doctors, with most specialists concentrated in the cities and many healthcare professionals leaving the country due to economic hardship. Dr. Boaz Niyinyumva, a MedSend-supported physician, is working to change this by training national doctors and helping to launch a Family Medicine residency program. His mission is not only to […]

It’s the first day of his mission trip to the Dominican Republic in 1992, and Ryan* wakes up to find a line of locals at the gate eager to see “el doctor.” This trip isn’t even supposed to be a medical mission, but the locals somehow learned that there was an American doctor on the team.

– St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa) As I sit down to write this blog post, my adrenaline is still pumping from having watched Pat…