MedSend

Just a few weeks ago I was blessed to learn I had been awarded a MedSend Grant. This puts me one step closer toward leaving for Indonesia.

First, let me tell you a bit about MedSend. They were founded 20 years ago by a group of mission organizations and several individuals (many doctors and medical missionaries themselves) to address the decreasing number of medical missionaries. First they spent time trying to figure out why there were fewer doctors and nurses going to the mission field. They realized that many were graduating from school with large debts from their many years of school. They realized that while these young doctors and nurses were being required to pay back those debts first and by the time they had paid off the debts there were settled in the United States. The founders realized that many more would be able to go if there were an organization that would make the payments on those education loans after they graduated and while they were serving and so MedSend was founded.

Over the last 20 years MedSend has supported medical and veterinarian missionaries in over 80 countries around the world and at several clinics here in the United States. They do this by simply paying the monthly amount due on the educational loans of the grant recipients. This means having to raise less support and to leave more quickly for their area of service. For many years MedSend had more money than they had grant recipients. In the last five years however that trend has been reversed and they now have more applicants than funds.

MedSend will be helping to make the payments on my loans from grad school, which is a huge blessing and allows me to raise less support, which hopefully means I can leave sooner. A workshop led by one of their founders, Dan Fountain, was the reason I went to Florida two weeks ago. You can read more about that workshop and see pictures here on my other blog.

If you would like more information about MedSend you can click here to view their web page or in celebration of their 20th Birthday they put together this video.

As MedSend turns 20, we take a look back at the ways God has blessed this ministry with inspired leaders, faithful donors and committed grant recipients. We also reflect on the remarkable ways God is using MedSend grant recipients to bring transformative change in our world today.

(For those reading this in your email or RSS feeders you might need to click on the link to the blog to view the video.)