Medical Missions: Project MedSend
Global Frontier Missions has recently joined forces with Project MedSend to help medical professionals get to the mission field more quickly. They will help pay off school bills while nurses, doctors, dentists, etc. are actually doing mission work.
Project MedSend offers student loan repayment grants to healthcare professionals who are headed for career medical missions service under the authority of a recognized missions sending agency -- a MedSend "Associate" such as Global Frontier Missions . We also develop funding to repay educational loans for healthcare workers as they minister among the underserved at home and abroad. Project MedSend offers financial counsel to help keep educational borrowing to a minimum.
Project MedSend was formed at the request of the missionary members of the House of Delegates of Christian Medical & Dental Associations . Many were having difficulty recruiting replacements and coworkers because of the high cost of health care education. The resulting student loans were preventing or delaying prospective missionaries from reaching their fields of service.
A 1990-1991 survey revealed that 33 mission agencies had 30 mission hospitals and clinics without a single health professional to minister to the sick and dying arriving at their doors. This represented a waste of mission resources and many lost opportunities to communicate the love of Christ. Mission boards, meanwhile, had 49 doctors ready for service who were merely working to pay off their loans. The agencies' list for personnel for immediate placement included 542 nurses, physicians, dentists and technologists.
Project MedSend initially was joined by 16 mission boards and agencies in developing a strategy to overcome the educational debt barrier as it affected missions personnel needs. These mission boards set the policies and programs that would effect the desired solution freeing health care professionals to careers in missions by paying their student loans while they serve. Currently, 64 mission boards have joined as Associate members of the project. Project MedSend was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and has raised sufficient funds to publicize its existence, implement its program and make over 278 grants to date. See the map of where grant recipients are serving.
The original goal of Project MedSend was to make and sustain annual grants to 32 health professionals by the year 2000. This goal was exceeded in early 1997. Project MedSend strives to be a diligent steward of the funds entrusted to it and aims to keep its spending for fund-raising and administration costs to under 20% of its budget.
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