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".
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, 75
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 360 grants and
92 renewal 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
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Our Mission
"To develop funding to repay educational loans for healthcare workers as they
minister among the underserved at home and abroad. "
Project MedSend is a not-for-profit organization and is an
approved member of ECFA.
Approved Combined Federal Campaign Charity #12466 (MedSend)
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