Project MedSend Student Loan Repayment Grants:

Project MedSend offers grants to repay student loans owed by healthcare professionals while they serve as medical missionaries in medically underserved areas of the world. Grant Applicants must (1) be under the authority of a collaborating sending agency (an "Associate"); (2) be within 18 months of leaving for career medical missions service; (3) show fiscal responsibility and stewardship maturity; (4) be in the process of paying off their student loans as soon as earning begins (internship, residency, practice). For additional requirements, contact us.

Grant applications are considered three times a year. Upon approval of a grant, MedSend calculates the amount necessary to make the monthly student loan payments for a four-year term, and then raises the entire four-year amount in order for the grant to be considered "funded." Project MedSend takes over payment of student loans when the grant is funded and the Grant Recipient goes "on salary" with his or her sending agency. This is usually one month prior to departure for the field. Project MedSend will begin making student loan payments for approved, funded Grant Recipients only when loan payments are current and there are no delinquencies. Payments on student loans are made in increments as the Grant Recipient is serving. If a Grant Recipient were to return from the field prematurely, he or she would resume responsibility for making the student loan payments.

Project MedSend Financial Counsel:

Project MedSend has an increasing number of potential grant recipients at some stage in the inquiry/application process. A significant part of MedSend’s activities is to counsel these inquirers on lifestyle and spending issues, as taught in Scripture, that will minimize borrowing so that educational debt is kept to manageable levels and will not limit future choices for service. Reduced borrowing also stretches donated dollars by allowing for funds to be allocated to a greater number of Project MedSend grants. Those who have applied MedSend’s financial counsel have been able to reduce their borrowing by up to 40% (visit our Video and Workbook section to download  MedSend's Edition of "Master Your Money").

Project MedSend Fundraising:

Project MedSend develops funding to repay educational loans for healthcare workers as they minister among the underserved. Project MedSend is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt charitable organization, and receives more than 50% of its support from private individuals. General appeals for funds are made only twice a year. Dollars spent on fundraising and administration are always kept to the absolute minimum in order to direct funds toward the intended purposes of the MedSend ministry. See some of the many testimonies we have received over the years describing the gratefulness of our grant recipients and the impact the MedSend funds have had on their ministry allowing them to get to the fields that are “ripe for harvest” years earlier.

Project MedSend hosts informational events around the country to let interested people know about MedSend’s work and needs. No solicitation is made at these dinners, although attendees often respond to what they hear by supporting MedSend financially. If you are interested in the schedule of upcoming information events, please contact us.

Project MedSend keeps its supporters up-to-date on its activities through a quarterly newsletter. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter by regular mail, please contact us.


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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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