Medical Missions Response (MMR) is a network of health care workers bound together by their
commitment to obey Christ's
Great Commission.
Using their professional skills, these individuals,
from many different agencies and fellowships, endeavor to cross all barriers that all peoples of
the earth may hear the Gospel.
We envision
church planting movements
among all peoples of the earth; i.e. the completion of the Great
Commission.
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Founded by Missionaries
MMR was founded by two doctors who have committed their lives to the Great Commission.
They have each served many years (over 40 years combined experience) and continue to serve
as missionaries in
the 10/40 Window.
As missionary doctors they have a unique appreciation for the needs of missionaries working on
the mission field in the 10/40 Window and how those needs can be met by medical professionals
who volunteer for short-term medical projects.

The Problem - Long-term Access
There are 59 countries at least partially within the 10/40 Window, and most of these
countries are
closed
to the Gospel message. Closed countries do not issue visas
to traditional missionaries to live or travel within their borders. In order for missionaries
to gain long-term, sustained access to live and work among these
unreached people,
they must employ
creative access
methods, or non-traditional
means, to enter and reside in these closed countries.
The Solution - Medical Missions
At MMR we believe medical missions provide the most universally accepted
access to these closed countries. Medical workers are typically permitted access
anywhere when they are using their talents and skills to meet human needs. Since only medicine
provides such universal access to otherwise closed countries, we believe it is essential
that medical volunteers be concentrated in the parts of the world where they are most desperately
needed: the 10/40 Window.
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Our Response - MMR
MMR does not initiate medical mission projects. Instead, we respond to project requests
that come from missionaries living and working
in the Last Frontier. Of course, these individuals are not able to call themselves
missionaries where they are working, but, nonetheless,
they serve in that capacity. Every medical mission project to which MMR responds is connected
to the overall mission's strategy of making
disciples among all the nations, forming those disciples into churches, and training those
churches to be self-replicating. Self-sustained,
indigenous church planting movements are our ultimate objective. [ read more ]