About MMR

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. [ read more ]

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. [ read more ]

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 ]