Methodology

At MMR we believe medical missions provide the most universally accepted access to closed and restricted access 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.

Missionary-driven projects

At MMR we believe that short-term volunteers must be plugged into the strategies of the long-term missionaries living and working among an unreached people group. For this reason MMR neither generates projects nor responds to volunteer-initiated projects. All projects that MMR responds to must be part of a strategy by a long-term missionary to start a church planting movement among an unreached people group.

MMR works closely with active missionaries living among and working with unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window. MMR guides the missionaries in the strategic use of medical projects to advance their work. However, MMR does not generate projects. The local missionaries design projects around their particular strategies, location, and people group, and then MMR responds by recruiting volunteers to fulfill these requests.

Project screening

Before responding to a need from the mission field, MMR reviews each project to ensure it meets several criteria. Each project must:

• Be targeted in the 10/40 Window
• Come from a missionary living or working long-term among an unreached people group
• Be part of a strategy to start a church planting movement (CPM) among a people group
• Have a plan for local follow-up after the short-term volunteers are gone