Medical Missionary News Containers (MMN) was created by a group of Christian Doctors in the UK in 1922 who had a concern for their medical colleagues involved in missionary work overseas. In 1934 they began to publish a quarterly magazine that carried reports from the mission field and also gave information by which their missionary colleagues could be informed about progress in their profession. In 1947 a MMN fund was established to be used for the purchase and maintenance of equipment and facilities for the relief of disease, sickness and suffering in association with the preaching of the Christian gospel overseas. Over the years news of the work of MMN spread so that by 1980 consignments of up to five tons of drugs were being dispatched by air. In 1982 MMN became aware of the advantage of container shipping and in that year two 20ft container loads were sent to Africa.  Since then the work has continued to grow so that by the year 2003 sixty-five containers were sent overseas to seven different countries. Various goods and provisions are now included in addition to medical aids and medicines, some of which are donated by individuals, churches and other corporate institutions. MMN are particularly grateful to the many ladies sewing groups around the country who make and donate blankets, clothing and other knitted goods. Other goods are purchased by MMN themselves. The Warehouse in Wickford, Essex is staffed by four full time workers and also benefits from the support of volunteers who help with the collection of goods, the packing of boxes, secretarial work, accounts and the supervision and checking of medical items and medicines. MMN still continues to distribute hundreds of copies of the magazine to individuals and churches today. If you would like to receive a copy free of charge then please click here to submit your request. 
Why I am going abroad as a
Medical Missionary.
By Dr. ROGER BROWN - Peru. (From an article written in 1936) Having been asked to write an article on the above subject, after some thought, I can only find one real reason for undertaking 
A bad case of Nodular Leprosy
medical missionary work and that is a personal call from God to work for Him abroad. The need may be great, the opportunities present, the circumstances favourable, but one does not feel that these factors constitute a reason for going abroad unless they are strengthened and confirmed by a commission from God Himself. He must be the author and the finisher of our call to go.
Having established this, however, there are several reasons which confirm one's decision to continue with the medical side. One has been tempted to fall in with the suggestion that one would be more free in being occupied solely with evangelical work, and that as, after all, the main object of one's work is the winning of souls, that the healing of the sick is of very secondary importance. I have found, however, from experience in England that the medical key will open many a closed door. Access to households otherwise closed to the Gospel is often obtained in sickness, and under the stress of disease, many an oyster-like heart will open in confession and unburdening. The contacts that one hopes will be obtained in like manner on the mission field will constitute a valuable asset in spiritual work. One hopes also that co-operation with other missionaries will be possible and that evangelists and teachers will be able to enter through the doors opened by medical work. Luke, the physician, followed Paul, the apostle, to the end and perhaps by his ministrations was able sometimes to mitigate the "thorn in the flesh"; what a privilege to be of like personal service to one's brethren and also perhaps to aid them in their attacks on the strongholds of Satan. The most potent reason of all is perhaps the Lord's command to heal the sick and preach the gospel. When He saw the sick, He was moved with compassion and is not His heart the same to-day? The healing work of doctors, nurses, hospital attendants and lay workers (who often perform valuable medical work) forms an easily understood expression of God's love for the heathen peoples. Indeed, in the presence of suffering, the missionary, if he is in touch with his Lord, must do what he can to alleviate it. What wonderful illustrations, too, of the Gospel are formed by works of healing. How simple and easily understood is, say, the removal of an offending member or the healing of a sore. One hopes thus that the healing of the sick, under His good hand and the preaching of the Gospel will proceed side by side to the glory of His Name.
Christians working with the Developing World
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