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Surrendered Heart: How God’s Calling Shapes Relationships

by Rick Allen

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SAYING YES TO GOD RESHAPES YOUR CLOSEST RELATIONSHIPS?

In Surrendered Heart, MedSend CEO Rick Allen weaves his own experiences as a pastor with the powerful true stories of healthcare missionaries serving all over the world who have discovered that God’s call is both personal and relational.

If you’ve ever wrestled with how to balance obedience to God with love for your spouse, children, or team, you’ll find both challenge and hope in these pages. From marriages stretched thin, families in crisis, and teams divided by culture to the personal struggles of walking with God, each story reveals both the cost of obedience and the grace of surrender. Here you’ll learn to:

  • Trust God when your calling collides with your family’s needs
  • Surrender to strengthen rather than diminish your mission
  • Prepare for the relational cost of serving on the mission field
  • Rest in God’s redemption

Whether you’re preparing for the mission field, supporting those who are serving, or seeking to understand God’s call in your own relationships, this book offers both truth and encouragement. It will remind you that even in seasons of loss, conflict, or doubt, God is near and His grace is more than enough.

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Rick Allen

Rick brings diverse experience to his role as an author. After spending 25 years as a software industry executive and pastoring a non-denominational church in Stamford, CT for 8 years, Rick has been innovating global healthcare missions strategies with MedSend since 2008. Rick has become an expert in low-resource global healthcare delivery. He has traveled extensively throughout the world, encountering healthcare delivery in some of the lowest-resourced places. The global disparity in healthcare access and the suffering it causes have driven him to seek ways to bless the nations with faith-based, compassionate healthcare. As a pastor, Rick saw God’s transforming power as people came to understand how much their creator loves them; As CEO of MedSend, he has seen the love of God displayed and delivered by those called to bring compassionate healthcare to a hurting world. He firmly believes each of us is called to change the world—sometimes around the block, sometimes across an ocean.

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