Today, Medical Service Ministries (since 1992) is a trust organization that provides support via grants to Christian mission affiliated applicants who are looking to further their specializations in courses such as community health and tropical medicine.
[3] However, the increasing cost of running the school coupled with the demands brought on by qualifications required by many developing countries at this time caused MSM to close the school portion of the organization (1996) in order to become strictly a trust fund for funding applicants supported by Christian communities/organizations.
[3] During the 19th century, many missionaries sought to expand trade and spread the Christian gospel in the developing British colonies.
In the 1980s, students also came from Angola, the Netherlands, Indonesia, South America, Finland, India, Kenya, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Switzerland.
Often, the clinics and Mission hospitals in which MSM graduates worked formed the basic network for the development of healthcare in many countries.
The Dose states that the quantity of medicine used should be the smallest possible to affect a cure and should not be repeated as long as improvement lasts.
In 1925, the London Homeopathic Hospital found that it needed the study room it lent to MSM as a place for it to train its own nurses.
Leaders in the school assumed that lack of interest could be attributed to the implications of the word “missionary” in modern day culture.
In order to provide academically recognized qualifications, Medical Service Ministries found that it would have to merge with a university.
However, since class sizes were so small and the cost to run the school was only increasing, Medical Service Ministries decided to discontinue training in 1996.
As a result, with the work of the Administrator of Trust, Mrs. Glennis Powling, Medical Service Ministries was able to make its financial resources available to fund applicants traveling elsewhere.
One example of a trust fund applicant success story can be found in Tamara Filmer, a missionary working in rural, undeveloped Nepal.
In December 2012, I travelled from the mid-west of Nepal to India’s capital, Delhi, to attend a two-week course entitled “International Procurement and Supply Chain Management”.
On our missionary living allowance, it just wouldn't have been possible to afford the course, so I am grateful for this opportunity.” The current mission statement of Medical Service Ministries is as follows: “To encourage full-time Christian workers in the UK and elsewhere to prepare for Personal and Community Healthcare work in the developing world, in association with Christian organizations, and to witness to their faith in obedience to Christ’s command to preach and heal.
Funding is available for approved healthcare candidates.” Recently retired treasurer, Brian Weller, shows that this mission statement is alive in the everyday actions of MSM and its leadership when he states:[6] “It is my belief that overseas Christian service in response to Our Lord’s commission to preach and heal calls for continued effort and support, and will not lack His supply as we rise to the challenge.