Rick Allen was raised in an Irish-Catholic family, but he made his profession of faith some time after graduating college. From there, his journey of faith and his career path progressed side-by-side. Over time, Rick went from stacking chairs to pastoring a church plant, and from software salesman to CEO of a development company. Then with his ministry experience and leadership skills, Rick transitioned to become president and CEO of MedSend, an organization that has mobilized over 750 Christ-following, disciple-making healthcare professionals into 103 nations.

MedSend doesn’t just send doctors overseas, it helps train native physicians to care and witness within their own communities. Under Rick’s leadership, MedSend’s National Scholars Pathway is equipping African, Asian, and Middle Eastern doctors with advanced medical and biblical training so that they can heal physically and introduce people to Jesus right where they live. Rick is passionate about seeing nations transformed with the love of God through well-equipped, Christ-following medical professionals. Millions of lives have already been touched, and MedSend has a vision to reach millions more with fully equipped Christ-centered hospital systems and networks. If you want to learn how faith, medicine, and missions can fuse in sustainable ways, this episode is for you.

Major Topics Include:

• Learning to trust God when you can’t see what’s ahead
• The desperate need for well-trained health care professionals globally
• Raising up medical professionals to minister to their own people
• ROI of investing in a national missionary physician
• Training medical professionals to share the gospel and disciple others
• Extending impact through partnership
• Helping medical missionaries care for themselves through the longevity program
• MedSend’s long-term goal to transform nations through hospital systems and networks

• “And I knew immediately that I wasn’t trusting God.”
• “What does it look like for a Christ-following man to trust and surrender?”
• “I got to see God at work across the table and across the world, and it transformed my understanding of who God is.”
• “If you approach God with an open mind and and open heart and say, ‘if you’re real, show me,’ God will show up every time.”
• “These individuals are taking the love of Christ and a vision for compassionate care into their own healthcare systems and transforming them in the love of Christ.”
• “We anticipate that an individual physician will touch about 100,000 lives during their career. So we’re training up people that will bless and share the knowledge of Christ with 100,000 people in a lifetime. That level of investment pays off over decades.”
• “This is not about building healthcare capacity. This is about building Christ-followers who see healthcare as a means to share the love of Jesus Christ.”

• MedSend
• Institute of Global Healthcare Missions
• Christian Medical & Dental Associations
• Samaritan’s Purse
• ROI Ministry (see our interview with founder, Tim Barker)
• The Finish Line Community Facebook Group
• The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group

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Jessica Ullrich grew up watching her parents live open-handedly, their home and resources always available for God’s purposes. Those early lessons in faith and giving deepened during her college years on the mission field, where she saw how generosity could open doors for the Gospel in ways words alone could not. Though she began her career in social work, Jessica soon felt God redirecting her toward the place where ministry and organizational leadership meet, preparing her to guide others in generosity from a broader perspective.

Now, as Director of Programs with Generous Church, Jessica helps disciple-making networks around the world integrate generosity into their core training. Drawing on her cross-cultural experience and administrative insight, she equips leaders to tell stories of giving that fit their people’s rhythms and languages. Her work has sparked movements where generosity becomes both a testimony and a tool for transformation.

Jessica’s journey offers grounded insight for those discerning how to lead others in generosity that reflects God’s heart and multiplies Kingdom impact.

Major Topics Include:

• How Stations of Generosity works for oratory cultures
• Similarities and differences between Stations and Generosity Design Lab
• Identifying people groups that would be a right fit for Stations
• Memorable stories of positive impact in the Field
• Salvations through simple generosity
• The challenge of generosity discipleship across cultures
• The necessity of prayer in the generosity movement
• An invitation to simple generosity

• “The networks we get to serve and connect with are heroes in discipleship in the field.”
• “Our metric is getting networks to the place of empowerment. If our logo, name, and involvement can be completely stripped away, then that is our highest success.”
• “We lean on the networks that we partner with as the experts of their context so that we don’t have to pretend to be.”
• “Even with all the regional nuances and complexities, truth sets people free.”
• “Prayer is the most significant fuel of the generosity movement.”
• “As long as we have something to eat every day, we have something to give to God every day.”

• Generous Church (see our interview with founder Patrick Johnson)
• Stations of Generosity
• Generosity Design Lab
• The Finish Line Community Facebook Group
• The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group

Matthew 6:33 | Kingdom First

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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Raised in Los Angeles by Korean immigrant parents, Jean Park spent years chasing the markers of success her family valued, only to find herself empty in the process. When she encountered Christ, God redirected her ambitions toward the deeper work of healing and restoration. Leaving corporate America for the field of psychology, Jean discovered a calling that wove together her gifts, story, and faith into an integrated purpose rooted in generosity and grace.

Now a therapist, coach, and co-founder of the Abide Gathering, Jean helps others—especially within Asian communities—experience freedom from generational patterns that keep them striving instead of giving. Through her work, she shows how inner healing can open hearts to live generously, not from duty but from wholeness, and how alignment with God’s design brings peace, clarity, and joy in stewardship.

This conversation offers clear, hope-filled guidance for those seeking to live and give from a place of healed purpose and wholehearted trust.

Major Topics Include:

• Gaining perspective on your purpose
• Letting your life story speak to your calling
• Discerning when to persevere and when to pivot
• Jean’s healing journey
• Perspective through healing invisible wounds
• The gift of being triggered
• How generosity facilitates healing
• The long game of heart transformation
• Tips for discovering your integrated purpose

• “I felt the Holy Spirit say to me, ‘You need to wake up!’”
• “God wastes nothing.”
• “Are you running from something or towards something?”
• “Oftentimes, our wounds are things we can’t see, and we don’t know how much they are hindering the flow of what God wants to do in and through us.”
• “If we are invited to face these wounds, I believe it’s a gift from God, pointing us to things that have been keeping us stuck.”
• “When we heal our wounds, then we are able to freely live into the flow and the way that God has created us to live.”
• “The thing about heart transformation is that God is in the long game. He is not in the ‘quick behavior transformation’ game, and that’s the beauty and kindness of who He is.”

• Julie Wilson, President of Women Doing Well (see our past interview here)
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
• Secure Coaching
• Abide Gathering
• Young Life Global Cities
• We Want More
• The Finish Line Community Facebook Group
• The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group

Matt 6:19-21 | Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Psalm 139 | Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart

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