Compassionate Love: How God is Blessing a Hurting World

by Rick Allen

Let’s be honest. It can feel like the world is in a downward spiral. Bad news, division, and negativity can leave you feeling hopeless. Worse still, it can make you wonder if God even notices or cares.

In Compassionate Love, Rick Allen answers the Does God care? with a resounding yes, and he proves it through multiple compelling stories of medical professionals serving in under-resourced locations around the world. These are stories of health, healing, and hope that will uplift, inspire, and open your eyes to God’s blessing. Get ready

Be inspired—the world may be broken, but there are sparks of light everywhere.Be informed—discover how medical workers can gain access to places others cannot.Be awed—by stories of sacrifice, courage, generosity, and surrender.Be transformed—as you feel your faith deepen and your hope lift.Be challenged—as you reimagine your own mission and change the world.
This book is about stories—theirs and yours. It will challenge you to open your heart to compassion, love more deeply, let God work through you, and in your own unique way—change the world.

185 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 11, 2024

Reviews

[Kelly Scheuring · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compassionate Love: How God is Blessing a Hurting World is an inspiring, hope-filled book written with a highly accessible and relatable style. If you've read real-life accounts of missionaries before and ended up feeling like you couldn't possibly do what they did or live as they lived, give this book a try. Compassionate Love profiles US-trained healthcare missionaries and national doctors in Africa and Asia who serve in their own communities, yet I found myself connecting with their struggles, their insecurities, and their perseverance. Instead of glorifying those being profiled, Compassionate Love succeeds in convincing you that these are ordinary people who through tiny steps of obedience to a calling on their lives, ended up part of something bigger than themselves. It challenges you to reflect and consider how you can take that first small step toward showing compassion to those right in front of you.

[Diane Bowerman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is truly inspiring with its "true to life" accounts of ordinary individuals that love Jesus who have allowed our extraordinary God to use them in amazing, and even miraculous, ways through the vehicle of healthcare missions. The poignant stories reveal how God uses His people, whose hearts are aligned with His, to impact the lives of the broken, desperate and hurting in our world to bring compassionate care in Christ's name and hope for each new day.

You will be touched and challenged as you read this book and gain a glimpse at the faithfulness of God as reflected in so many incredible ways. There is no doubt that God is drawing people to Himself through these servants, even in the hardest and darkest places in the world. May the Lord bless each one whose story is featured in this book and so many others that MedSend is supporting whose stories are yet to be told!