ABOUT

alaska medical missions

 Our Mission

Motivated by the love of Christ, Alaska Medical Missions provides medical resources and professional support to communities in need around the world.

our values

COMPASSION

INTEGRITY

SERVICE

STEWARDSHIP

What We Do

Alaska Medical Missions builds better healthcare all over the world by partnering with organizations doing incredible work with real people. By collecting surplus and fully functional medical supplies from across Alaska, AMM reduces medical waste while providing care to those in need.

Our Method

Alaska Medical Missions receives donations of fully functioning, medical supplies and equipment from a number of sources including hospitals, manufacturers, private medical facilities, and individuals. Volunteers and staff collect the inventory staging donated items in a warehouse facility. Afterwards, the supplies are distributed by individuals, groups, and organizations to communities in need around the world.

Since 1999, Alaska Medical Missions has sent over 1,000 shipments of medical supplies and humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries totaling over $15,000,000 worth of equipment. AMM builds better healthcare around the world by serving with others, preventing illness, and saving lives through the power of Christ as we share our abundance with those in need. Alaska Medical Missions is helping bring aid to the nations.

 Our History

Mid 1990’s

Brian Green of Christian Health Associates and the staff of Cornerstone Clinic recognized the need for a building site that would prepare surplus medical supplies for shipment to developing countries.

  • They started storing supplies in the basement of Cornerstone Clinic and in private garages. Paul Gionet, a pharmacist and board member of Beyond Borders, was doing the same thing – storing medical supplies in an airplane hangar in Soldotna.

    Both organizations saw a resource surplus of medical supplies in the USA and an overwhelming need for these items in developing countries. They wanted to connect the resource with the need to help people in dire situations - like providing a mother with the medicine her sick child needed, supplying sterile gloves to a clinic that was forced to clean and recycle its medical supplies, and delivering essential tools to prevent disease.

1999

Beyond Borders and Christian Health Associates participated in a project sponsored by the mayor of Anchorage to send food boxes to the Russian Far East. The two groups started talking about the possibility of having a staging area for humanitarian aid in Anchorage. As a result, Alaska Medical Missions was formed.

  • Alaska Medical Missions was formed to consolidate the medical supplies stored by Christian Health Associates, Beyond Borders, and Samaritan’s Purse in a vacant power plant located in Ship Creek, Alaska. AMM stored everything in temporary, donated space as it became available. Ultimately, everything from the power plant was moved to an indoor soccer field, then to a rope warehouse, and yet once again to another temporary warehouse. During this period of early development, AMM sent out medical supplies with travelers bound for developing countries. Some of the early shipments of supplies went to the Russian Far East while that area was recovering from the collapse of the Russian economy. Supplies delivered to Swaziland, Africa arrived in time to be used during a crisis in Mozambique due to severe flooding.

early 2000’s

AMM began collecting pledges from doctors in Alaska for monthly support of a permanent staging area in Anchorage. Approximately 25 doctors pledged to support Alaska Medical Missions at $50 per month for three years. In June 2000, AMM moved into its own warehouse location. The pledges from the doctors were critical in obtaining this staging area. The AMM “warehouse” became a reality.

  • By March of 2001, shipments of medical supplies had gone from AMM to Kosovo, Tibet, Russia, Mexico, Vietnam, Peru, Mongolia, Swaziland, Kenya, Burma, Fiji, Belize, Philippines, China, Mozambique and Guatemala. At the end of 2011, AMM had sent more than 900 shipments of medical supplies to more than 80 countries!

2019 -now

To date, Alaska Medical Missions has sent over 1,000 shipments of medical supplies and other humanitarian aid to more than 100 countries all over the world totaling more than $15,000,000 worth of aid. AMM has accomplished this through the power of Christ by serving WITH others to bring aid to the nations.

Alaska Medical Missions is an associate organization of Christian Health Associates
whose 501(c)(3) tax ID is #92-0152088

Meet Our Team

Board of Directors

AMM HAS SEVERAL EVENTS COMING UP THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN US!

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