Blessing nations for 40 years.
Mission
Heal the hurting.
Our mission is to heal the hurting, build healthy communities, and transform lives. We accomplish this by equipping medical outreaches locally and globally, serving as a reliable source of pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and medical supplies for mission teams, clinics, and hospitals.
History
Beginnings and growth
In 1980, an early morning men’s prayer group at a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was planning a mission outreach to Guatemala. A member of that group, Harold Harder, a PhD pharmacologist and medical school professor, joined the team as its acting pharmacist after sensing a desire to minister to the physical and spiritual needs of Mayans. His role was to solicit donated medicines. At the time, Guatemala was in the midst of civil war. Despite the apparent danger, Harold and his wife, Linda, knew they had to be obedient to God.
After returning from the trip to Guatemala and after much prayer, the Harders were able to successfully obtain donated pharmaceuticals to help other teams going on similar short-term medical mission trips. In July of 1981, Blessings International was incorporated as a non-profit and opened its doors to a world in need of its service.
The ministry was originally created to serve as a source for donated and low-cost pharmaceuticals to mission trips. Today, Blessings International provides pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to clinics and hospitals in developing countries and to some in the United States. Blessings International has expanded its territory to work with churches, non-governmental organizations, universities, and medical institutions.
Today, Blessings International maintains a growing staff of over fifteen full-time employees and operates a 14,000-square-foot warehouse and repackaging facility, all for the sake of providing medicines and medical supplies to teams, clinics, and hospitals which are healing the hurting, building healthy communities, and transforming lives with the love of Christ.
Impact Statement
Blessings International has provided pharmaceuticals to thousands of traveling medical teams going to more than 140 different nations since the ministry was created in 1981. In recent years, we've shipped an average of 250,000 lbs of medicines a year.
In a typical year, Blessings equips upward of 3,000 teams traveling around the world. Among those teams equipped are those that are the first to arrive, assess, and bring care to victims of such events as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, famines, and even wars. Through the donations that Blessings receives, we are also able to help subsidize the medical costs for these emergency teams working in disaster zones as well as for teams working in indigent medical clinics in the USA.
Countless lives have been saved because of medicines that Blessings has made available at low or subsidized costs. Additionally, the medical personnel—including teams of doctors, nurses, dentists, and non-medically trained individuals, including clergy, volunteer, and professional aid workers—have carried to remote locales Blessings’ medicines and the love and good news of Christ.
Core Values
Our guiding principles
Our Beliefs
Our statement of faith