World Concern

Specialties

World Concern is a Christian global relief and development organization. With our supporters, our faith compels us to extend life-​saving help and opportunity to people facing the most profound human challenges of extreme poverty. At World Concern, the solutions we offer, the work we do – with your help – creates lasting, sustainable change. Lasting change that provides lasting hope.

Our areas of expertise include disaster response, clean water, education, food security, child protection, microfinance and health.

History

Established in 1955.

In 1955, physician Wilbert Saunders and pharmacist Jim McCoy founded Medicines for Missions, the precursor to World Concern, and began supplying medicines to clinics and hospitals overseas. In 1970 Medicine for Missions officially joined the CRISTA family of ministries and became World Concern.

Over the past three decades, World Concern has continued to provide excellent service to the world’s poor through partner organizations and through our own projects. Often in some of the most dangerous places in the world, where suffering and disease are at their worst, World Concern continues to bring relief and hope to the desperate.