Frontline Priorities

In parts of Central Asia, many families have lost their only source of income, and widows and their children are often left without the means to survive from one day to the next. Local believers are responding with generosity. Each month, they deliver food parcels of rice, lentils, flour, oil, sugar, and other staples to ten of the neediest families in their community, enough to feed each family for a month. As they meet physical needs, they listen, pray, and share the hope of Christ in word and deed. Your investment provides 120 food parcels over one year, reaching approximately 1,200 people.

In parts of Central Asia, displacement and economic hardship have left many families without work, and women face the steepest barriers, with very few options to work in public. A small team of local believers has opened a sewing school that gives women a safe place to learn a trade, make clothing they can sell, and study English. As friendships grow, conversations turn to the hope found in Jesus. Your investment keeps the school open for a full year, serving 25 students.

In parts of Central Asia, following Jesus means meeting in secret and counting the cost every day. Yet the church endures, led by local believers who disciple new followers, gather in small fellowships, and carry the gospel to their neighbors in both word and deed. This Frontline Priority provides ongoing support for a trusted frontline partner who strengthens and equips the underground church. Your investment fuels the daily work of discipleship, care, and outreach where the gospel is least known.

Across Northern Africa, many people groups still have little or no access to the gospel. Local believers who share their language, culture, and way of life are ready to go. This Frontline Priority helps equip and send indigenous missionaries into unreached people groups across the region, supporting their training, travel, and basic needs as they share the gospel and make disciples. Your investment helps carry the good news to people who have never heard it, through those best positioned to bring it.

In South Asia, God is raising up local believers who are ready to plant churches, make disciples, and share the gospel in communities that have never heard it. This Frontline Priority fuels new relationships with emerging local partners in the region, so that when a faithful leader steps forward, resources are ready to help the work take root. Your investment strengthens church planting, discipleship, evangelism, and other frontline initiatives led by believers who know their neighbors best.

In South Asia, a small but growing community of believers lives among a people group that has never had a book of the Bible in its own language. Most are oral learners, and the Bible stories they have already heard have stirred a hunger for more. A local translation team is ready to begin the Gospel of Luke in written, audio, and illustrated form, so the story of Jesus can speak directly to hearts whether or not a listener can read. Your investment helps launch this work and lays a firm foundation for growing house fellowships.

For many people in the Middle East, Scripture is not yet fully available in the language they speak at home and pray in. Local believers are working to complete the New Testament in the heart language of one such people group, so that families can read the words of Jesus in the language they understand most deeply. Your investment helps carry this work to completion, so that God's Word is available to a people who have never had the full New Testament in their own language.

Every lasting partnership begins with listening. Before a new partnership is formed, our team meets local leaders in person in frontier regions where the gospel has not yet taken root. Together we hear their vision, pray, and walk through a careful review of their ministry, leadership, and financial stewardship. Your investment fuels the visits, assessments, and follow-up that make trusted, long-term partnerships possible among the unreached.

Local believers serving in hostile regions carry real risk, and so does every message, file, and payment connected to their work. Keeping them safe depends on both sides of the partnership. This Frontline Priority builds and strengthens the secure systems we use to coordinate with partners and protect their information, and it equips partners and their teams with protected devices, secure communication, and training to make wise decisions under pressure. Your investment helps guard the people God is using to reach the unreached, and the work they have given their lives to.

When conflict or disaster strikes, local believers are often the ones who stay. They open their homes, share what they have, and carry the hope of Christ to neighbors who have lost everything. The Crisis Response Fund makes it possible to stand with them quickly, providing food, water, shelter, medical care, and other practical relief through local believers who are already present. Your investment helps frontline partners meet urgent needs in a way that points people to Jesus.

In many regions where the gospel is least known, following Jesus can cost a believer their job, their home, their freedom, or their family's safety. The Persecuted Believers Fund provides practical care for local believers and their families when persecution strikes, including things like legal aid, relocation, medical support, and basic needs. Your investment reminds them that they do not stand alone, and helps them remain faithful where their witness matters most.