Your Support Brings Light into the Darkness
Around the world, people are hearing the gospel for the first time, finding hope in the darkest places, and discovering that
Jesus changes everything.
This season, we invite you to be part of that movement, through five phases that need your support. These opportunities address direct, material and spiritual needs, and every gift, at any level, makes a difference.
Explore the journey below and give where your heart leads.
Your support brings light into the darkness
Around the world, people are hearing the gospel for the first time, finding hope in the darkest places, and discovering that Jesus changes everything.
This season, we invite you to be part of that movement, through five phases that need your support. These opportunities address direct, material and spiritual needs, and every gift, at any level, makes a difference.
Explore the journey below and give where your heart leads.
Every missionary who goes has someone who sends. Your giving helps provide the preparation, training, partnerships, and care that sustain ministry among the unreached.
Planting churches takes time. It means learning languages, building trust, sharing the Gospel, and equipping local believers to lead. Your generosity helps sustain this work so churches can take root and multiply.
By God’s grace, this shared commitment to sending well and serving well has helped bear fruit:
- 229 new churches planted in the last 5 years
- 79 people groups engaged, many hearing the Gospel for the first time
- 1,330+ national leaders trained and equipped to lead and multiply
Behind these numbers are people encountering Jesus and sharing His good news. Yet many communities still have little opportunity to hear.
So, how does the good news actually reach those who have yet to hear?
How does a church get planted?
How, exactly,
is the gospel sent?
Explore below for a glimpse on how churches take root—and how your generosity can help.
Explore below for a glimpse on how churches take root—and how your generosity can help.
PHASE 1 – Invitation
PHASE 1 – Invitation
A spirit-led starting point to consider
Sending the gospel is not random; it begins with an
invitation. This invitation can come in various forms, but it is always connected to people and places that are tuned in to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
An invitation may come from an existing missionary in the field who has seen further opportunities to bring the Gospel to new communities. It can also come from a local church partner, indigenous Christian leaders who see the need and potential for sharing the gospel but need assistance to do so.
Your generosity helps SEND explore opportunities alongside local churches and ministry partners.
$50 helps provide tools and resources missionaries need to prepare and serve well.
A spirit-led starting point to consider
Sending the gospel is not random; it begins with an invitation. This invitation can come in various forms, but it is always connected to people and places that are tuned in to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
An invitation may come from an existing missionary in the field who has seen further opportunities to bring the Gospel to new communities. It can also come from a local church partner, indigenous Christian leaders who see the need and potential for sharing the gospel but need assistance to do so.
Your generosity helps SEND explore opportunities alongside local churches and ministry partners.
$50 helps provide tools and resources missionaries need to prepare and serve well.
Faith Lived Out:
Our partnership with The Kaifa Group is a wonderful example of this. The Kaifa Group is an incubator of partnerships extending into Sri Lanka, Myanmar, India, and Nepal.
They focus on using education and other locally-led initiatives as a platform for church planting. Kaifa invited SEND to join them in expanding their reach across South Asia. This approach aligns strongly with SEND's belief in coming alongside local believers and helping them establish reproducing churches.
PHASE 1 – Invitation
PHASE 2 – Listening
A time of consideration
and contemplation
The first response to an invitation is to listen. Not every invitation is responded to in the same way, so this phase of listening allows us to hear from what others are doing, how the Spirit is calling, and to discern how we should respond. Together with our partners who pray, support, and provide wisdom, we ask ourselves questions like:
What vision is God giving us for this new place?
What is leadership saying and are we aligned?
What is our part to play in what God is doing?
Your generosity
creates space for prayerful discernment and partnership before SEND enters a new community.
$100 helps start a discovery bible study
A spirit-led starting point to consider
Sending the gospel is not random; it begins with an
invitation. This invitation can come in various forms, but it is always connected to people and places that are tuned in to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
An invitation may come from an existing missionary in the field who has seen further opportunities to bring the Gospel to new communities. It can also come from a local church partner, indigenous Christian leaders who see the need and potential for sharing the gospel but need assistance to do so.
Your generosity helps SEND explore opportunities alongside local churches and ministry partners.
$50
helps provide tools and resources missionaries need to prepare and serve well.
Faith Lived Out:
Our partnership with The Kaifa Group is a wonderful example of this. The Kaifa Group is an incubator of partnerships extending into Sri Lanka, Myanmar, India, and Nepal.
They focus on using education and other locally-led initiatives as a platform for church planting. Kaifa invited SEND to join them in expanding their reach across South Asia. This approach aligns strongly with SEND's belief in coming alongside local believers and helping them establish reproducing churches.
PHASE 1 – Invitation
PHASE 3 – Learning
Knowledge and insights
that inform strategy
After listening, if we feel affirmed that we should continue exploring the opportunity, we'll move on to
learning.
Learning about a potential new opportunity for church planting involves vision trips, visiting partners, understanding local contexts and needs including the values of the culture.
The knowledge and insights from this stage not only help us understand the community but also inform how we equip the missionaries who are being sent to this place.
Your generosity helps missionaries understand language, culture and barriers to the gospel.
$250 helps train and equip local leaders for near-culture evangelism.
A spirit-led starting point to consider
Sending the gospel is not random; it begins with an
invitation. This invitation can come in various forms, but it is always connected to people and places that are tuned in to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
An invitation may come from an existing missionary in the field who has seen further opportunities to bring the Gospel to new communities. It can also come from a local church partner, indigenous Christian leaders who see the need and potential for sharing the gospel but need assistance to do so.
Your generosity helps SEND explore opportunities alongside local churches and ministry partners.
$50
helps provide tools and resources missionaries need to prepare and serve well.
Faith Lived Out:
One of our teams discovered that there was an area of 10 million unreached people that no one had engaged with the Gospel. The exercise of learning began with the "near culture." There may be a Christian presence within the nation, just not in that region. A church in Northern Taiwan, for example, is much more likely to be able to teach us about how to reach people in South Taiwan than a church in New York City.
PHASE 2 – Listening
A time of consideration and contemplation
The first response to an invitation is to listen.
Not every invitation is responded to in the same way, so this phase of listening allows us to hear from what others are doing, how the Spirit is calling, and to discern how we should respond. Together with our partners who pray, support, and provide wisdom, we ask ourselves questions like:
What vision is God giving us for this new place?
What is leadership saying and are we aligned?
What is our part to play in what God is doing?
Your generosity creates space for prayerful discernment and partnership before SEND enters a new community.
$100 helps start a Discovery Bible Study.
FAITH LIVED OUT:
Mark and Rebecca had a passion to serve in Vietnam when joining SEND, but at that time no field was yet established. A new field has now been created because of their work and not simply because we said yes.
SEND spent a season of time in prayer and discerning God’s will for our place in Vietnam. After this season, leadership within SEND gathered around the decision to open this new field and confirmed it. Throughout any season of discernment, SEND maintains that whatever we decide must align with our mission and values.
PHASE 1 – Invitation
PHASE 4 – Strategy
SEND'S ROLE AND INVOLVEMENT
We want to honor and respect those we aim to serve, engaging them in a way that demonstrates the gospel while being locally relevant. Only in this fourth phase, do we now determine a strategy of engagement.
What will this field be in the context of the other ministry areas within SEND? Could it be a hub that then leads to other places?
Are the opportunities fit for short, mid,
or long-term engagement?
Who should lead the team and who will we partner with?
Your generosity
helps SEND develop culturally appropriate approaches alongside local believers.
$500 helps equip and coach missionaries preparing to serve among unreached communities.
A spirit-led starting point to consider
Sending the gospel is not random; it begins with an
invitation. This invitation can come in various forms, but it is always connected to people and places that are tuned in to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
An invitation may come from an existing missionary in the field who has seen further opportunities to bring the Gospel to new communities. It can also come from a local church partner, indigenous Christian leaders who see the need and potential for sharing the gospel but need assistance to do so.
Your generosity helps SEND explore opportunities alongside local churches and ministry partners.
$50
helps provide tools and resources missionaries need to prepare and serve well.
Faith Lived Out:
We want to be sure that the strategy is not just about what we want to do but what best serves those we want to engage. This takes approaches that resonate with locals and meets them where they are. What if they don't want your help? What if their perception of your help is not what you think? What are the non-spiritual needs of their community that can be in-roads to building connection and relationships?
Often, the barriers for locals entering a church are social and not spiritual.
PHASE 1 – Invitation
PHASE 5 – Engagement
living out a loosely held
plan of service
Living out the gospel among locals takes various forms. In many cases, unreached communities are in countries or cultures that are not open to Christianity or missionaries. In such contexts, missionaries participate in the community with other forms of identity, allowing them to live among the local people:
- Through conversations, forming relationships
- Through business ownership or employment
- Through NGO work, teaching English, education services, medical clinics
Your generosity helps missionaries live among communities, make disciples, and train and equip local leaders.
$1,000 helps send explore new opportunities and mobilize workers towards communities with little access to the gospel.
A spirit-led starting point to consider
Sending the gospel is not random; it begins with an
invitation. This invitation can come in various forms, but it is always connected to people and places that are tuned in to the movement of the Holy Spirit.
An invitation may come from an existing missionary in the field who has seen further opportunities to bring the Gospel to new communities. It can also come from a local church partner, indigenous Christian leaders who see the need and potential for sharing the gospel but need assistance to do so.
Your generosity helps SEND explore opportunities alongside local churches and ministry partners.
$50
helps provide tools and resources missionaries need to prepare and serve well.
Faith Lived Out:
One of our missionaries in Romania was inspired by the idea of using hobbies to bring teens and preteens together for spiritual edification. After praying, God provided an intern with pottery training and a teammate interested in teaching English, and they combined the two to start an English Pottery Club. Although neither Grace nor Jill spoke Romanian, and they were unsure of the girls' English ability, they stepped out in faith.
Their first meeting drew 12 girls. Many understood more English than expected, and most needed little or no translation. Jill shared about God as Creator, they read Scripture, and the girls discussed it together. Grace then taught them how to make clay pinch pots, and they worked with focus and creativity. Several girls have already brought friends or asked to invite others.
It's impossible to know every detail when following the Lord's direction to start something new. We can only do our best in the moment and trust that God will lead. Jill and Grace are so encouraged by the response and are anticipating that the Lord will continue to move among this group. The hope is that this club will provide a safe place for relationships, encouragement from caring adults, and learning Biblical truth about God's purposes for the girls’ lives.
PHASE 2 – Listening
A time of consideration and contemplation
The first response to an invitation is to listen. Not every invitation is responded to in the same way, so this phase of listening allows us to hear from what others are doing, how the Spirit is calling, and to discern how we should respond. Together with our partners who pray, support, and provide wisdom, we ask ourselves questions like:
What vision is God giving us for this new place?
What is leadership saying and are we aligned?
What is our part to play in what God is doing?
Your generosity
creates space
for prayerful discernment and partnership before SEND enters a new community.
$100 helps start a discovery bible study
Faith Lived Out
Mark and Rebecca had a passion to serve in Vietnam when joining SEND, but at that time no field was yet established. A new field has now been created because of their work and not simply because we said yes.
SEND spent a season of time in prayer and discerning God’s will for our place in Vietnam. After this season, leadership within SEND gathered around the decision to open this new field and confirmed it. Throughout any season of discernment, SEND maintains that whatever we decide must align with our mission and values.
PHASE 3 – Learning
Knowledge and insights that inform strategy
After listening, if we feel affirmed that we should continue exploring the opportunity, we'll move on to learning.
Learning about a potential new opportunity for church planting involves vision trips, visiting partners, understanding local contexts and needs including the values of the culture.
The knowledge and insights from this stage not only help us understand the community but also inform how we equip the missionaries who are being sent to this place.
Your generosity helps missionaries understand language, culture and barriers to the gospel.
$250 helps train and equip local leaders for
near-culture evangelism.
Faith Lived Out:
One of our teams discovered that there was an area of 10 million unreached people that no one had engaged with the Gospel. The exercise of learning began with the "near culture." There may be a Christian presence within the nation, just not in that region. A church in Northern Taiwan, for example, is much more likely to be able to teach us about how to reach people in South Taiwan than a church in New York City.
Even if the church presence in the "near culture" will not end up being part of the engagement team, they can still play a vital role in the learning process.
PHASE 4 – Strategy
SEND's role and involvement
We want to honor and respect those we aim to serve, engaging them in a way that demonstrates the gospel while being locally relevant. Only in this fourth phase, do we now determine a strategy of engagement.
What will this field be in the context of the other ministry areas within SEND? Could it be a hub that then leads to other places?
Are the opportunities fit for short, mid,
or long-term engagement?
Who should lead the team and who will we partner with?
Your generosity helps SEND develop culturally appropriate approaches alongside local believers.
$500
helps equip and coach missionaries preparing to serve among unreached communities.
Faith Lived Out
We want to be sure that the strategy is not just about what we want to do but what best serves those we want to engage. This takes approaches that resonate with locals and meets them where they are. What if they don't want your help? What if their perception of your help is not what you think? What are the non-spiritual needs of their community that can be in-roads to building connection and relationships?
Often, the barriers for locals entering a church are social and not spiritual.
PHASE 5 – Engagement
Living out a loosely held plan of service
Living out the gospel among locals takes various forms. In many cases, unreached communities are in countries or cultures that are not open to Christianity or missionaries. In such contexts, missionaries participate in the community with other forms of identity, allowing them to live among the local people:
- Through conversations, forming relationships
- Through business ownership or employment
- Through NGO work, teaching English, education services, medical clinics
Your generosity helps missionaries live among communities, make disciples, and train and equip local leaders.
$1,000
helps SEND explore new opportunities and mobilize workers towards communities with little access to the gospel.
Lasting Kingdom Impact:
One of our missionaries in Romania was inspired by the idea of using hobbies to bring teens and preteens together for spiritual edification. After praying, God provided an intern with pottery training and a teammate interested in teaching English, and they combined the two to start an English Pottery Club. Although neither Grace nor Jill spoke Romanian, and they were unsure of the girls' English ability, they stepped out in faith.
Their first meeting drew 12 girls. Many understood more English than expected, and most needed little or no translation. Jill shared about God as Creator, they read Scripture, and the girls discussed it together. Grace then taught them how to make clay pinch pots, and they worked with focus and creativity. Several girls have already brought friends or asked to invite others.
It's impossible to know every detail when following the Lord's direction to start something new. We can only do our best in the moment and trust that God will lead. Jill and Grace are so encouraged by the response and are anticipating that the Lord will continue to move among this group. The hope is that this club will provide a safe place for relationships, encouragement from caring adults, and learning Biblical truth about God's purposes for the girls’ lives.
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Pray for open doors for the good news of Jesus to be shared among the unreached.
Colossians 4:3
Pray for boldness and clarity for those sharing Christ all over the world.
Colossians 4:4
Pray for laborers to be sent into unreached parts of the world.
Matthew 9:38
Pray for receptive hearts and spiritual awakening in unreached places.
Acts 16:14
Pray
your church takes part in making His name known worldwide.
Psalm 67:1-2
Who are the unreached?
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