Ministry Focus
National Partnerships
Not all followers of Christ are able to travel abroad as missionaries, yet God has gifted every believer for a role in the Great Commission. In today’s rapidly-changing world, one effective way for Christians to reach into every people group is to partner with national believers who are leading their own ministries in their own cultural contexts.
At ABWE, while our primary focus is sending missionaries, we also recognize that God is already working across the globe using national believers. Indigenous missionaries can often be far more effective than traditional Western missionaries in hard-to-reach and limited-access countries. For example:
- Christians throughout Asia distribute gospel booklets in languages that have no other Scripture,
- believers in Myanmar host the country’s largest theological library,
- and Indian peanut vendors pass out gospel tracts during their everyday jobs.
Perhaps you are looking for ways your church can partner with ministries overseas among unreached people groups. North Americans can join God’s work by coming alongside a national partner to pray, give, or serve. For example:
- You can pray for children to find new life in Christ after being rescued from the red light district.
- You could donate money so that an orphanage director in Haiti has what he needs to keep 200 kids off the dangerous streets.
- Or you could train national pastors digitally or in-person so they can in turn raise up more leaders to spread the gospel.
In Scripture, a desire to partner with national churches and believers overseas characterized even the Apostle Paul’s ministry. God is still using national partnership today. God works when like-minded believers bring together their own gifts and resources across cultures to work toward a common gospel goal.
We believe the goal of healthy missions is to see thriving national churches expand and for the missionary to shift from the “pioneer” mentality into a “partner” mentality over time as indigenous believers mature. ABWE maintains numerous partnerships with national-led ministries overseas, and Live Global—a ministry initiative of ABWE—exists with a specific emphasis on building global national partnerships for the glory of God.
Is God calling you to use your skills on the mission field?
Opportunities
Assistant Church Planters
NicaraguaThe church planting movement in Nicaragua is growing rapidly. Come work alongside national pastors with both new and existing church plants in a variety of locations both urban and rural.
Bible/Seminary Professors
PeruOur team in Peru needs Bible College professors with a specialty or experience in Christian Education to join our faculty at the Baptist Theological Seminary.
Campus Evangelist
PhilippinesWe need motivated campus outreach workers to evangelize and disciple university students in the Philippines.
Projects
Center for Youth Ministry Ukraine
Ukraine based Christian organization that creates educational platforms for ministers of youth Ukraine, so that every local church has trained leaders to effectively teach the Word of God, interact with young people, and shape a new generation for Christ.
The Center for Youth Ministry in Ukraine cooperates within five regions and currently operates in partnership with six Christian educational institutions.…
Asia and the Pacific Ministry Fund
Asia & the Pacific Ministry Fund is designed to empower and support national partners and missionaries in the Asia and the Pacific regions. This fund aims to facilitate the growth and establishment of new ministries, ensuring that local communities receive the spiritual and practical support they need to thrive.…
Evangelism with Shannon Wong (Bahamas)
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Center for Youth Ministry Ukraine
Ukraine based Christian organization that creates educational platforms for ministers of youth Ukraine, so that every local church has trained leaders to effectively teach the Word of God, interact with young people, and shape a new generation for Christ. The Center for Youth Ministry in Ukraine cooperates within five regions and currently operates in partnership with six Christian educational institutions.…
Asia and the Pacific Ministry Fund
Asia & the Pacific Ministry Fund is designed to empower and support national partners and missionaries in the Asia and the Pacific regions. This fund aims to facilitate the growth and establishment of new ministries, ensuring that local communities receive the spiritual and practical support they need to thrive.…
Evangelism with Shannon Wong (Bahamas)
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Leadership Training with Lucien Dawson (Belize)
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
GAP Jamaica Baptist Church Planting Agency
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
MMM Airplane Project
OUR PURPOSE IS Fly to reach far away areas. Preach to save souls in communities where is difficult, or dangerous or inaccessible to arrive. Teach to disciple them to adore and serve the Lord Our God. Help those in need providing aerial logistics.…
Support the Goroka Project (Papua New Guinea)
Tucked far away in the southwestern Pacific, Papua New Guinea and its 600 islands are often marked by a challenging mixture of tribal conflict, superficial forms of Christianity, and spirit worship—resulting in spiritual warfare and a weakened church. Ethnic strife and widespread violence have led to a culture that devalues life.…
PABWE Project Care
As PABWE missionaries only receive minimal regular support, project care is intended to address emergency cases and assist PABWE missionaries upon retirement.…
PABWE Building Maintenance
Supporting PABWE Headquarters and Missions Guest House ongoing projects and maintenance so it can be a place for meetings, trainings, and more.…
Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Bals with Ionut
This project is to support a Live Global national partnership in Romania.…
PABWE President
Eddie and Jan Rayos Eddie Rayos hailed from the highlands of Malaybalay Bukidnon, Mindanao Philippines, where one of the first Fundamental Baptist Churches (Bethel Baptist Church) was planted by ABWE. God called and enabled him into pastoral service for more than 30 years.…
Live Global | Faith and Deeds Ministry (Liberia)
Faith and Deeds Ministries in Liberia primarily uses medicine as a means for missions and evangelism. Dr. Coril and her ministry team teach churches how to do outreach in their communities by using medicine as a compassion platform. They invite teams from overseas to to travel alongside Faith and Deeds Ministries on medical outreach trips.…
Church Planting with Felix & Oana (Romania)
Felix and Oana are church planting in Bucharest, Romania. They are part of the young team working to grow the church and send others to the ends of the earth. Meet the Leaders: Felix and Oana Felix Tamaș is married to Oana and together they have two daughters.…
Live Global | Nea Zoi (Greece)
Motivated by Christ’s love, Nea Zoi volunteers weekly visit the red light districts of Athens, offering friendship, advice, and opportunities for change, believing that a relationship with a loving God is the foundation for lasting transformation. Central to their ministry is outreach, also known as street work.…
International Church in the Balkans
The international church is a new church of roughly 30 members and is committed to multiplying and equipping gospel-centered disciples, small groups, and churches that bless the city, the region, and the world. The church is located in a city and country that is less than 0.2% Christian and was ravaged by war 25 years ago.…
Live Global | Grace Ministry Center
As tensions in Haiti have grown, God gave Pastor Predestin the idea to expand his ministry impact into the Dominican Republic. The DR is is right "next door" to his primary ministry home, Haiti. Here in the Dominican, Pastor Predestin can safely train pastors, many of whom are Haitian.…
Reaching Rural Burmese with Suan and Lyn (Myanmar)
Suan and Lyn have been sharing the Gospel with Buddhists and animists since 2009. Now in 2021, they plan to extend their ministry to villages in a southern state of Myanmar. Suan and Lyn have used "The Ancient Path," a small Gospel booklet that explains God’s plan for mankind in a way that is appealing to people groups in Southeast Asia.…
Mobilizing to Unreached People Groups (Myanmar)
A group of indigenous evangelical leaders in Myanmar have mobilized to strategically reach unreached people groups in the country. An "unreached people group" or "UPG," is a people group that has less than 2% Christian adherents. For this project, indigenous missionaries are based at community mission stations throughout Myanmar where they provide services like teaching music, motorcycle repair, a barbershop, agriculture, and teaching English.…
Live Global | International Student Ministry (Ukraine)
In Ukraine there are 540 universities with two million students. These schools are home to future society influencers from all over Ukraine and all over the world. Sagar and his wife Nina work to primarily reach international students from places like India and the Middle East who are studying in the big Ukrainian city.…
Live Global | Sponsoring Kids for School (Middle East)
In many parts of the Middle East, kids experience harsh childhoods. Often, when families are short on money or have gone into debt, they will offer their children as workers instead of sending them to school. In many cases, children are at risk of working in the harsh conditions at a brick factory or doing hard physical labor of another kind.…
Live Global | The Lighthouse Campello with Joel and Magaly (Spain)
Located on the sunny Mediterranean coast, the city of El Campello, Spain has provided a safe harbor for sailors throughout human history. It's central beacon tower dates back to the Middle Ages, when it would be lit to warn other coastal towns of coming invaders.…
Live Global | Business as Mission
The Live Global Business As Mission initiative strives to partner North American business people with local business partners in countries around the world to create self-sustaining Christian communities. There is a need for profit-generating, Christ-centered solutions to engage unreached people groups, and to address strategic global issues such as poverty, slavery, unemployment, environmental degradation, and corruption.…
Live Global | Reaching the Indian Diaspora (Philippines)
Leaders of this project have a vision to reach the unreached with the gospel of Jesus, make disciples, and plant churches in every barangay of the Philippines where Indian people live. They focus on the Indian diaspora, specifically Sikh and Punjabi people who have migrated to the Philippines for business and opportunities. …
Discipleship w/ Pastor Meo (Philippines)
Pastor Meo and his team and church are working to reach out to more towns and municipalities in their province of the Philippines. They focus on small group discipleship to edify and equip our members to become disciple-makers who start churches in their communities.…
Live Global | New Page Ministries
About the Ministry New Page Ministries is a collaboration between Ingrid (biblical counseling ministry) and Bo (IAMoneworld creative ministry). After 35+ years of modern spirituality and New Age teachings, God opened their eyes and they became followers of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.…
Media & Discipleship (Middle East)
Social Media as Ministry Samuel and Ruth are a dynamic couple who truly understand discipleship in our very modern times. They have raised up a team of young people to love Christ and share Him with others. This team utilizes social media platforms to share Jesus in closed nations.…
Missionary Training with Sergio and Becky
Both Sergio and Becky are second-generation missionaries! Sergio’s family has ministry roots in Paraguay and Chile. His parents are missionaries in Paraguay. Becky’s parents served in Ecuador and now in Argentina. They each responded to God’s call to ministry during their teens.…
Savannah Bible Institute
The Savannah Bible Institute project exists to train leaders for the church-planting ministry in Northern Togo. Our desire is to train leaders, strong in the Word, that will effectively lead churches, plant other churches, and launch missions movements in Northern Togo and beyond.…
Live Global Sports Ministry
Sports ministry! We are building a multi-faceted team that will be able to assist our national partners and missionaries with training in many areas – how to run a sports ministry, how to coach and setup practices, how to officiate for running tournaments, basic first aid & CPR training in case of emergency’s, strength/conditioning programs for those who want to open gyms or for training teams, how to setup and run a business to be able to create income to support their ministry and families, biblical training at all levels. …
