My Top Picks: International Faith-Based Organizations

People often ask me: WHAT ORGANIZATIONS do I connect with if I want to…

…move overseas? befriend international students? do a cross-cultural internship? welcome refugees? give to relief efforts?

Here's my top picks. I invite you to partner with these international (most of them), faith-based organizations influencing the world today. Research them. Follow them on social media. Financially support them. Find ways to volunteer with them. Work for them. Sign up for the e-mails. Contact them!

***I've only chosen ones I have personal knowledge and experience with—so I can recommend them to you. There’s maaaaany more out there.

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International sending agencies

—that recruit, train and send people to live in unreached people groups to make disciples that make disciples—

  • Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes Mission, specializing in Bible translation for tribal animists) www.ethnos360.org

  • Frontiers (specializing in serving Muslims) www.frontiers.org

  • International Mission Board (specializing in serving unreached people groups) www.imb.org

  • Operation Mobilization (specializing in serving unreached people groups) www.om.org

  • Pioneers (specializing in serving Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists) (www.pioneers.org)

  • Wycliffe Bible Translators (specializing in Bible translation for unreached people groups) www.wycliff.org

  • YWAM Frontier Missions (specializing in serving unreached people groups) www.ywamfm.org

Organizations focused on discipling university students at home and abroad


Cross-cultural internships

International faith-based disaster relief, community development, social justice, poverty alleviation, and refugee resettlement agencies

  • Compassion International (specializing in relief, rehabilitation, development) www.compassion.com

  • Food for the Hungry (specializing in relief, rehabilitation, development) www.fh.org

  • Global CHE Network (specializing in preventative medicine, evangelism, development) https://www.chenetwork.org

  • International Justice Mission (IJM) (specializing in social justice using law) www.ijm.org

  • World Relief (specializing in relief, poverty alleviation, social justice, and refugee resettlement) www.worldrelief.org

  • World Vision (specializing in relief, rehabilitation, development) www.worldvision.org

Which ones do you have experience with? Which ones do you love? Do you have others you love? Post in the comments!

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