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. Subscribe to their blogs. 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. These are in alphabetical order, by category.

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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.wycliffe.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 refugee resettlement agencies (Contact them to volunteer to welcome afghans now!)

  • Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS, USA Only) www.lirs.org/refugee-resettlement

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

International faith-based disaster relief, community development, social justice, and poverty alleviation 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) 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!

Don’t forget, if you GO, you need to be able to share the Gospel clearly, authentically, naturally, and often in your everyday life cross-culturally. Are you going that HERE before you go THERE? Check out this free one-hour training How to Offer Jesus Naturally to Your Neighbors & the Nations Near You. When you watch this, at the end, I’ll tell you all about the internship-like COMPREHENSIVE training course for people like you called The Neighbors & Nations Course.

Around the World, Preparing to Go Long-TermJeannie MarieComment