National Missionaries
By giving to our National Missionary category, you will help equip our workers to be the hands and feet of God.
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We’re transforming communities around the world through God’s love in long-term, sustainable missions.
Our History
Our mission: reach the world
Over two billion people across the planet have never heard of Jesus and have no access to churches or Jesus’ life-changing message of hope. Twenty-five million people die every year without ever hearing how much God loves them! Our mission at GFA World is to reach those people and lift them up with the hope only found in Jesus Christ.
Our mission for our lives is to be authentic followers of Jesus and to live our lives in a way that God calls us to.
Sustainabilility
We believe in sustainably supporting those in need: by raising up national missionaries through long term missions, creating spaces for people to experience God within their own culture, and to help anyone in need with our education programmes, health initiatives, practical gifts, and through spiritual transformation that brings life-changing peace, restored relationships, and repaired lives.
Since our worldwide inception in 1979…
1K+
national missionaries sent out
18
countries loved + served
39M
received clean drinking water
4K
Jesus wells each year
140K+
children sponsored
60K+
families taught proper sanitation
Our dream: change the world
We’re lifting up the broken, serving the weary, and giving hope to a diverse world – we do all of this through our national missionaries who are, at this very moment, sharing the Gospel and serving anyone in need in 18 countries.
Community and Partnership
We have an extraordinary challenge in front of us to stand with our indigenous missionaries around the world and reap the harvest God has given us. We do this with the help of our community and in partnership with the global Body of Christ, and by connecting believers in the UK to the work the indigenous missionaries are doing in the field.
How you can join us
You can be a part of this rewarding journey by giving to any of our giving categories, joining us in prayer or finding out other ways to get involved! We’d love for you to partner with us – read below to find out how.
GFA World Distinctives
Support
GFA World supports National Missionaries have few or no cultural barriers to overcome. Therefore, they can readily understand and talk with people in their communities and minister to people’s deepest needs and worries, both physically and spiritually. We believe this is the best way to be sustainable and ethical! For that reason, we enable partners in the UK to stand with our Missionaries with prayer and financial support so they can continue their courageous work of serving so many communities across the world.
Focus
National Missionaries mostly serve people in communities that are without necessities. They minister to leprosy patients, slum dwellers, widows and orphans, the sick and the hungry. These are individuals who desperately need to feel love and care from God and others but are often cast out by their very own people.
Develop
We develop communities by providing basic necessities needed for healthy living (including clean water!), gifts that create income, and vocational training for anyone who needs it. Our National Missionaries live, work, and socialise in the communities they serve, so they truly understand the practical needs of the families and individuals within those communities. As a result, they build friendships and create spaces for everyone to feel welcomed, loved, and cherished by God.
Transform
Our mission is to Transform Lives and Communities through God’s Love. To assist with this, in every area of our ministry- whether we’re providing clean water, offering disaster relief, or alleviating poverty, we always tell people the reason why we do what we do: the love of God. Our National Missionaries share why we’re all so passionate about serving, loving, and giving to those in need – it’s because God does all the same (and more!) for us.
GFA World Distinctives
Support
GFA World supports National Missionaries have few or no cultural barriers to overcome. Therefore, they can readily understand and talk with people in their communities and minister to people’s deepest needs and worries, both physically and spiritually. We believe this is the best way to be sustainable and ethical! For that reason, we enable partners in the UK to stand with our Missionaries with prayer and financial support so they can continue their courageous work of serving so many communities across the world.
Focus
National Missionaries mostly serve people in communities that are without necessities. They minister to leprosy patients, slum dwellers, widows and orphans, the sick and the hungry. These are individuals who desperately need to feel love and care from God and others but are often cast out by their very own people.
Develop
We develop communities by providing basic necessities needed for healthy living (including clean water!), gifts that create income, and vocational training for anyone who needs it. Our National Missionaries live, work, and socialise in the communities they serve, so they truly understand the practical needs of the families and individuals within those communities. As a result, they build friendships and create spaces for everyone to feel welcomed, loved, and cherished by God.
Transform
Our mission is to Transform Lives and Communities through God’s Love. To assist with this, in every area of our ministry- whether we’re providing clean water, offering disaster relief, or alleviating poverty, we always tell people the reason why we do what we do: the love of God. Our National Missionaries share why we’re all so passionate about serving, loving, and giving to those in need – it’s because God does all the same (and more!) for us.
Giving Categories
Child Sponsorship
By giving to our Child Sponsorship category, you will help to change the life of a child and their community forever.
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Sharing the Love of God
By giving to Sharing the Love of God, you will help GFA workers tell people about Jesus!
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Compassion Services
By giving to our Compassion Services category, you will help give relief in urgent situations.
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
By giving to our Breaking the Cycle of Poverty category, you will help provide families with gifts that will help change their future.
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Church Buildings
By giving to our Church Building category, you will help to provide a safe space for people to worship the Lord.
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Clean Water
By giving to our Clean Water category, you will help GFA’s clean water ministry that delivers safe, disease-free water to families in Asia and Africa.
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Bibles and Literature
By giving to our Bibles and Literature category, you will help to send Bibles for workers to give out.
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Medical Ministry
Many are suffering and dying from treatable ailments. A cold can develop into pneumonia. Burns go untreated.
Medical Ministry
Where Most Needed (General Fund)
By giving to our Where Most Needed category, you will help to meet our most pressing needs.
View categoryMeet Our Team
Our office here in the UK is run by a community-oriented team who have a huge passion for sharing the Gospel to the unreached. With this in mind, we have been serving the mission field in the UK for 25 years and we’re just as excited about our vision as we were when we started!
We place a huge value on prayer, community, friendship, discipleship, and serving. Our goal is to love God and people through sharing His Word, showing His kindness, and living out His will for our lives. Nothing makes us happier than knowing that our work (no matter how small or big the task may be) has an eternal impact all around the world!
Furthermore, we’re so excited that so many people have joined us on this journey and we can’t wait to show you all the work that God is doing in so many places.
Join us on our journey
Wherever you are, no matter how many spare moments you have, we invite you to journey with us
Give
Whether you want to make a donation or sponsor a missionary or child, we’re so excited that your passion is leading you to get involved.
Pray
Donations and sponsorships are important, but one of our greatest assets is the transforming power of prayer.
Get Involved
Change lives all around the world through fundraising, campaigning, volunteering, or even joining us on staff