Through International Missions, LifeWay affirms that Jesus called us to make disciples of all nations. While any individual church family can’t reach into every people group, we have taken up responsibility for certain people and places around the world. We do this through strategic partnerships with individuals and organizations.
Russia
Since Russia opened up in the early 1990s, LifeWay has seized opportunities to support and encourage believers to serve and engage their own communities. We continue to support partners doing evangelism in small villages, camp ministry, and supporting children in their communities. We also partner with new church-planting teams in Siberia and the far east regions of Russia.
Southeast Asia
LifeWay has also been called to pray and partner for an unreached people group in Southeast Asia that we call the Bee People. There are very few known believers among these people, so we continue to partner with people who are living and working among them. These workers have business ventures, non-profit organizations, and personal relationships that allow them to live out the gospel in this very distant place.
Mexico
Since 2014, Eternal Anchor in rural Baja California, Mexico, has been committed to providing quality disability services to children and adults, including residential care, special education, life skills training, community outreach, various therapies, and mobility equipment. LifeWay was introduced to Eternal Anchor through its executive director, Austin Robinson, and we are proud supporters of the work that they do. Visit eternalanchor.org for more information.
Tanzania
LifeWay is honored to support Leah Brooks and Elizabeth Singo in their work with Faces for Hope in Arusha, Tanzania. Faces for Hope provides relationship, discipleship, and education to Maasai girls in danger of exploitation as child brides. Visit facesforhope.org for more info.
Ghana
Through the work of TEL International, LifeWay is supporting schools and pastors in Ghana as they support their local communities. Visit telinternational.org for more information.
Turkey
LifeWay is excited to send some of our own church family to Turkey, to live and work with refugees from the Middle East. They will build relationships and work toward planting healthy discipling communities among the various groups that make up this global city. To find out more about their work, visit onecollective.org/community/middle-east.
Partner Organizations
Global Focus helps churches embrace God’s heart for the nations and organize themselves for missions mobilization. LifeWay has partnered with Global Focus since 2014 after benefitting from their training in 2012. We support president, Don Turner and SE Asian director, Allen McClellan, in addition to specific projects in eastern Europe. Visit globalfocus.info for more information.
LifeWay is supportive of World Vision’s community development model, and has partnered with them in Buliisa, Uganda since 2011. Through child sponsorship, trips, fundraising, and experiential activities, LifeWay has invested greatly in the Buliisa community. Visit worldvision.org for more information.
The International Mission Board (IMB) organizes missions work and partnerships throughout the world. They oversee several of LifeWay’s partners, including workers in SE Asia and Far-Eastern Europe. Visit imb.org for more information.