November 3, 2026
Capturing Glimpses of God’s Glory: An Interview with Nature Photographer Kenneth Keifer
Landon Shuman
Ministries & Organizations
Middle East
Restoration Movement ministries, missions, colleges and organizations.
5 organizations
AllMissionsIndependent Christian ChurchEducationConferencesChurch of ChristConsultingPublishingChurch Planting OrganizationCohorts
Independent Christian ChurchSheltering WingsSheltering Wings is a Missouri-based mission-sending agency supporting missionaries, churches, sponsorships, and Gospel-centered relief and development…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Sheltering Wings
Sheltering Wings — Organization Profile Sheltering Wings is an international Christian mission-sending agency that partners with churches to send missionaries who take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world in word and deed. The organization equips and supports missionaries…
Sheltering Wings — Organization Profile Sheltering Wings is an international Christian mission-sending agency that partners with churches to send missionaries who take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world in word and deed. The organization equips and supports missionaries for cross-cultural service, helping them move from local church calling into long-term field ministry. The ministry is based in Leasburg, Missouri, and supports missionaries and ministry projects serving in West Africa, Mexico, the Middle East, India, the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, and other global contexts. Sheltering Wings works alongside sending churches, missionary families, national pastors, and ministry partners so Gospel proclamation is connected with practical care and sustainable field support. Sheltering Wings describes its role as more than simply sending…
Sheltering Wings — Organization Profile
Sheltering Wings is an international Christian mission-sending agency that partners with churches to send missionaries who take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world in word and deed. The organization equips and supports missionaries for cross-cultural service, helping them move from local church calling into long-term field ministry.
The ministry is based in Leasburg, Missouri, and supports missionaries and ministry projects serving in West Africa, Mexico, the Middle East, India, the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, and other global contexts. Sheltering Wings works alongside sending churches, missionary families, national pastors, and ministry partners so Gospel proclamation is connected with practical care and sustainable field support.
Sheltering Wings describes its role as more than simply sending workers. It helps missionaries and their churches navigate the complexities of moving and ministering cross-culturally, provides ongoing missionary care, and supports the transition from everyday life to the mission field. Its public ministry description emphasizes recruiting, training, sending, caring for, and encouraging missionaries as they develop their God-given gifts for Great Commission service.
The organization’s ministry projects include child and widow sponsorship, missionary care, clean water, medical clinic support, school funds, church planting, national pastor support, unreached people evangelism, crisis and food assistance, women’s ministry, children’s homes, leprosy outreach, Bible school support, and community development. These projects show the organization’s focus on holistic mission work that combines evangelism, discipleship, relief, development, and care for vulnerable people.
Sheltering Wings’ history includes substantial work in West Africa, where ministry efforts grew from an orphanage into a broader network that included a primary and secondary school, clinic, child sponsorship, and widow sponsorship. Current public project listings also include ministries such as Oasis of Hope, House of Samuel Children’s Home, Ruth’s Widows Basket, national pastor equipping, girls training, clean water projects, and missionary family support.
People can engage with Sheltering Wings by praying, giving to the Core Ministry Fund, supporting specific missionaries or projects, sponsoring a child or widow, exploring short-term or long-term mission service, joining the newsletter, or contacting the organization about next steps in missionary service. Its distinct contribution is church-partnered missionary sending that combines Gospel proclamation, cross-cultural support, missionary care, sponsorship, and practical relief and development work around the world.
Key Links
Contact Information
Socials
Leadership
Independent Christian ChurchIberoamerican MinistriesIberoamerican Ministries plants churches, serves with compassion, trains leaders, and sends disciples through mission work in…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Iberoamerican Ministries
Iberoamerican Ministries — Organization Profile Iberoamerican Ministries, also known as IAM, is a Christian mission organization based in Monroe, Washington. The organization describes itself with the words “Planting. Serving. Sending.” and works to see peoples, communities, and nations transformed by…
Iberoamerican Ministries — Organization Profile Iberoamerican Ministries, also known as IAM, is a Christian mission organization based in Monroe, Washington. The organization describes itself with the words “Planting. Serving. Sending.” and works to see peoples, communities, and nations transformed by Christ through global movements of Kingdom disciples. The organization’s core focus is planting churches, serving with compassion, and sending disciples through church planting, leadership training, education, children’s outreach, compassion projects, and missionary development. IAM states that its vision is to see peoples, communities, and nations transformed by Christ through global movements of Kingdom disciples, and its mission is “to plant churches, serve with compassion and send disciples.” Iberoamerican Ministries serves in South America, West Africa, the Middle East, and Europe,…
Iberoamerican Ministries — Organization Profile
Iberoamerican Ministries, also known as IAM, is a Christian mission organization based in Monroe, Washington. The organization describes itself with the words “Planting. Serving. Sending.” and works to see peoples, communities, and nations transformed by Christ through global movements of Kingdom disciples.
The organization’s core focus is planting churches, serving with compassion, and sending disciples through church planting, leadership training, education, children’s outreach, compassion projects, and missionary development. IAM states that its vision is to see peoples, communities, and nations transformed by Christ through global movements of Kingdom disciples, and its mission is “to plant churches, serve with compassion and send disciples.”
Iberoamerican Ministries serves in South America, West Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, with work publicly identified in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Central America, Sierra Leone, Spain, Italy, and the Canary Islands. Its history began with missionaries arriving in Chile in 1977 and planting churches in Maipu, a community outside Santiago. IAM was founded as a nonprofit mission organization in 1992, and the work later expanded into Peru, Ecuador, southern Chile, the Middle East, Sierra Leone, and Europe.
The organization operates through church planting, discipleship, leadership development, compassion ministries, schools, tutoring programs, feeding programs, community centers, housing projects, clean water work, business-as-mission, and missionary sending. In Chile, IAM’s Maipu churches have grown into a network of churches led by national leaders and pastors. Its IAM Institute began in 1996 to train leaders, missionaries, and pastors in biblical studies and is active in Chile, Ecuador, and Peru.
A distinctive part of IAM’s work is developing local leaders and churches that can continue extending the kingdom work beyond their own communities. In Ecuador, IAM’s ministries include church plants, schools, children’s programs, and housing projects connected to earthquake response. In Sierra Leone, IAM’s work includes clean water through manual borehole wells, medical and food-related compassion work, and church planting in rural villages. In Central America, IAM also describes business-as-mission work in software, web services, specialty coffee, and nonprofit consulting.
People can engage with Iberoamerican Ministries by giving, praying, subscribing to updates, contacting the office, supporting missionaries or projects, and following its ministry news. Supporters can give online or by check, designate gifts for specific workers or projects, and stay connected through IAM’s newsletter, website, and social media channels.
Key Links
Contact Information
Socials
Leadership
Independent Christian ChurchFrontiersFrontiers USA recruits, trains, sends, and serves teams working among least-reached Muslim peoples through long-term mission,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Frontiers
Frontiers USA — Organization Profile Frontiers USA is a Christian mission organization focused on sharing the gospel among Muslim peoples with limited access to Christian witness. The organization’s stated mission is to inspire transformational movements to Christ within least-reached Muslim…
Frontiers USA — Organization Profile Frontiers USA is a Christian mission organization focused on sharing the gospel among Muslim peoples with limited access to Christian witness. The organization’s stated mission is to inspire transformational movements to Christ within least-reached Muslim people groups by sending teams to catalyze change. Frontiers describes its work with the phrase “with love and respect, inviting all Muslim peoples to follow Jesus.” The organization’s core focus is recruiting, training, sending, and serving long-term teams who live in Muslim communities. Frontiers prioritizes peoples and places with the least access to the gospel and seeks to make disciples among Muslim peoples who do not know the saving message of Jesus Christ. Its approach emphasizes long-term presence, team-based ministry,…
Frontiers USA — Organization Profile
Frontiers USA is a Christian mission organization focused on sharing the gospel among Muslim peoples with limited access to Christian witness. The organization’s stated mission is to inspire transformational movements to Christ within least-reached Muslim people groups by sending teams to catalyze change. Frontiers describes its work with the phrase “with love and respect, inviting all Muslim peoples to follow Jesus.”
The organization’s core focus is recruiting, training, sending, and serving long-term teams who live in Muslim communities. Frontiers prioritizes peoples and places with the least access to the gospel and seeks to make disciples among Muslim peoples who do not know the saving message of Jesus Christ. Its approach emphasizes long-term presence, team-based ministry, disciple making, and locally appropriate strategies in the places where workers serve.
Frontiers USA is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and is part of a wider Frontiers network with national offices in multiple countries. The U.S. organization serves churches, mission candidates, long-term workers, short-term participants, and supporters who want to engage Muslim peoples. Its ministry scope includes regions of the Muslim world such as North Africa, the Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa, Türkiye and the Balkans, the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
The organization operates through a process it describes as recruit, train, send, and serve. Frontiers coaches across the United States help identify followers of Christ who share the organization’s heart for Muslims. Training prepares workers for language learning, disciple making, personal development, and healthy team dynamics. Teams are then sent to least-reached Muslim people groups, while pastoral coaches and other support staff serve workers and their children through the challenges of cross-cultural ministry.
A distinctive part of Frontiers USA’s model is field-governed, locally led, team-based mission work among Muslim peoples. The organization says team leaders make decisions for their own context and that teams serve with a common regional vision while adopting locally appropriate strategies. Frontiers also emphasizes coaching, accountability, grace-filled relationships, and a focus on planting healthy, reproducing churches through disciples who make more disciples.
People can engage with Frontiers USA by praying, giving to the Frontiers Mission Fund, supporting individual workers, exploring short-term trips, beginning the long-term application process, attending events, using resources, or helping a local church take next steps in mission engagement. Churches can connect with Frontiers for opportunities to send, support, and mobilize people for ministry among least-reached Muslim communities.
Key Links
Contact Information
Socials
Leadership
Leadership: Not publicly listed.
EducationELICELIC equips professional educators to work overseas through English teaching, cross-cultural relationships, team-based service, and educational…Education · Independent Christian Church
ELIC
ELIC — Organization Profile ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on…
ELIC — Organization Profile ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on teams in hard-to-access places. Its work connects professional classroom service with long-term relational presence among students, colleagues, neighbors, and local communities. ELIC is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional offices in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its educators serve across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. ELIC began sending teachers to China in 1982 and now offers teaching opportunities in universities, K–12…
ELIC — Organization Profile
ELIC is an educational organization that equips and sends professional educators to work overseas through English education. The organization focuses on helping like-minded educators live with purpose overseas by teaching English, building relationships, and serving on teams in hard-to-access places. Its work connects professional classroom service with long-term relational presence among students, colleagues, neighbors, and local communities.
ELIC is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with additional offices in Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its educators serve across Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, China, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mongolia, Morocco, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. ELIC began sending teachers to China in 1982 and now offers teaching opportunities in universities, K–12 schools, language centers, community centers, and teacher-training settings.
The organization’s core focus is English education as a pathway for meaningful global service, cultural engagement, and relationship-building. ELIC works through partnerships with governments and educational institutions, placing professional educators in settings where English instruction is needed and where teachers can serve with excellence, humility, and cultural sensitivity. Teachers may serve for a few weeks, nine months, or one year or longer.
ELIC’s programs include short-term Engage opportunities, the Global Ambassador Program, and longer-term Legacy teaching placements. Engage provides team-based summer teaching opportunities for people serving two to eight weeks. The Global Ambassador Program is a nine-month mentorship and cross-cultural development program in locations such as Thailand, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan. Legacy is ELIC’s one-year-or-longer teaching program for university campuses, K–12 schools, and language centers.
The organization also provides substantial support for educators before, during, and after overseas service. ELIC’s process includes inquiry, application, interview, preparation, pre-departure training, support development, team placement, and ongoing care while overseas. Services include orientation, health and safety assistance, visa and travel guidance, personal support, insurance, financial advising, newsletter support, alumni care, and team-based field leadership.
People can engage with ELIC by applying to work overseas as professional educators, exploring short-term or long-term teaching opportunities, joining the Global Ambassador Program, giving financially, inviting ELIC’s president or team members to speak, reading Field Notes, connecting with alumni resources, or contacting the organization for more information. ELIC also offers career opportunities for people interested in North American office support and mobilization work.
Key Links
Contact Information
Socials
Leadership
Independent Christian ChurchAl Hayat MinistriesAl Hayat Ministries is a Virginia-based Christian media ministry serving Muslim and Arabic-speaking audiences through television,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Al Hayat Ministries
Al Hayat Ministries — Organization Profile Al Hayat Ministries is a Christian media ministry focused on sharing the gospel with Muslim and Arabic-speaking audiences through satellite television, digital media, publications, audio, and online follow-up. The ministry describes its team as…
Al Hayat Ministries — Organization Profile Al Hayat Ministries is a Christian media ministry focused on sharing the gospel with Muslim and Arabic-speaking audiences through satellite television, digital media, publications, audio, and online follow-up. The ministry describes its team as including people from both Muslim and Christian backgrounds, and its work centers on presenting Christian teaching, answering questions about faith, and equipping believers from Muslim backgrounds to follow Jesus and participate in the Great Commission. The ministry is publicly listed as a nonprofit headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, and its outreach serves audiences across the Arabic-speaking world, North Africa, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, Europe, and other global regions reached through internet and satellite media. Al Hayat’s Arabic-language media work…
Al Hayat Ministries — Organization Profile
Al Hayat Ministries is a Christian media ministry focused on sharing the gospel with Muslim and Arabic-speaking audiences through satellite television, digital media, publications, audio, and online follow-up. The ministry describes its team as including people from both Muslim and Christian backgrounds, and its work centers on presenting Christian teaching, answering questions about faith, and equipping believers from Muslim backgrounds to follow Jesus and participate in the Great Commission.
The ministry is publicly listed as a nonprofit headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, and its outreach serves audiences across the Arabic-speaking world, North Africa, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, Europe, and other global regions reached through internet and satellite media. Al Hayat’s Arabic-language media work is connected to Al Hayat TV, a 24/7 Christian satellite and internet channel that produces and broadcasts programs for Muslim audiences and for Muslim-background believers.
Al Hayat’s core strategy is media-based outreach. The ministry began broadcasting Christian radio programs in Arabic and later expanded into television, digital platforms, web resources, and publications. Its programs include testimonies, Bible studies, theological teaching, and comparative religion content. Al Hayat also offers shows designed around specific audiences and questions, including programs for women, new believers, and Arabic-speaking viewers seeking Christian instruction.
The ministry operates through several named service areas, including Al Hayat TV, Waterlife Publications, MBB Global, and Al Hayat GPT. Al Hayat TV provides Christian programming and live or recorded broadcasts. Waterlife Publications supports written resources, books, booklets, and tracts. MBB Global is connected with prayer and support for Muslim-background believers, while Al Hayat GPT is presented as an AI-powered Christian assistant for questions about faith, the Bible, theology, and Christian living.
Al Hayat Ministries also emphasizes follow-up with viewers who contact the ministry. Its website invites people to reach out with ministry questions, prayer requests, and inquiries related to Christian broadcasting and services. The ministry’s stated service areas include spiritual counseling, prayer support, Bible studies, community outreach, and resources intended to strengthen faith among Arabic-speaking believers and seekers.
People can engage with Al Hayat Ministries by watching Al Hayat TV programming, using its online resources, reading or sharing its publications, subscribing to ministry updates, praying for its audience and follow-up work, or giving financially. U.S. donors can contribute through the ministry’s donation page, and the ministry states that it is registered as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization in the United States under section 501(c)(3).
