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Independent Christian ChurchNorth Burma Christian MissionNorth Burma Christian Mission serves Southeast Asia through evangelism, church planting, Bible training, literature, media, youth…Independent Christian Church · Missions
North Burma Christian Mission
North Burma Christian Mission — Organization Profile North Burma Christian Mission, also known as NBCM, is a Christian mission organization with roots reaching back to 1921. Its current public materials describe the ministry as a mission movement serving Southeast Asia…
North Burma Christian Mission — Organization Profile North Burma Christian Mission, also known as NBCM, is a Christian mission organization with roots reaching back to 1921. Its current public materials describe the ministry as a mission movement serving Southeast Asia through evangelism, discipleship, church planting, Bible training, literature, media, music, youth homes, community development, and deaf ministry. The organization’s stated vision is that millions in Asia would be eternally influenced for Christ through multiple outreach ministries. The mission has a U.S. home-office mailing contact in Ponca City, Oklahoma, while its field work is centered in Thailand and broader Southeast Asia. The ministry’s history began with J. Russell and Gertrude Morse serving in Tibet and China, continued into Burma in the…
North Burma Christian Mission — Organization Profile
North Burma Christian Mission, also known as NBCM, is a Christian mission organization with roots reaching back to 1921. Its current public materials describe the ministry as a mission movement serving Southeast Asia through evangelism, discipleship, church planting, Bible training, literature, media, music, youth homes, community development, and deaf ministry. The organization’s stated vision is that millions in Asia would be eternally influenced for Christ through multiple outreach ministries.
The mission has a U.S. home-office mailing contact in Ponca City, Oklahoma, while its field work is centered in Thailand and broader Southeast Asia. The ministry’s history began with J. Russell and Gertrude Morse serving in Tibet and China, continued into Burma in the early 1950s, and later relocated to Thailand in 1972. Today, NBCM describes its work as extending across multiple countries, languages, and people groups in Asia.
NBCM operates through a team of missionaries and national coworkers. Its evangelistic work includes partnering with committed national preachers to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches among tribal and local people groups. Leadership training is another core area, with Bible training courses and Bible schools serving church leaders and members across many ethnicities and languages.
The mission also supports Christian literature and media in minority languages. Its literature department in Thailand translates, designs, and prepares Bibles, hymnbooks, and other Christian materials for more than a dozen people groups. Its media and music ministries create sermons, dramas, testimonies, Christian programs, hymnbooks, music recordings, and videos that can be shared through social media and local distribution channels.
NBCM’s holistic work includes youth homes, community development, business as mission, and deaf ministry. Youth homes provide safe housing during the school year so tribal children can receive formal education while remaining connected to Christian values and their cultural identity. Development work includes agriculture, infrastructure, health and sanitation, water projects, education, church planting, and relief assistance. Deaf ministry has included churches started in Chiang Mai that are now led by local leaders.
People can engage with North Burma Christian Mission by praying for the work, subscribing to missionary newsletters, supporting individual missionaries, giving by check to the general mission fund, and learning about specific field ministries through the mission team pages. Its distinct contribution is long-term, multi-generational Christian mission work among tribal and local communities in Southeast Asia, combining Gospel proclamation with leadership training, local-language resources, and practical community care.
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Independent Christian ChurchInternational Christian Braille MissionInternational Christian Braille Mission provides free Braille and audio Christian materials for blind and visually impaired…Independent Christian Church · Missions
International Christian Braille Mission
International Christian Braille Mission — Organization Profile International Christian Braille Mission, also known as ICBM, is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Grayson, Kentucky. Since 1975, the organization has distributed free Braille and audio Christian materials to blind and visually…
International Christian Braille Mission — Organization Profile International Christian Braille Mission, also known as ICBM, is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Grayson, Kentucky. Since 1975, the organization has distributed free Braille and audio Christian materials to blind and visually impaired individuals around the world. Its ministry focuses on spreading the gospel of Jesus and helping people deepen their relationship with God through accessible Christian literature. The organization’s core focus is producing and distributing Christian resources in Braille and audio formats for people who are blind or visually impaired. ICBM identifies itself as a unique ministry within the Restoration Movement, serving people who may not be able to use traditional printed materials. Its work supports biblical authority, church unity, discipleship,…
International Christian Braille Mission — Organization Profile
International Christian Braille Mission, also known as ICBM, is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Grayson, Kentucky. Since 1975, the organization has distributed free Braille and audio Christian materials to blind and visually impaired individuals around the world. Its ministry focuses on spreading the gospel of Jesus and helping people deepen their relationship with God through accessible Christian literature.
The organization’s core focus is producing and distributing Christian resources in Braille and audio formats for people who are blind or visually impaired. ICBM identifies itself as a unique ministry within the Restoration Movement, serving people who may not be able to use traditional printed materials. Its work supports biblical authority, church unity, discipleship, and gospel access for readers and listeners who need accessible formats.
ICBM serves from Grayson, Kentucky, with worldwide outreach to blind and visually impaired individuals. Public resource listings describe ICBM materials being distributed in approximately 20 countries, including the United States, England, Malawi, Thailand, India, Australia, Bangladesh, and Cuba. The organization also has ministry activity in Liberia, where it partners with others to serve a village of blind individuals and a private school for blind children in Grand Bassa County.
The organization operates through Braille production, audio ministry, a sharing library, Africa ministry, conference attendance, and ministry partnerships. Its Braille production includes regular publications such as We Would See Jesus Magazine and Every Day in God’s Word devotional, along with a catalog of available publications. Its audio ministry provides monthly audio cartridges with devotionals, magazine articles, Christian books, and ministry updates recorded by volunteers.
A distinctive part of International Christian Braille Mission’s work is making gospel-centered materials available at no cost through specialized Braille equipment, volunteer readers, audio technology, and practical partnerships. ICBM uses embossers, a form burster, binding equipment, and other tools to prepare Braille resources. It also partners with Braille Bibles International for full Braille Bible requests and uses audio tools such as solar audio Bible devices for people who may not read Braille.
People can engage with International Christian Braille Mission by praying, giving financially, volunteering as audio readers, helping in person near Grayson, connecting ICBM with blind or visually impaired people who could use its materials, or supporting the “10-dollar Paper Mill” program that helps cover Braille paper costs. Supporters can also introduce the ministry to churches, organize fundraising events, donate supplies for Liberia outreach, or contact the ministry directly about partnership opportunities.
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Independent Christian ChurchHOPE2HOPE2 serves internationally through safe water, education, medical care, agriculture, pastoral training, mission trips, and gospel-centered…Independent Christian Church · Missions
HOPE2
HOPE2 — Organization Profile HOPE2 is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Muncie, Indiana, serving internationally through mission trips, long-term local partnerships, pastoral training, education, medical care, agriculture, and safe water initiatives. Its public theme is “Ministry is never bigger…
HOPE2 — Organization Profile HOPE2 is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Muncie, Indiana, serving internationally through mission trips, long-term local partnerships, pastoral training, education, medical care, agriculture, and safe water initiatives. Its public theme is “Ministry is never bigger than the ONE person in front of you,” emphasizing personal relationships and gospel-centered service. The organization’s core focus is sharing the love of Christ through practical care, relationship-building, and gospel witness among communities with urgent physical and spiritual needs. HOPE2 states that when God says “go,” it goes, and when God says “put down roots,” it puts down roots. Its mission is shaped by the Great Commission and by the belief that educational, medical, relational, and practical ministry should lift…
HOPE2 — Organization Profile
HOPE2 is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Muncie, Indiana, serving internationally through mission trips, long-term local partnerships, pastoral training, education, medical care, agriculture, and safe water initiatives. Its public theme is “Ministry is never bigger than the ONE person in front of you,” emphasizing personal relationships and gospel-centered service.
The organization’s core focus is sharing the love of Christ through practical care, relationship-building, and gospel witness among communities with urgent physical and spiritual needs. HOPE2 states that when God says “go,” it goes, and when God says “put down roots,” it puts down roots. Its mission is shaped by the Great Commission and by the belief that educational, medical, relational, and practical ministry should lift high the name of Christ.
HOPE2 serves from Muncie, Indiana, with home bases in Liberia and Uganda. The ministry has also taken teams or sent resources to places such as Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Thailand, Kenya, and Honduras. In Liberia, HOPE2 has a Liberian-staffed school, clinic, and church, along with the Hope Center campus. In Uganda, the ministry is developing a Hope Center as roots are being established there.
The organization operates through several connected ministry areas. Its water work distributes safe water filtration systems and supports wells and water projects. Its education work includes Hope Academy in Liberia, teacher training, and ministry to children and youth. Its medical work addresses simple but serious needs such as malaria, parasites, and basic community healthcare. Its agriculture work includes Farming God’s Way training, helping communities learn to grow food and develop sustainable practices.
A distinctive part of HOPE2’s work is combining safe water, education, medical care, agriculture, pastoral training, and mission-team service as avenues for long-term relationships and gospel ministry. Since 2006, HOPE2 has trained pastors in Africa, and its 54TEN initiative aims to conduct pastoral training in all 54 African countries over 10 years. The ministry describes training leaders as another way of “watering the thirsty” by strengthening those who are helping others.
People can engage with HOPE2 by giving financially, donating physical items, joining a mission trip, subscribing to updates, praying, attending events, using the For Reel virtual mission trip, or inviting HOPE2 to speak. Mission teams may distribute water filtration systems, invest in children, teach doctrinal truths to church and community leaders, and serve local people in Liberia, Uganda, and other places where the ministry is invited to go.
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Independent Christian ChurchFaith VenturesFaith Ventures helps churches, ministries, schools, and mission workers insure, book, and manage domestic and international…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Faith Ventures
Faith Ventures — Organization Profile Faith Ventures is a mission-travel service that helps churches, ministries, schools, and mission workers prepare for trips through travel insurance, airfare support, trip resources, and claims assistance. The organization presents itself as a collaboration between…
Faith Ventures — Organization Profile Faith Ventures is a mission-travel service that helps churches, ministries, schools, and mission workers prepare for trips through travel insurance, airfare support, trip resources, and claims assistance. The organization presents itself as a collaboration between Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company and Fly For Good Travel Company, combining ministry-focused insurance experience with mission-airfare services for teams and individual travelers. The organization’s core focus is helping mission travelers insure, book, and manage mission trips. Faith Ventures offers single-trip and multi-trip travel insurance options, including plans for short-term and longer travel needs. Its coverage information describes services such as accident and illness medical expenses, emergency medical evacuation, trip cancellation and interruption options, lost or delayed baggage support, travel assistance,…
Faith Ventures — Organization Profile
Faith Ventures is a mission-travel service that helps churches, ministries, schools, and mission workers prepare for trips through travel insurance, airfare support, trip resources, and claims assistance. The organization presents itself as a collaboration between Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company and Fly For Good Travel Company, combining ministry-focused insurance experience with mission-airfare services for teams and individual travelers.
The organization’s core focus is helping mission travelers insure, book, and manage mission trips. Faith Ventures offers single-trip and multi-trip travel insurance options, including plans for short-term and longer travel needs. Its coverage information describes services such as accident and illness medical expenses, emergency medical evacuation, trip cancellation and interruption options, lost or delayed baggage support, travel assistance, and access to emergency help while traveling.
Faith Ventures serves churches, ministries, schools, mission workers, and mission teams traveling domestically and internationally. Its materials describe ministry travel that may involve a local disaster-relief project or a short-term mission trip halfway around the world. The organization’s trip resources and helpdesk are designed for people preparing to travel, leading groups, managing claims, or comparing coverage options before departure.
The organization operates through an online platform where travelers can compare plans, purchase coverage, request airfare quotes, file claims, and review travel-preparation resources. Faith Ventures also provides a helpdesk with articles on plan selection, claims, emergency situations, baggage issues, trip delays, mission airfare, and other travel concerns. Its airfare services are offered through experienced agents who work with individual travelers, small groups, and larger mission teams.
A distinctive part of Faith Ventures’ work is connecting practical travel protection with mission-focused service. The organization states that its team shares Christian values and wants to support the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Its public materials also describe a “Buy a Plan, Give a Meal” initiative, through which each purchased plan helps feed a refugee child on the border of Myanmar and Thailand through a partnership with Venture.
People can engage with Faith Ventures by purchasing a travel insurance plan, comparing short-term or long-term coverage options, requesting individual or group airfare quotes, using the trip-resources library, or contacting customer service before a mission trip. Travelers who experience a covered incident can also use Faith Ventures’ claims resources and emergency contact information to begin the claims process or seek assistance while away from home.
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EducationELICELIC equips professional educators to work overseas through English teaching, cross-cultural relationships, team-based service, and educational…Education · Independent Christian Church
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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.
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Independent Christian ChurchCoaching Mission InternationalCoaching Mission International provides Christ-centered coaching and coach training to strengthen global mission workers, leaders, and…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Coaching Mission International
Coaching Mission International — Organization Profile Coaching Mission International (CMI) is a Christian coaching and training ministry that serves global mission workers and mission organizations. Its stated mission is through coaching and training, CMI empowers global mission workers and organizations…
Coaching Mission International — Organization Profile Coaching Mission International (CMI) is a Christian coaching and training ministry that serves global mission workers and mission organizations. Its stated mission is through coaching and training, CMI empowers global mission workers and organizations for greater Kingdom impact. The organization focuses on helping missionaries, cross-cultural workers, ministry leaders, and organizations gain support, clarity, resilience, and practical skills for sustainable ministry. CMI is connected with leadership in Arizona and serves mission workers across 110 countries. Its story began in 2004, when a mission organization working in South Asia invited coaching support for six global workers. That initial work led to a wider vision for making coaching available to thousands of field staff, and Coaching Mission…
Coaching Mission International — Organization Profile
Coaching Mission International (CMI) is a Christian coaching and training ministry that serves global mission workers and mission organizations. Its stated mission is through coaching and training, CMI empowers global mission workers and organizations for greater Kingdom impact. The organization focuses on helping missionaries, cross-cultural workers, ministry leaders, and organizations gain support, clarity, resilience, and practical skills for sustainable ministry.
CMI is connected with leadership in Arizona and serves mission workers across 110 countries. Its story began in 2004, when a mission organization working in South Asia invited coaching support for six global workers. That initial work led to a wider vision for making coaching available to thousands of field staff, and Coaching Mission International was incorporated in 2006. Since then, CMI has trained more than 500 mission leaders serving in 54 countries and has provided more than 65,000 hours of coaching to more than 4,100 mission workers.
The organization’s core focus is developing global workers to have transformative and sustainable impact. CMI describes coaching as a way to help workers process challenges, transitions, calling, leadership questions, cultural adjustment, team dynamics, purpose, and spiritual formation. Its vision is to see mission workers strengthened, encouraged, and equipped to serve well and thrive.
CMI operates through coaching, coach training, workshops, courses, mentoring, and volunteer support. Its courses include Foundations for Coaching Excellence, Advanced Mentor Coaching, Coaching with Personality Types, Coaching with Cultural Intelligence, Coaching with Life Purpose, Advanced Global Coach Certificate, and Training Transformational Trainers. The Advanced Life Coach Certificate is accredited by the International Coaching Federation as a Level 1 training program.
The ministry’s distinctives include Christ-centered coaching, cross-cultural awareness, mission experience, and training designed for people serving in global ministry contexts. CMI’s coaches and trainers bring experience from pastoral ministry, international missions, member care, leadership development, nonprofit work, education, counseling, and cross-cultural service. The organization’s materials emphasize the coach approach as useful not only for certified coaches, but also for ministry workers who want to lead and serve others more effectively.
People can engage with Coaching Mission International by getting a coach, becoming a coach, taking a course, attending a workshop, scheduling a call, giving financially, receiving email updates, volunteering, or exploring opportunities to serve with the CMI team. The organization also invites mission workers, churches, and mission organizations to use coaching skills as a tool for strengthening leaders and supporting people serving in challenging ministry settings.
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Independent Christian ChurchAsia Christian ServicesAsia Christian Services supports indigenous Asian missionaries through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, leadership training, and relief…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Asia Christian Services
Asia Christian Services — Organization Profile Asia Christian Services is a Christian mission organization focused on empowering indigenous Asian missionaries to reach the unreached, plant new churches, and disciple believers. Commonly known as ACS, the ministry is built on three…
Asia Christian Services — Organization Profile Asia Christian Services is a Christian mission organization focused on empowering indigenous Asian missionaries to reach the unreached, plant new churches, and disciple believers. Commonly known as ACS, the ministry is built on three generations of missionary work connected with the Morse family and began as an effort to support Asian Christian workers continuing gospel ministry in Southeast Asia. ACS is based in Mason, Ohio, and its ministry work focuses on Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Northeast India, Laos, Bangladesh, and western China. The organization states that its work began in northern Myanmar and later expanded across borders as Asian missionaries carried the gospel into additional tribal, village, and regional contexts. Its approach emphasizes…
Asia Christian Services — Organization Profile
Asia Christian Services is a Christian mission organization focused on empowering indigenous Asian missionaries to reach the unreached, plant new churches, and disciple believers. Commonly known as ACS, the ministry is built on three generations of missionary work connected with the Morse family and began as an effort to support Asian Christian workers continuing gospel ministry in Southeast Asia.
ACS is based in Mason, Ohio, and its ministry work focuses on Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Northeast India, Laos, Bangladesh, and western China. The organization states that its work began in northern Myanmar and later expanded across borders as Asian missionaries carried the gospel into additional tribal, village, and regional contexts. Its approach emphasizes supporting local Christian workers who understand the languages, cultures, and ministry needs of the people they serve.
The mission’s history traces back to J. Russell and Gertrude Morse, who began missionary work in Tibet in 1921 and later served in western China and Burma. In 1966, LaVerne Morse established Asia Christian Services to support tribal Christian leaders who remained in Burma and continued missionary outreach. ACS reports that these workers planted churches, crossed tribal and language barriers, developed leadership training centers and Bible colleges, began radio broadcasts, and supported Bible translation and Christian literature in local languages.
ACS operates through several ministry areas, including evangelism, church planting, discipleship, training, relief, and assistance programs. The ministry supports indigenous efforts to share the gospel, encourages local evangelists who plant churches, helps strengthen believers in local congregations, and provides Bible-based teaching for pastors, evangelists, and Christian workers. ACS also identifies radio broadcasting, literature translation and preparation, village medical services, leadership training seminars, and personal visits with Asian partners as part of its ministry process.
The organization also responds to practical needs connected with displacement, disaster, and poverty. ACS describes relief and assistance programs that procure and distribute food, medicine, and basic supplies to refugees and displaced people. Its giving page and ministry updates connect donor support with evangelist support, new church planting, schools, orphanages, refugee relief, and disaster response. These efforts are presented as ways to serve communities while strengthening the work of local Christian leaders.
People can engage with Asia Christian Services by praying for Asian evangelists and Christian workers, giving financially, following ministry updates, signing up for newsletters, and sharing in support for projects across Southeast Asia. ACS encourages regular prayer for workers, political stability, peace, additional laborers, and the people of Myanmar and surrounding regions. Financial support helps provide resources for church planters, relief work, training, and ongoing ministry among unreached and under-resourced communities.
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ConsultingHealthy Churches NetworkHealthy Churches Network is a Phoenix, Arizona-based ministry led by Dean Trune that serves church leaders…Consulting · Independent Christian Church
Healthy Churches Network
Healthy Churches Network — Organization Profile Healthy Churches Network (HCN) is a ministry organization that helps congregations and Christian leaders pursue church health through coaching, written resources, and seminars. The organization describes its purpose as assisting churches in becoming healthier…
Healthy Churches Network — Organization Profile Healthy Churches Network (HCN) is a ministry organization that helps congregations and Christian leaders pursue church health through coaching, written resources, and seminars. The organization describes its purpose as assisting churches in becoming healthier and building a network where leaders can learn from one another and make a greater impact in their communities. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, HCN serves church leaders around the United States, and its director’s teaching ministry has also included seminars in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, and Thailand. The ministry’s core emphasis is not simply organizational technique, but helping leaders focus on intimacy with Jesus and follow His lead. That spiritual focus shapes HCN’s coaching approach, which centers on prayer,…
Healthy Churches Network — Organization Profile
Healthy Churches Network (HCN) is a ministry organization that helps congregations and Christian leaders pursue church health through coaching, written resources, and seminars. The organization describes its purpose as assisting churches in becoming healthier and building a network where leaders can learn from one another and make a greater impact in their communities. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, HCN serves church leaders around the United States, and its director’s teaching ministry has also included seminars in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, and Thailand.
The ministry’s core emphasis is not simply organizational technique, but helping leaders focus on intimacy with Jesus and follow His lead. That spiritual focus shapes HCN’s coaching approach, which centers on prayer, personal discipleship, and leadership health. The organization presents church health as something that grows out of the spiritual and relational life of leaders, not only from ministry systems. Its stated vision is to connect leaders in ways that strengthen both their churches and their witness in their communities.
Healthy Churches Network operates through a mix of one-on-one and team coaching, teaching events, and practical ministry tools. Its site highlights Christian coaching for leaders and leadership teams, along with a library of books, assessments, downloadable documents, newsletters, webinars, and seminars. These resources include leadership assessments, discipleship and coaching assessments, the PH Meter, and a prayer resource called Heal Our Nation. Together, those tools show a strategy that combines spiritual formation with practical evaluation for pastors, ministry staff, and church leadership teams.
Dean Trune serves as the director of Healthy Churches Network. HCN identifies him as a certified life coach who works with Christian leaders and leadership teams, helping them focus on intimacy with Jesus. The organization’s biographical material also connects his ministry to decades of prayer seminars and teaching in many states and several countries. That background helps explain the network’s strong emphasis on prayer, personal character, and long-term leadership development rather than short-term church growth techniques alone.
People can engage with Healthy Churches Network in several ways. Church leaders can explore coaching, use the available assessments, attend or host seminars, read Dean Trune’s books, or make use of downloadable ministry materials. Supporters can also contribute financially through the organization’s donation page. For churches looking for outside encouragement, spiritual coaching, or practical tools for leadership reflection, HCN presents itself as a resource aimed at healthier leaders, healthier teams, and healthier churches.
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Independent Christian ChurchRapha InternationalRapha International is a Joplin, Missouri-based Christian nonprofit working in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti, and the United…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Rapha International
Rapha International — Organization Profile Rapha International is a Christian nonprofit committed to ending the trafficking and sexual abuse of children—one child, one family, and one community at a time. The organization is based in Joplin, Missouri, and operates trauma-informed…
Rapha International — Organization Profile Rapha International is a Christian nonprofit committed to ending the trafficking and sexual abuse of children—one child, one family, and one community at a time. The organization is based in Joplin, Missouri, and operates trauma-informed programs in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti, and the United States. Rapha’s work is designed to protect children, support survivors, and strengthen families and communities so that long-term safety and healing are possible. Founded in 2003, Rapha began with a Survivor Care campus in Battambang, Cambodia. The organization’s name reflects its purpose—Rapha notes that “Rapha” means “healing” in Hebrew—and its strategy has expanded beyond one residential setting into a broader network of services across multiple countries. Rapha describes its overall approach as…
Rapha International — Organization Profile
Rapha International is a Christian nonprofit committed to ending the trafficking and sexual abuse of children—one child, one family, and one community at a time. The organization is based in Joplin, Missouri, and operates trauma-informed programs in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti, and the United States. Rapha’s work is designed to protect children, support survivors, and strengthen families and communities so that long-term safety and healing are possible.
Founded in 2003, Rapha began with a Survivor Care campus in Battambang, Cambodia. The organization’s name reflects its purpose—Rapha notes that “Rapha” means “healing” in Hebrew—and its strategy has expanded beyond one residential setting into a broader network of services across multiple countries. Rapha describes its overall approach as holistic: care for survivors, prevention for vulnerable children, and support for families and communities where exploitation risk is high.
Rapha’s Survivor Care programs provide residential and non-residential services for children who have been impacted by trafficking and abuse. Rapha summarizes Survivor Care through four “Keys to Freedom”: Safety, Healing, Education, and Social Work. This framework highlights both immediate stabilization (safe placement and protection) and longer-term restoration through trauma-informed support, educational pathways, and case management that addresses legal, family, and community realities.
Prevention work is designed to reduce vulnerability before exploitation occurs. Rapha explains that its Prevention program strengthens families and communities and promotes child protection through community-based support. Community Workers connect with families to provide resources, education, and social support, and Rapha also references Kids Club Community Centers and other community activities as part of prevention services. Across these efforts, prevention aims to address risk factors like instability, limited access to care, and barriers to education.
In the United States, Rapha’s Hope & Healing Center adds another layer of care by providing counseling and community support in the Joplin area. Rapha also offers advocacy and church resources to help supporters move from awareness to action, including the Freedom Kids curriculum, the Freedom Box resource set, and prayer and advocacy tools. Supporters can engage by giving, fundraising, praying, sharing resources, and shopping the Rapha Freedom Store (which the organization states directs profits back into program operations).
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Independent Christian ChurchCMF International (CMF)CMF International (CMFI) is a missions-sending organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana, supporting teams in 26 countries…Independent Christian Church · Missions
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CMF International — Organization Profile CMF International (also known as Christian Missionary Fellowship International, CMF Missions) is a global missions organization that works to create dynamic, Christ-centered communities that transform the world. For more than 75 years, CMF has helped…
CMF International — Organization Profile CMF International (also known as Christian Missionary Fellowship International, CMF Missions) is a global missions organization that works to create dynamic, Christ-centered communities that transform the world. For more than 75 years, CMF has helped send and support missionaries serving across cultures and communities, partnering with local Christians and churches to pursue long-term, reproducible ministry. CMF’s home office is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and its teams serve across 26 countries and regions worldwide. Current ministry locations span places such as Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and Ukraine, along with broader regions including West Africa and the Middle East/North Africa. This geographic breadth reflects CMF’s emphasis on collaborative, on-the-ground teams that plan and carry out…
CMF International — Organization Profile
CMF International (also known as Christian Missionary Fellowship International, CMF Missions) is a global missions organization that works to create dynamic, Christ-centered communities that transform the world. For more than 75 years, CMF has helped send and support missionaries serving across cultures and communities, partnering with local Christians and churches to pursue long-term, reproducible ministry.
CMF’s home office is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and its teams serve across 26 countries and regions worldwide. Current ministry locations span places such as Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and Ukraine, along with broader regions including West Africa and the Middle East/North Africa. This geographic breadth reflects CMF’s emphasis on collaborative, on-the-ground teams that plan and carry out ministry alongside national leaders and local congregations.
A key distinctive of CMF is its focus on four interrelated ministry strategies. First, CMF supports church-planting efforts that aim to develop disciples and leaders who can multiply new faith communities—often through mentoring and leadership training. In multiple contexts, CMF has helped establish leadership training centers that strengthen Bible knowledge and practical ministry skills so that local leaders can guide churches toward maturity and reproduction.
Second, CMF’s Marketplace Ministries place working professionals in roles and settings where traditional mission access can be limited. These teams pursue holistic ministry and development through education, business, and community engagement—sometimes helping disciple and train local entrepreneurs toward “Kingdom businesses” that contribute to spiritual and economic transformation. Third, through Globalscope, CMF welcomes university students into community on international campuses where Christian ministries may be difficult to find. Globalscope emphasizes open, relational community where students can ask hard questions while experiencing Christian hospitality and witness.
Fourth, CMF’s holistic poverty-focused ministries address practical needs while integrating gospel-centered discipleship. CMF describes work such as education and community sponsorship (including support like education, nutrition, and medical care where possible), microfinance and Village Savings and Loans, Community Health Evangelism (CHE), medical ministry, and water projects that expand access to safe water and support community resilience.
CMF also describes itself as a “full-service” missions organization, providing support before, during, and after intercultural service. This includes assessment for field fit, training and coaching for support-raising, help with documentation such as visas and permits, financial accounting services, and member care that can include counseling and crisis support. People interested in serving can explore multiple pathways—from REACH (an 8-week intercultural internship) and an Exchange Semester, to the EQUIP Experience (a 10-month program in England) and long-term service. Others can engage by praying, partnering as a sending church, or giving to specific people and projects or broader needs.
