The following organizations have joined LifeWind International as Strategic Alliance partners, working together to advance transformational ministries among the world's poor:
- American Leprosy Missions
- Breakthrough Partners
- Christian and Missionary Alliance
- Christian Missionary Fellowship (CMF)
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
- Equip International
- Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA)
- Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME)
- Fida International
- Free Will Baptist International Missions
- HealthCare Ministries
- Lifewater International
- MEDICS International Care, Inc.
- The Mission Society
- Mobile Missions International, Inc.
- Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
- Serving in Missions (SIM)
- Southern Baptist
About the Partners
American Leprosy Missions (ALM)
Founded in 1906, American Leprosy Missions provides care to people around the world with leprosy and with Buruli ulcer and related disabilities. ALM is a non-denominational Christian ministry of hope and restoration for those suffering with these diseases.
Breakthrough Partners
Breakthrough Partners works to strengthen local churches with a biblical worldview to bring wholistic transformation to individuals, families, communities and nations. They connect people to people, ideas, prayer, tools and resources for transformational work; coach, train and mentor leaders in wholistic partnership; and catalyze and facilitate partnerships that will strengthen and multiply local churches.
Christian and Missionary Alliance
An Alliance of evangelical believers, joined together in local churches, dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission given by Jesus Christ. Christian and Missionary Alliance maintains a "big tent" stance in reference to many doctrinal matters, encouraging believers of diverse backgrounds and theological traditions to unite in an alliance to know and exalt Jesus Christ and to complete His Commission.
Christian Missionary Fellowship (CMF)
Wherever the unreached are, Christian Missionary Fellowship wants to be there...whether as church planters, counselors, teachers, or entrepreneurs...wherever...CMF team members will be deeply involved in sharing their faith and establishing groups of believers. CMF desires today, just as it has been for over 53 years, is to fulfill this task with excellence.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee is a relief, development, and educational ministry of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. CRWRC partners with local agencies that understand local needs. Together CRWRC and its partners find ways to provide lasting change for people in more than 30 countries around the world. CRWRC believes that by helping people help themselves the chains of poverty can be stripped away.
Equip International
Equip is an evangelical mission organization that demonstrates Christ in practical ways around the world. Equip works with missionaries who want to use service-oriented vocations out of a desire to help others, men and women with a unique sensitivity to their responsibility for sharing Christ with their neighbors through actions as well as words. Equip missionaries apply their efforts through the local church into the community, rather than just work in the community apart from the church.
Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA)
Evangelical Free Church of America is an association of some 1,300 autonomous churches united by a mutual commitment to server our Lord Jesus Christ with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and obedience to the Word of God. The EFCA is committed to cooperate with one another in ministry and fellowship as we seek to fulfill the Great Commission which Christ has entrusted to His Church. The growing ministry of the EFCA currently extends to some 45 countries around the world.
Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME)
Fellowship of Associates of Medial Evangelism exists to spread the fame of Jesus Christ to all nations through medical evangelism. FAME seeks to lead people to Christ and meet real physical needs by partnering with other mission organizations to deliver a unique combination of medical mission services providing desperately needed medical facilities, life-saving and sustaining medicines and medical supplies, and hands-on care through medically focused short-term mission teams.
Fida International
Fida is a Finnish International Development Agency and one of biggest and most experienced non-governmental development organizations in Finland. Nowadays Fida carries out about 76 development cooperation programs in almost 30 countries, humanitarian assistance in 13 countries, and child sponsorship programs in 9 countries. The main emphasis of Fida's actions is the capacity building of their partners, enabling them to become positive influencers in their communities, living with dignity and as holistically healthy sustainable communities.
Free Will Baptist International Missions
Free Will Baptist International Missions serves churches, pastors, and people by helping them fulfill their role in establishing churches beyond North America so unreached peoples can know the joy of a worshipping relationship with the living God.
HealthCare Ministries
HealthCare Ministries believes in using medicine as a tool to reach people for Christ: a way to gain access to areas that would otherwise be closed, and reach people who would otherwise be unresponsive. The goal of Healthcare Ministries is not merely to care for physical ailments, but to strive to go beyond the stethoscope, to minister to spiritual and emotional needs as well. Not only are they able to instill hope that heals in the people they minister to, but through compassionate touch God has opened doors and provided opportunities that may have been impossible otherwise.
Lifewater International
Lifewater International is a Christian training organization with water development goals who understands the basic need in our world for safe water, improved hygiene, and adequate sanitation. Lifewater believes the solutions to these problems can be addressed through the development of local communities. They train nationals to improve local drinking water supplies and community health. National crews are able to continue working and training others after our trainers return home. They share the gospel message of living water with communities as they help break the cycle of disease and poverty.
MEDICS International Care, Inc.
MEDICS International Care, Inc. is a holistic ministry that offers physical and spiritual healing around the world. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, MEDICS is a Christian ministry that uses healing ministry to build bridges to the hearts of the lost. Through physical healing with medical, dental, eye, and other services they have the opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His eternal healing.
Mission Society for United Methodists
Founded in 1983 by several United Methodist pastors, the society has grown to include 31 other nations on five continents working with over 3,500 nationals. Their strategy is to create self-reproducing, indigenous, discipling, Christian communities by mobilizing cross-cultural witnesses for Christ in partnership with nationals.
Mobile Missions International, Inc.
Mobile Missions International, Inc. brings together domestic relationships with international needs to form unique partnerships for world missions. They facilitate ministry by providing training and support to Christian non-profit organizations with emphasis on international mission projects and special needs efforts. Through God's provisions and partnerships their borders are expanding to minister and provide vitally needed resources throughout the world.
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM)
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries partners with Nazarene interests to facilitate ministries, which address the temporal as well as the spiritual needs of the economically disadvantaged. NCM brings the hope of Jesus to a needy world through providing for people's physical needs of food, clothing, and shelter. Additionally NCM offers long-term relief and development assistance in an effort to combat the root causes of poverty.
Serving in Missions (SIM)
Serving in Missions is an international, inter-denominational mission organization with more than 1,800 missionaries serving in more than 43 countries on five continents. The primary purpose of SIM is to facilitate local churches to send cross-cultural missionaries. SIM assists churches to set up mission boards with the hope that some of their missionaries may be dual members with SIM. They desire to be a church-planting mission and a mission-planting mission. SIM works closely with specialized missions in Bible translation, radio, development, evangelism, medicine, and aviation.
Southern Baptist
The International Mission Board (formerly Foreign Mission Board) is an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination, claiming more than 40,000 churches with nearly 16 million members.
