About

We’re transforming communities around the world through God’s love in long-term, sustainable missions.

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

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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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

Meet 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.

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Testimonials

GFA World has become one of the more significant pioneer missionary agencies, with a good accountability structure… They are doing an excellent job.

Patrick Johnstone, Author, Emeritus of Operation World

The wonderful story of GFA World is happening in our day and should be told and studied until the Gospel is proclaimed to every nation and Christ returns. It is miraculous and inspirational but even more importantly it informs and reveals to the church how the Gospel can save people and transform communities. I am convinced that God is calling the Western church to wake up and learn from the church around the world and Revolution in World Missions is a gift from God in raising the confidence and effectiveness in mission.

Revd Canon John McGinley, Executive Director, National Myriad Programme

I love this book – it inspired me to dream bigger and go harder after Jesus!

Andy Hawthorne, OBE, Founder of The Message Trust

GFA World is not a movement, but a phenomenon. GFA has become one of the most significant mission organisations of this century.

Dr. George Verwer, Founder and former International Director of Operation Mobilisation

You need to read Revolution in World Missions. For a guy in our generation to be speaking these words—I don’t know that anyone else is saying them as clearly as he is. It’s a ministry that I not only endorse, but it’s the model of how I want to continue in ministry for the rest of my life.

Pastor Francis Chan, Author of Crazy love

Revolution in World Missions is one of the great classics of Christian literature. It is essential reading for those who desire to obey the mission of Jesus Christ. We get so used to apathetic and half-hearted ideas about missions… and then K.P.’s book turns our world upside down!

Rev. Dr. Paul Blackham, CEO, Biblical Frameworks, London

Revolution in World Missions is an extraordinary story of single-mindedness and sacrifice – combined with strategic thinking – that jolts the reader into believing that they too can be part of Christ’s mission to the nations.

Rev. Steve James, Former Rector, Holy Trinity Platt, Manchester

Reading Revolution in World Missions radically transformed my view on how to reach the lost. At the time I read the book I was seeking God’s will over becoming an overseas missionary. God really convicted me through the book and showed me how indigenous locally trained missionaries could advance his Kingdom so much more effectively. I am delighted to be able to sponsor missionaries through GFA and would encourage all Christians with a heart for the lost to read this book.

Paul Thomson, North Yorkshire

You cannot stop Jesus, That’s the message of the Bible. And it’s echoed in the pages of the book you’re holding. Setting out the thrilling story of how Christ’s love is transforming millions in Asia, Revolution in World Missions is both deeply humbling and wonderfully inspiring. Full of challenge, this book will call you to a joyful confidence that the crucified and risen Jesus is the Lord and Master of this world. I count it a huge privilege to be personally associated with the work of GFA. Be warned, Revolution in World Missions could change your life!

Rev. Dr. Stephen Nichols, Rector, All Saints, Lindfield

“George was among those incredibly rare believers who—like the Apostle Paul—could have said: “Follow my example, as I follow Christ’s.”

K.P. Yohannan

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.

News

National Missionaries

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Compassion Services

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Child Sponsorship

November 2023

She Wanted More

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National Missionaries

September 2023

A Couples Tragic Trail to Truth

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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

Medical Ministry

National Missionaries