Our Crisis Response Network shares God’s love with victims of crises such as geopolitical conflicts and natural disasters.

• Housing Ukrainian Refugees: Our partners on the ground are building a housing complex for refugees.
• Feeding Africa: Through Operation Joseph, we gave seed to farmers in the Central African Republic at a time when food was scarce.
• Orphan Care: We also helped provide 1,800 orphans with literacy education and lunch every day across 41 schools.
• Earthquake Relief: We provided critical relief supplies, food, and housing to many hundreds of earthquake victims in Turkey. We also provided food and other relief supplies to over 40 families after an earthquake in Afghanistan.
• Prayer for Israel: Shortly after the conflict broke out, our initiative rallied 300 people throughout the Charis Fellowship to pray together on Zoom for a week.

The Church Equipping Network helps train believers in least-reached countries so they can become sustainable ministry leaders in their own regions of the world.

• Curriculum Development: We prepared a new Master of Missiology curriculum for African pastors which will begin in September 2024. We continue to adjust and develop our curriculum for training pastors through Africa Bible Institutes.
• Tool Development: We developed, tested, and adjusted different evangelistic and discipleship tools.
• Church Revitalization: Our staff was involved in church revitalization seminars and course development.
• Africa Conference: A highlight this year was an international conference in Kenya where Charis delegates were able to connect and prepare their next projects.

The Mobilization Services Network at Encompass identifies and prepares new missionaries, supports our global workers on the field, and resources our partners as we seek to take the gospel to the least reached together.

• New Mobilization Staff: Dave Pacheco, MaryAnn Barlow, and Malachi Saunders began serving as our newly-formed Mobilization Team in 2023. Their role is to help others investigate the Great Commission while discovering the part He has equipped them to play in missions.
• People Exploring Missions: We are seeing increases in the number of people taking steps toward missions, including 21 interns who were prepared last year and served this spring.
• Team Internships: We developed and launched a new way for people to explore missions within the context of small teams before committing to longer, individual assignments. The first team has successfully been sent to Japan where teammates actively engaged in ministry under the leadership of an experienced global worker.