Global Fellowship

What Global Fellowship does

Global Fellowship is a US-incorporated 501(c)(3) non-profit religious organization (EIN 68-0214543) founded in 1989 and headquartered in Meadow Vista, California. The organization recruits, trains, and deploys cross-cultural missionaries and supports indigenous church planters serving unreached people groups, defined as populations in regions where less than 2% of the population is Christian. As of the source material, Global Fellowship supports over 524 missionaries across 38 countries spanning the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, North Africa, East Africa, Central America, and North America.

The organization's revenue model is a 100% pass-through donation structure: all donations designated to specific missionaries or ministry projects are forwarded entirely to the field, while administrative costs are covered separately through a dedicated Home Office Fund. All staff and missionaries raise their own financial support, meaning the organization operates with a largely self-funded workforce model. Donors contribute via the website, EFT, credit card, or mailed check. Programmatic offerings include the Church-Planters Training Project, South Asian Bible Academy, Missions Tech and Innovation Fund, Mosaic Projects, Vision 5:9 network initiative, and regional area directorates covering Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. A new strategic field office was established in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2024 to coordinate Southeast Asian operations.

The organization is governed by a board of directors and led by Co-Executive Directors Jeremy and Anne Beaumont (since 2019), with Don Oates as President, Mitchell Cooper as Director of Operations, and additional directors overseeing training, mobilization, and business development. Distribution and recruitment rely on the organization’s website, email newsletters, conferences, and word-of-mouth referral networks rather than paid advertising. Strategic partnerships include COMIBAM International for Latin American missions and Vision 5:9, a network connecting 180 mission agencies focused on Muslim peoples.

Name

Global Fellowship

Legal name

Global Fellowship Inc.

Website

https://globalfellowship.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Global Fellowship is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1989 that equips and deploys 524+ missionaries and indigenous church planters across 38 countries to plant churches among unreached people groups, operating under a 100% pass-through donation model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Christian Missionary and Church-Planting Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Missionary Training Colleges & Schools (EDAHAKAF), Faith-Based Social Services & Community Outreach (Food Pantries, Shelters, Counseling) (BPAGAJAG)

Keywords

• Christian missionary services
• Church planting support
• Missionary training programs
• Cross-cultural missions
• Unreached people groups

Headquarters

HQ city

Meadow Vista

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Global Fellowship operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization generating revenue entirely through tax-deductible donations from individuals, churches, and other charitable donors. Contributions are designated by donors to specific missionaries or ministry projects; 100% of designated gifts are passed through to the field. The organization raises administrative costs separately through a dedicated Home Office Fund.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Global Fellowship equips and supports local Christian leaders and cross-cultural missionaries to make disciples and plant churches among unreached people groups worldwide. It provides training, fundraising coaching, donor administration, field coordination, and missionary deployment, operating as a donation-funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Product overview

Global Fellowship operates as a missionary organization focused on church planting among unreached populations globally. Their product portfolio consists of program funding mechanisms and operational support services rather than a unified software platform. Key offerings include: the Church-Planters Training Project providing strategic missionary education; the Missions Tech and Innovation Fund offering technology resources for digital evangelism; the Chiang Mai Field Office serving as a strategic operational hub in Southeast Asia; and various regional project funds (General Fund, Home Office Fund, Vision 5:9 network, Mosaic Projects). The organization functions primarily as a fundraising and missionary coordination entity, directing 100% of donations to field operations while providing training, accountability, and logistical support to church-planting teams across 38 countries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 billion unreached people targeted globally — framing the scale of the problem the organization addresses
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Billy Graham's Web Counseling MinistryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Castro family (missionaries in Portugal) has worked with Billy Graham's web counseling ministry since 2010 to bring the Gospel into the lives of broken and downtrodden people through online engagement.
• COMIBAM (Cooperation Missions Iberoamerica)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOMIBAM is the Latin America Missions umbrella organization. Allan and Patricia Matamoros serve with COMIBAM's multinational team. Carlos Calderón also served with COMIBAM (International). Global Fellowship participates in the broader COMIBAM network focused on transforming Latin America from a mission field to a missions force.
• Greater European Mission (GEM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Castro family began ministry in Portugal working with an American team under Greater European Mission (GEM) before transitioning to independent Global Fellowship service in 1995.
• YWAM (Youth With A Mission)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCarlie Cooper spent a semester with YWAM before college, serving in Honduras and Costa Rica, prior to her involvement with Global Fellowship.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Greater European Mission (GEM): Greater European Mission plants churches among the least-reached peoples of Europe and the Mediterranean world. Directly comparable as a sending organization focused specifically on hard-to-reach European populations where <2% are Christian.
• Frontiers: Frontiers is a mission organization exclusively focused on unreached Muslim people groups, deploying teams to plant churches through indigenous movements. Closely comparable in strategic niche, unreached-people-group targeting, and church-planting methodology.
• Pioneers: Pioneers is a US-based interdenominational missions agency that plants churches among unreached people groups using team-based missionary deployment. Highly comparable in mission focus, geographic targeting (<2% Christian regions), and church-planting model to Global Fellowship.
• SEND International: SEND International is a faith-based mission agency that plants churches among unreached peoples with cross-cultural missionary teams. Comparable in scope, geographic targeting, and emphasis on indigenous leadership development.
• ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism): ABWE is a US-based faith mission that sends church-planting missionaries across dozens of countries, particularly in Asia. Comparable in support-raising model, donor-funded structure, and church-planting mission focus on unreached regions.
• Christar: Christar is a US-based church-planting mission agency focused on unreached people groups in Asia and the Middle East. Operates a similar support-raising model and pursues church-planting movements in areas with minimal Gospel witness.

Regional players

• COMIBAM International: COMIBAM is the Ibero-American missions umbrella network that mobilizes Latin American missionaries for global deployment. Functions both as a partner and as a counterpart organization to Global Fellowship, since Global Fellowship staff participate in its Latin America network.

Broad incumbents

• SIM (Serving In Mission): SIM is a large interdenominational mission organization with a global footprint and century-long history of church planting in difficult-to-reach areas. Highly comparable organizational scale, geographic reach, and church-planting mission.
• Operation Mobilisation (OM): Operation Mobilisation is one of the largest evangelical mission organizations globally, operating across more than 100 countries. While broader in scope than Global Fellowship, OM ships and deploys missionaries to unreached areas using a comparable volunteer/support-raising culture.
• YWAM (Youth With A Mission):

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@decksinczech
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/global-fellowship-org

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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