Why Churches Partner with Petros Network
We believe the local church is God’s primary vehicle for transformation in the world.
Petros Network is not a program to add—it’s a pathway for churches to engage global mission with clarity, integrity, and lasting impact. We work through:
Indigenous Leaders
called from within their own communities.
Church Planting
that multiplies disciples, not dependency.
Gospel + Compassion
lived together through the local church.
Sustainability
for new churches to remain strong long after support ends.
This allows your church to participate meaningfully in what God is doing among the unreached—without exporting Western models or short-term fixes.
Your Role in the Mission
Our goal is to help you partner and engage in the Great Commission in a way that is biblically faithful, relationally healthy, and globally effective.
Choose Your Journey:
Petros Network doesn’t compete with your church’s vision, it helps extend it.
Begin Your Journey
Whether you’re just exploring or ready to engage, we’re here to listen and help you discern the best next step for your church.
Fill out this form to help start the conversation, and we’ll reach out within 48 hours—no commitment required.
Your Church is Supported Through Mobilization
When you partner with us, Petros Network equips your congregation to understand the Great Commission and their role in it. We walk with you every step of the way—providing support for pastors and church leadership teams in a number of ways:
A Church Engagement Kit
(practical and ready to use)
Pastoral Resources
(sermon help, slides, videos, mission moments)
On Mission Engagement Tools
(clear communication)
Impact Reporting
(front-line, field updates)
Strategic Planning
(helping your church engage consistently over time)
What Makes This Different
Church planting through Petros Network is led by indigenous leaders.
This is how gospel movements grow from the inside out
This is not growth for growth’s sake.
It is faithful, accountable multiplication rooted in Scripture.
The scale of need for exponential church multiplication demands low maintenance, robust, collaborative partnership! For this reason, I’ve worked personally alongside Petros Network because these friends also display the breadth of Vineyard values!
Petros Network is everything right about global missions: full of integrity, wisdom, and faith to see Evangelical churches planted where there is no gospel witness.
How God’s Kingdom works — small beginnings, unlikely sources, invisible activity, irresistible growth — that is the Petros Network story.
Dr. Ray Noah, Co-Founder
HI, THERE.
We’re Dr. Ray & Linda Noah.
Founders of Petros Network.
Linda and I have been serving in pastoral ministry for over forty years and, for the past twenty, have planted churches in East Africa.
The success of our church planting efforts led us to form Petros Network in 2012. This ministry is dedicated to planting churches among unreached people groups and equipping these churches and leaders to be catalysts of transformation in their communities.
HOW PETROS NETWORK STARTED
In 2002, the Blair Foundation, led by Charles Blair, was contacted by the president of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. He believed the Gospel was the hope of his region and, with the help of trained leaders and energized local churches, it would bring spiritual, social, and economic transformation.
Within a few months of that important conversation, Ray Noah became president of the Blair Foundation and worked alongside Charles, his mentor and friend, to bring to life the dream of transforming Africa. Miraculously, within two years, they raised enough money to launch 1,000 churches in rural Ethiopia. Not long after, Charles became ill. Ray and Linda Noah continued efforts and formed Petros Network in order to launch and disciple 1,000 church planters in Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia.
Today, Petros partners with denominations and organizations to launch efforts in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Myanmar, training and empowering a network of in-country leaders serving in underserved, unreached communities.
The impact is exponential. Click to view our impact to date.
How God’s Kingdom works — small beginnings, unlikely sources, invisible activity, irresistible growth — that is the Petros Network story.
Dr. Ray Noah, Co-Founder