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.
A Clear Pathway for Church Engagement
Churches partner with Petros Network in different ways—because God stirs different callings in different congregations. There is no hierarchy here. Just alignment.
your church can engage through:
Our goal is to help your congregation engage the Great Commission in a way that is biblically faithful, relationally healthy, and globally effective.
How We Support Your Church
We don’t just invite churches to participate—we walk with you every step of the way. Petros Network supports pastors and church leadership teams with:
Pastor-to-pastor alignment and guidance
Ready-to-use resources (sermon help, slides, videos, mission moments)
Prayer and congregation engagement tools
Clear impact reporting and field updates
Strategic planning to help your church engage consistently over time
Our goal is not just global impact—but a partnership that strengthens your church as your people grow in generosity, discipleship, and mission.
What Makes This Different
Church planting through Petros Network is led by local leaders, not outside missionaries.
Indigenous church planters:
Speak the
heart language
Understand the culture
Live among their people
Know the cost of following Jesus
Because leadership comes from within, churches take root quickly and multiply naturally—often in places where outside leadership cannot remain due to persecution, instability, or cultural barriers.
this is how gospel movements grow from the inside out
Churches are planted with the expectation that they will disciple believers, raise leaders, & multiply.
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.”
Next Steps For Pastors & Churches
There are several ways to walk alongside what God is doing through church planting:
EXPLORE
CHURCH PLANTING
Want to dig deeper into how churches are planted and multiplied among the unreached?
BECOME A
GOSPEL LIFTER
Invest through church planting shares—a simple, tangible way to help send leaders who go, remain, and multiply.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
TALK WITH US
We’d love to listen, answer questions, and help you discern the next steps for your church.
We are grateful to walk this road together—leader by leader, church by church, community by community.
How God’s Kingdom works — small beginnings, unlikely sources, invisible activity, irresistible growth — that is the Petros Network story.
– Ray Noah
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.
Currently in five countries, the results of the Redemptive Lift Cycle keeps multiplying.
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.
– Ray Noah