NEWS & STORIES
How to Write a Letter to Your Sponsored Child
Did you know that you can write letters and encourage your sponsored child anytime throughout the year by visiting your online portal? It is a simple way to stay in contact, build a relationship an...
Who Will Reach the Unreached?
At a recent training event, Jilo sat among a group of young men commissioned as missionary church planters just six months prior. Working with eight different denominations, over 200 of these trans...
The Gift of Hope
IRGIBE’S STORY Pure joy exudes from Irgibe! She lives in a world where women typically have very little to no control over their circumstances, but Irgibe was given the gift of hope. In the fall of...
What Only God Can Do
Our Missionary Church Planters serve as catalysts of HOPE in their communities. For the community, it is HOPE that drives them to seek out these leaders for prayer, and HOPE is what drives the lead...
Dream Chaser
MEET ESTHER Bright eyed and clever, Esther spends her days with her 7 siblings and father in Uganda. She is a smart little girl who dreams of becoming a doctor and access to a great education is he...
Children In Need of Loving-Kindness
We have just received word of several kids from Uganda who are in desperate need of sponsorship. They were selected as the poorest, most at-risk kids in the community. Child Sponsorship would chang...
Petros Network Women Extending Kindness
The hope we have in Christ is a powerful tool! This hope compels us to extend kindness and generosity that is unexplainable to the hopeless. It’s so powerful that we named our Women’s Program, T...
Extending Kindness Amid Persecution
Since June of this year, the political and spiritual unrest in Ethiopia has increased exponentially with at least 500 christians being killed for their faith. The targeted assault on Christianity i...
God’s Loving-Kindness Towards You
Written by Linda Noah, Petros Network Executive Director: My husband, Ray Noah, and I have been leading in our local church, Portland Christian Center, as well as overseeing the ministry of Petros...
Executive Director Announcement
A word from the Chairman of the Board, Sandra Cooper: I am pleased to announce the Petros Network Board of Directors has formalized the selection of Linda Noah as our Executive Director. An Uns...
For the Love of Women and Children
No one works harder than a mother with a starving child. The Covid-19 virus is affecting women differently than men and that is particularly true of women in the developing world whose primary role...
Two Hands of the Gospel—Myanmar Church Planters
“Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” James 2:17 The year 2020 is more than halfway through, with the remaining months looming with uncertainty. The amount of chaos and fear this y...
Loving God. Loving People. Together
LOVING GOD and LOVING PEOPLE When the disciples asked Jesus, “What is the greatest commandment,” he summed it up in one sentence to love God with your whole heart and love your neighbor as yourself...
Loving and Leading through COVID-19
LOVING GOD and LOVING PEOPLE THIS IS LOVE IN ACTION The global pandemic has impacted the areas we work among the least reached, and the impact is devastating. Petros Network leaders and health team...
Redemptive Lift — The Gospel Impact
Petros Network’s co-founder Ray Noah coined the phrase Redemptive Lift to describe the transformation we were witnessing in East Africa after equipping and sending Missionary Church Planters to ...
Our Covid-19 Response—Providing Soap and Education in Rural Africa
The Covid-19 virus doesn’t discriminate. It impacts the rich and the poor. Whereas some countries have better infrastructure to handle this pandemic, others struggle without resources and education...
Stories of Hope
In light of COVID-19 we wanted share with you some stories of HOPE and transformation. The women in The Tesfa Project—Women's Empowerment Program are transforming their communities and bringing...
TESFA Microgrant Savings Program
The TESFA Project in on a mission to break the cycle of poverty and chronic hunger among Ethiopia’s most vulnerable – impoverished widowed mothers – and offer a life of dignity and HOPE. The...
Gelane’s TESFA Story
Genane's sponsor had the opportunity to meet her on one of Petros Network's Life Impact Trips! Pictured above is Gelane and her sponsor in Gelane's home back in 2018. Genane's sponsor had the...
Beauty from Ashes
On our most recent trip this winter, we met in small groups with the 50+ women in the Petros Network Women — TESFA Project, a women’s empowerment project focusing on widowed mothers in rural vil...
Child Sponsorship Saves Lives
DURING THESE UNCERTIAN TIMES CHILD SPONSORHSIP PROVIDES: Nutritious Food— Our team has ensured that every family in our program will have nutritious food to get them through this storm. Medica...
COVID-19 Response
With your help, we can unleash the resources needed to better serve the at-risk rural communities we serve. March 19, 2020 We are hearing from our partners from the field as nation after nation is ...
From The Field | Myanmar Training
This is a picture of the courageous new Burmese Church Planters. There’s 26 of them. I am so impressed with their commitment and willingness to go into totally unreached villages to bring the Gos...
From The Field | Myanmar Update
We just completed our first day of training with the 71 Burmese Church Planters. Our team of 12 from the States were overwhelmed with the fortitude of these amazing men and women. A couple of the m...
Transformational Leadership in Ethiopia
In July 2019, we were invited to train the Executive Branch of the Ethiopian government in leadership development. When asked by a key Ethiopian leader, “What is the best leadership training?” ...
Back-To-School Party
It’s back to school time in Gojo, Ethiopia, for the boys and girls in our Child Sponsorship Program! Thanks to the continual support of our child sponsorship donors, our team was able to hand-del...
Opened Doors in Myanmar
Thank you to our partners at Vineyard Boise Christian Fellowship's Missions Department, i-61 ministries for putting together this incredible story of the movement in Myanmar. God recently opened th...
Living in HOPE, Even When It is Hard….
We are excited to share this next story of Negase Wokamale. She was so eager to be interviewed by our TESFA Project — Women's Empowerment team that she came and found us and waited patiently for ...
“Someone Believed In Me and Changed My Future”
"My name is Irgibe Korsa, I am 30 years old, and I live in Gojo, Ethiopia with my three children. We didn’t always live in Gojo. We used to be farmers and live in the countryside. My husband was ...
Misireki’s HOPE Story
In honor of Mother's Day, sponsor Misireki today and receive updates on her journey....
Does God Speak Today?
Three years ago, God prophesied that a team from around the world would come and equip the local church to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ across all of Borana, Ethiopia. Three years later, ...
A tale of two brothers
“I WANT TO BE A DOCTOR." It’s a common answer when we ask the orphans the age-old question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Each year the answers change and range from teachers t...
Borana Update
God has stirred our hearts to reach the unreached communities of Borana in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya by mobilizing and training 1,000 missionary church planters over 10 years! In June of...
7 Great Things That Have Happened (So Far) in 2018
Our sincere desire is to extend the heart of God to those who have never heard His name. And as we faithfully keep our focus on God's concern, He has been faithful and continues to fulfill His prom...
Global Summary
Petros Network’s mission is focused on what is at the core of God’s heart—the local church and reaching the unreached—and that is why this ministry has experienced such profound favor and f...
God Is At Work In South Sudan
SOUTH SUDAN is war-torn, dangerous and struggling country that desperately needs our prayers for peace. Each month we receive reports from our South Sudan Area Leader and our missionary church plan...
New Believers Desperate for Bibles
In North America Bibles lay abandoned on shelves, but in the areas Petros Network launches church planters, new believers are desperate to receive just one Bible. Petros Network also gives our Chur...
From Witch Doctor to Church Planter
When Juma was 7 years evil spirits identified him as a “Mukongozi” (diviner). He wore foreign clothes like goat skin. The spirits made it so he could not eat cooked things. Eating cooked food cou...
His Beloved Tattered Bible
“John is one of my dear leaders and a Pastor in our daughter church in Kaiti Kachonga, Eastern Uganda. The Bible is a Luganda version. It’s expensive to buy a Luganda Bible. For many years John was...
Meet Brehane
“I was sick and had not eaten in many days and I was trying to nurse my child, but my body could not produce any milk. I could see death in the eyes of my little girl as she lay limply in my arms. ...
Love Transforms: A story of forgiveness…
“I was struck with a machete on my left arm and in the face as I preached… After I was cut, they came and asked for forgiveness. Because I forgave them, they now follow Christ. They are active in o...
The Settlers
Recently I was looking at a group I follow on Instagram. It’s an organization that puts together short term missions trips for which people can get involved. They put up a map showing all of the ...
Educating Out of Poverty – Uganda
In spite of the hardships our Ugandan friends face, missionary church planters are planting churches and leading and loving in the name of Jesus. Redemptive Lift follows a church plant and we are e...
TESFA Special Needs: Meet Burtukan
As a Special Education teacher here in the US, I have the opportunity to teach and support children with Down Syndrome. So, it was a special privilege to meet Burtukan (Burtu for short) and her f...
Partnering with SportAid
USAid reports “Governments and private organizations have long been using sport as a tool in global development and humanitarian aid because of its ability to transform lives in unique and powerful...