Through large scale giving, Betenbough Companies partners with ministries making a lasting Kingdom impact all over the world. Applications are accepted every two years by invitation only, and these gifts are typically $50,000 or more. Each partnership begins with relationship, as we take time to understand the ministry’s health, vision, and alignment with our shared purpose. The application process, which often spans two to four months, is intentionally thorough and prayerfully led. Our team seeks wisdom through conversation and discernment, trusting the Holy Spirit to guide, bring peace, and preserve unity as we give where the Lord is already at work.
Africa Inland Mission International (new ministry partner) – $52,500
Africa Inland Mission is passionate about seeing the worship of Jesus Christ spread among Africans around the globe through individual lives fully committed to Him and through Christ-centered churches. This grant went to Project Madagascar, providing gasoline to reach villages with the Jesus Film, curriculum and supplies for 900 school children, clothing for children, and love offerings for volunteer teachers.
Asian Partners International – $200,000
Asian Partners International addresses the needs of the most vulnerable populations in North India by meeting community needs, developing leaders, empowering women, caring for children, and providing disaster relief. This grant expanded their Business for Ministry project, increased the number of students for each of their training schools, rescued and restored homeless children, and hosted global church planting conferences in Varanasi, India.
Ateiku Christian Ministry (new ministry partner) – $80,000
Ateiku Christian Ministry makes disciples while lifting rural families out of poverty in rural Ghana by providing clean water. This grant purchased a water drilling rig and the supporting trucks. The ministry will use this equipment to become more sustainable as they drill wells for hire to help cover the cost of drilling free wells in communities that need them.
The Bucket Ministry – $550,000
The Bucket Ministry provides clean, safe, drinking water and shares the Living Water in places with limited access to both. This grant will provide water filters, medicine, and ministry to 10,377 homes in the Kawangware Slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Changing Lives (new ministry partner) – $100,000
Changing Lives offers supportive housing, daily meals, life skills training, and community connections to facilitate residents’ recovery from homelessness. This grant will make structural repairs to the housing facility in Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil; provide bedding, clothing, and food for residents, purchase a classroom projector, and make vehicle repairs.
“Betenbough has blessed the ministry of CL tremendously! Thank you all for your faithfulness to the call that God has given you! Thank you for using the work of talented hands and minds to further the Kingdom of God around the world! Peace to your homes!” -Mark Kaiser, Changing Lives
Children’s Camps International (new ministry partner) – $246,000
Children’s Camps International introduces millions of young people to Jesus, training them to grow deep in their relationship with Him. This grant funded a new Bible camp in India that will host 300 camps per year, allowing more than 30,000 children to attend.
Christian Ministries in Africa (CMIA) – $299,627
CMIA is a bible-believing, non-denominational, independent mission that is reaching out with the love of Christ to the people of Africa. This grant funded an engineering project to prevent flooding on the far back piece of the CMIA five-acre compound and drilled a new 400-meter borehole in Langata.
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Circle Urban Ministries (new ministry partner) – $250,000
Circle Urban Ministries develops partnerships that help create safe and productive neighborhoods where people can thrive in Chicago’s West Side. This grant renovated a 10-unit apartment building to be used as a transitional residence for single moms after completion of a one-year substance abuse program.
De Shelter (new ministry partner) – $130,676
De Shelter is a community hub that houses a church, daycare, food pantry, and kitchen in Nort Hageland. They provided disaster relief to refugees from Ukraine, Poland, and Israel. This grant renovated a community space used to prepare and share community meals and meet other social needs. It also converted an apartment into four meeting spaces.
“We are still working very hard on de Shelter. We hope to finish it before Christmas so we can use that area to host more people. Two weeks ago, we had a baptism service where four young people gave their lives to the Lord. Three out of four were non-believers just 1.5 years ago in a non-Christian family. They came to church, and God did an amazing job in their lives. Kind regards from the whole team.” -Ilja Visee, De Shelter
Empower-One – $100,000
Empower-One trains and supports local church leaders to plant churches in the hard places of Africa. This grant provided two water systems on properties that already have a church established.
ESPA (Education, Community, Partnership, Activation) Foundation (new ministry partner) – $200,000
The ESPA Foundation provides assistance to foster families and offers widely developed humanitarian aid (in cooperation with GAiN Poland). This grant will renovate their current building and construct a second warehouse and loading dock.
Good News Productions International (GNPI) – $50,000
GNPI creates relevant media to proclaim the Good News and empower Jesus followers to do the same. This grant will fund a 12-month initiative in India creating short videos and podcasts in three languages.
GoServe Global (new ministry partner) – $35,000
GoServe Global provides essential humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable communities, sharing God’s love by delivering hope globally. This grant will be used to construct a birthing center in Liberia that includes a waiting facility, peace hut, bathroom facilities, and incinerator for disposing of placentas.
Joy Church (new ministry partner) – $120,000
Pastors Tomasz and Nancy Ropiejko lead Joy Church in Gdansk, Poland. This grant will be used to transform a former shipyard production hall into a multifunctional venue which will serve as a meeting place for the church and a tool to reach the city.
Lubbock Dream Center – $400,000
The Lubbock Dream Center is building stronger families, restoring hope, and inspiring dreams in Lubbock, Texas. They desire to see hearts and minds transformed by the Word of God and by the love and acceptance of the body of Christ. This matching grant will go toward a 7,800 sq. ft. facility that will double the size of their GED testing center, add multi-purpose classrooms, expand the food pantry, launch a clothing boutique, and add a 5,000 sq. ft. warehouse where large and bulk donations can be received and stored.
Manna Worldwide – $273,500
Manna Worldwide rescues children from the grip of poverty. This grant will be used to renovate and equip a third social-enterprise cafe (Mango Tree Coffee Shop in Colorado) whose profits support global projects, build seven classrooms for a Christian school in Cambodia, complete a mandated expansion for a growing Christian school in Kenya, and outfit a new clinic serving marginalized communities in Romania.
The Micah Project – $45,000
The Micah Project is a place of freedom, family, and a future in Christ for young men who have lived through unimaginable hardship in Honduras. This matching grant will help construct classrooms and bathrooms plus provide classroom furniture and equipment.
Morning Star Development (new ministry partner) – $180,539
Morning Star Development empowers individuals and transforms communities in Afghanistan. Following the example of Nehemiah in the Bible who served faithfully under a pagan king, they provide excellent services to the Afghan people, thereby creating opportunities to be Christ’s ambassadors in a country with limited opportunities to evangelize. This grant will support that mission by offering life-saving birthing skills, nutrition, and drug rehabilitation.
Serving Workers for the Harvest (new ministry partner) – $100,000
This organization empowers Gospel workers, removing every barrier so the Word runs unhindered to the unreached. They provide theological training, strategic resourcing, and compassionate relief in the harvest fields so that missionaries can focus on reaching the unreached with the Gospel. The grant provided educational supplies, food, and clothing to pastors in relief camps in Manipur, India. Some funds also went to local churches in Nepal for food, clothing, blankets, and medicine needed after the landslides. In addition, it provided relief resources to flood-displaced people in Chad and supported Sudanese refugees moving to Chad.
Vapor Ministries – $241,950
Vapor Ministries brings life to communities dying from extreme poverty by providing medical care, food, and clean water. They support discipleship soccer leagues as a means for reaching out with the Gospel. They also offer education, business training, agricultural initiatives, and gainful employment, all while spreading the good news of Jesus. This grant provided a 4-bedroom home for a Vapor employee and family.
Youth with a Mission Liberia – $35,000
YWAM Liberia focuses on training (through Discipleship Training Schools) and hospitality to transform the lives of students, encouraging them to become leaders. This grant purchased a used 4×4 SUV to be used as a rental when visiting groups, pastors, trainers, and missionaries visit.
As of December 4, 2025, large scale gifts for 2025 came to a total of $3,689,792!
