Betenbough’s large scale giving is by invitation only, and applications are only accepted every two years. These gifts are usually $50,000 or more. We build a relationship with each ministry that applies, assessing their organizational health and alignment with our purpose. The application process typically lasts two to four months and is quite involved. The team making the final decision relies on healthy conversation, in-depth questions, and the Holy Spirit to guide them in peace and unity.
Amazon Outreach – $300,000
Amazon Outreach mobilizes mission teams to assist Brazilian churches in making disciples by sharing the love of Jesus along the Amazon River Basin. This grant allowed the ministry to purchase 2 new engines and 1 generator plus cover the labor for their new aluminum boat, which should be completed in 2025.
Good News Production International (GNPI) – $40,000
GNPI creates relevant media to proclaim the Good News and empower Jesus followers to do the same. This grant went to produce and distribute “The Story of the Unbound,” a documentary meant to prompt questions about the nature of Christian faith in non-believing Africans while also inspiring renewed fervor for the African church.
Bethany International – $101,400
Bethany takes the church to populations where it doesn’t exist. This grant 1) funded training for Next Gen church planters, 2) built six homes for farm employees, 3) built six homes for Muslim converts, 4) funded a weekly clinic targeting Muslim people groups east of Nairobi, and 5) provided high school education to twenty-five students who work at the farm.
EMIT – $109,400 *New partnership
EMIT transforms nations by developing leaders. They provide holistic development of influential leaders to increase their effectiveness, transforming every segment of society. This grant developed and printed the final modules for their youth program, trained school chaplains, and launched pilot projects in forty-six Tanzanian schools.
The Kings Village Ghana – $150,000 *New partnership
The King’s Village Ghana provides quality healthcare, education, water, sanitation, and social and economic intervention services for poverty alleviation in northern Ghana. This grant constructed a building with classrooms, an office, and a staff room for Christian education in rural northern Ghana.
KI Igreja de Cristo $70,000 *New partnership
KI Igreja de Cristo connects young people from underserved communities to Christ through sports like volleyball, basketball, soccer, and handball. This grant built a multipurpose outdoor covered court for reaching children in the local community of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Betel UK – $350,000
Betel UK offers an eighteen-month program to ex-offenders and the addicted then reintroduces the graduates to society. This grant helped add on to an existing property, creating four apartments for reconnected families learning how to function as a healthy and whole unit. The funds also purchased a minibus, a truck with a tilt bed, a set of tools for the property and facilities team, and new gardening tools.
Mission Lazarus – $275,968
Mission Lazarus takes a relationship-driven approach to serve in Honduras and Haiti. This grant covered a mobile health clinic, scholarships for kids to attend the Lazarus Academy, a Land Cruiser for the pastoral team, surgical procedures for community members, and travel to a Kingdom Leadership Workshop.
Operation Deployed – $50,000 *New partnership
Operation Deployed enhances the morale and welfare of service members stationed away from home by providing thoughtfully curated care packages through military chaplains. This grant purchased care package items such as energy drinks, Mission Lazarus coffee, BBQ grills, etc. to be sent to our deployed military members.
El Centro Church – $155,004 *New partnership
El Centro is a thriving church in the central valley of San Jose. They operate a girls rescue home, an at-risk daycare, and a state-sponsored orphanage/temporary home for children removed from abusive homes. This grant updated the electrical infrastructure and renovated the elevator for the daycare.
Enabled Healthcare – $100,000 *New partnership
Enabled Healthcare is a holistic community development group that empowers & mobilizes communities in north India through health, disability inclusion, education, mental health support, and more. This grant provided funding for livelihood programs for widows in poverty. These programs include agricultural-based training, health education, animal husbandry, and assistance with the education and support of their children.
All4One (SportQuest) – $173,608
All4One strengthens families through adventure and sport by promoting a biblical worldview and clear family values in communities across the globe. This grant was used for leadership and program development, new CRM software, Family & Arise Summits, a truck, equipment and supplies, and a cargo trailer.
Mission Resource Network (MRN) – $50,000 *New partnership
MRN multiplies healthy leaders to disciple the unreached and underserved people groups of the world, transforming lives with the Good News of Jesus. This grant was for 1) bi-annual initiative-wide strategy meetings for all their disciplemakers working with unreached Muslim groups, 2) launching new teams of Iranian workers into Turkey & Iran, and 3) launching Uzbek leaders to direct a network of workers in the 5 “Stans” of Central Asia.
Narrow Gate Foundation – $150,000
Narrow Gate, based in Williamsport, TN, educates, inspires, and empowers Christian discipleship by equipping and training young men, developing business discipleship platforms, and serving the church locally and globally. This grant purchased a fifteen-passenger van, replaced and bullet-proofed a property truck, and provided repairs on the current fifteen-passenger van.
New City Kids Foundation – $50,000 *New partnership
New City Kids Foundation provides Christian leaders in developing countries an effective way to create trauma-informed, self-sustaining, and life-transforming youth ministries. This grant was used toward a new center in Cape Town, South Africa.
Tabuk Refuge of Hope – $179,544 *New partnership
Tabuk Refuge of Hope is a home for girls who are victims/survivors of abuse and trafficking. They provide therapeutic and rehabilitative services in a Christ-centered environment to holistically empower their residents. This grant expanded a fifteen-bed home to a fifty-bed home.
Acts Community – $112,266 *New partnership
Acts Community, based in Amarillo, TX, creates a collaborative space for families, children, and seniors to experience wholeness through physical, emotional, and spiritual support. This grant built out an afterschool program that trains underserved kids with 107 Golf Academy, an Innovation Art Center focused on digital art and content creation, and a Girls Who Game program that develops STEM skills and leadership (including coding, computation, and critical thinking).
Heart for Africa – $89,249 *New partnership
Heart for Africa brings hope to Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) through orphan care and education, while decreasing poverty and eliminating hunger. This grant was used to purchase a five ton refrigerated truck to export crops.
Adventures in Missions (AIM) – $50,000
AIM raises up lifelong workers for the harvest through high quality, hands-on discipleship with a missions experience that students can glean from the rest of their lives. This grant went toward covering the remaining costs for a new permanent housing project in Lubbock, TX.
Family Legacy – $80,000 *New partnership
Family Legacy serves and educates vulnerable and orphaned children in Zambia by empowering them to live out their God-given potential. This grant is for sustaining their trades pilot program at three of their Legacy Academies in anticipation of expanding to their other centers.
Christian Relief Fund (CRF) – $69,000
The Christian Relief Fund works with vulnerable children, helping them receive an education and develop intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially. CRF also drills water wells in Kenya. This grant will go toward construction projects, including a community/rescue center in Kenya and a feeding center in Honduras.
