Where are FMI Partners Located?
Click Below to learn more about each country we partner with:
Indonesia
Indonesia is home to rainforests, terraced rice paddies, vast coral reefs, large urban areas, and a ring of active volcanoes that make up its more than 18,000 islands – about 6,000 of which are inhabited.
More than 720 languages are spoken by its various indigenous tribes. The country is a former Dutch colony and ranks fourth-largest in population (right behind the US), and is the largest Muslim-dominated nation in the world; evangelical Christians make up less than 6% of the population.
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Pakistan
Pakistan is renowned for natural beauty — from its Arabian Sea coast in the south to the Himalaya Mountains in the north, but the nation also has a profound dark side. Pakistan is one of the top ten countries in which persecution and discrimination against Christians is most severe.
In this population which is 95% Muslim, Christians are a beleaguered minority; evangelicals make up less than 1% of the Pakistan’s citizens. Yet God’s Spirit knows no barriers, and many people are coming to saving faith in Christ through the ministry of our national partners who often maintain ministries in multiple cities and rural villages.
FMI also helps to maintain a network of safe houses for persecuted believers who have been abused and rejected by their families.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh is home to the eighth-largest population on the planet.
It has the equivalent of 50% of the US population crammed into a space the size of Iowa…and much of that area is crisscrossed by 800 rivers and tributaries. Ironically, in a country of so much water, about 20% of its homes are without clean drinking water.
Nearly 90% of Bangladeshis are Muslim, and the remaining 10% are almost all Hindus. Yet a thirst for spiritual truth is as strong as the thirst for sanitary water, and people are open to learning about Jesus.
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Türkiye
Türkiye is the gateway between Europe and the Middle East and a key strategic field for reaching into Central Asia.
Even though the majority of the New Testament’s pages were originally written to believers living in its ancient borders, Türkiye is considered home to the world’s largest population unreached with the Gospel. Among its 81 million people, there are very few Christian congregations, and many of those are small and established within the past several years.
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Kenya & Horn of Africa
Kenya sits at the base of the Muslim-dense nations which make up the ‘Horn of Africa,’ making it a strategic lighthouse for the Gospel across eastern Africa.
There are 42 linguistically distinct tribes across Kenya, some of which are only now about to receive the complete Bible in their own language for the first time. Many homes in the region where FMI’s partners serve have no access to electricity or running water, and conditions can best be described as “developing.”
While Kenya is a predominantly Christian nation (the Joshua Project notes that 48% of the population considers itself evangelical Christian), nominalism is rampant.
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Expansion to New Fields
With a model for ministry that adaptable to cultures around the world, FMI seeks to expand it partnership footprint in two ways. The first is to increase the number of the supported church planters in countries where we have already established leadership teams. The second is to increase the number of countries where we will develop partnerships.
Currently, FMI is considering expansion to three countries. Two are in the Arab world – one in North Africa and another in the Arabian Peninsula. A third country is in sub-Sahara Africa. Donations to our New Fields account will empower our staff to cultivate ministry relationships within these countries and identify qualified individuals who are available to comprise a national leadership team which will oversee and nurture a church planting network.