The 1% Pivot
Love SHOWS UP · THE 1% PIVOT
One Penny Can Reach the Unreached.
Of every dollar given to Christian causes, only half a penny reaches the 3.58 billion people who have never once heard the name of Jesus. We're asking for the other half.
Half a Penny.
Here's the math on giving in the West: for every dollar given to Christian causes, about a nickel, five cents, goes toward global missions. Of that nickel, only half a penny reaches the people who have never once heard the name of Jesus.
Here's why. Only 1 out of every 30 missionaries sent out goes to the unreached. 29 go where the church already exists. One missionary, with half a cent, being asked to reach 3.58 billion people.
We think that's a travesty, and it dishonors Jesus, who told us to make disciples of every people group. Not some. Every one.
Clandestine training centres
Three active centres in the region preparing local leaders for church planting and discipleship in restricted-access areas.
Unreached People Groups
7,400 People Groups remain unreached. 29 of 30 missionaries go to already-reached groups. We go where the need is greatest.
House church networks
Close to 4,000 churches in our network — organic, locally-led, and multiplying into communities no outsider could access.
Gifts reach the field
Near-zero overhead. Trusted indigenous partners, built over 23 years, ensure your gift moves — not sits in an office.
The 1%.
Here's the good news: we have a solution. We call it the 1%, one penny of every dollar, redirected to reach the people who have never heard. That's the gap we're asking you to help close.
What Your Penny Is Already Doing
Over 23 years, this network has planted 15,000+ churches across 12 countries, reaching 49 unreached people groups. Not one big church. Fifteen thousand small ones, multiplying.
In Iran, one stream is now 14 generations deep, disciples making disciples making disciples, present in all 31 of Iran's provinces and now targeting all 491 counties. In Turkey, the leaders coaching this movement are expanding from 6 cities to 17 by year end. Thirty local trainers, Iranians training Iranians, area already spreading out across the country.
“Our hope is that a day will come when we can share the Word of God freely in the cities of Iran, without fear.”
— Iranian Church Leader
$600 Gets One Leader Out, Trained, and Home Again.
This movement is growing faster than it can train. Right now, roughly 1,000 believers inside Iran are ready for a week of hands-on training: sharing their testimony, mapping who to reach next, gathering new believers into the small, reproducing house churches that have already planted 15,000 churches across this network.
The catch is geography. You can't train inside Iran, so we airlift people out to Istanbul or hubs across Central Asia for a few days, then send them home to make disciples and plant churches.
A wonderful problem, and a fundable one: about $600 gets one leader out, trained, and home again. Airfare is most of it. They cook their own meals and sleep on couches, floors, and the odd blow-up mattress. Zero frills. Every dollar does exactly what it says.
Would you become an Airlift Partner? $600 sponsors one leader's whole trip: training that turns into a house church, that turns into more disciples, that turns into more house churches.
Become an Airlift Partner
Can't do the full $600? Any amount goes straight into this fund. 100% of designated gifts go exactly where you send them.
This is the 1% made specific: your penny, turned into one leader, one training, one movement multiplying because you showed up.