At The North Church, we have a group of people that assist the elders in preparing, sending, and caring for our global partners. The team meets to hear from global partners on home assignment or to evaluate prospective partners who have completed the Sending Pathway. Members of our GO team have a heart for supporting global partners in a significant way and have had cross-cultural experience themselves.

A Barnabas Team is a small group of 6–12 committed people who come together to care for a global partner or global partner family. The support and encouragement takes a variety of forms as they strive to help meet physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. It is a group of people with whom the global partner can be open and honest, allowing them to see his or her needs and to share in successes and defeats.

We use prayer calendars to pray for one global partner unit or unengaged people group each week. If you are interested in knowing more about our global partners, this is an excellent resource to help you know where they are and what they are doing. 

The Global Diaconate (GD) exists to strategically steward the resources of our church to serve the poorest of the poor around the world. The aim of this committee is to partner with our global partners and other trusted connections to address poverty and crisis issues on a larger scale by disbursing strategic financial grants to ministries in the name of Jesus Christ.

2026 Quarter 2 Gifts:

• Our global partners in Thailand are working with the Open Bible Stories project to provide translations of Bible stories. This grant is to be used to provide stipends for the local workers who are taking time off from their normal work to check the language in biblical training material that is to be printed in local dialects.

• We provided a grant to trusted partners in South Asia for nutritious snacks for the children that attend preschools in remote locations of the region. These preschool programs equip and empower local women to teach boys and girls from their remote and illiterate villages to read and write in their own languages.

• Makassar, Indonesia is a crossroads city for refugees from many countries including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and the Rohingya people from Myanmar. Our North Church global partner in the area is working with Makassar City Blessing Church in Myanmar to provide essential humanitarian aid including food, clothing, supplies and small supplemental cash assistance to refugees participating in their congregation and Bible studies.