Committed to offering humanitarian and medical support to the oppressed, poor, and persecuted, we guide them toward Christ's love and the spiritual growth necessary to transform individuals, families, and communities.
Committed to offering humanitarian and medical support to the oppressed, poor, and persecuted, we guide them toward Christ's love and the spiritual growth necessary to transform individuals, families, and communities.
Far Reaching Ministries
Our Story
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In 1996, former U.S. Marine Wes Bentley founded Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) after serving as a missionary in war-torn regions of Sudan, including Bahr El-Ghazal, Western Equatoria, the Nuba Mountains, and Southern Kordofan. By 1998, FRM expanded its efforts to South Sudanese refugee camps, primarily in Kiryandongo, Uganda, bringing hope to thousands of orphans and widows affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Addressing physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, FRM became a beacon for those suffering from ethnic and religious cleansing.
Today, FRM operates in 39 of the world’s most dangerous nations, deploying over 500 team members to share the hope of Jesus, disciple believers, and intervene for those trapped in cycles of death, violence, and poverty under oppressive regimes.
Committed to alleviating suffering, FRM rescues and rebuilds lives affected by Christian persecution, abduction, violence, rape, and war-induced humanitarian crises. The ministry provides essential aid, combats child sex trafficking and organ harvesting, and offers medical care, food, and shelter. More importantly, it introduces people to the love and hope found in Jesus Christ.
FRM is also dedicated to planting underground churches, discipling believers, and equipping them to return to their communities as Gospel witnesses. Its frontline workers include military-embedded chaplains, pastors, doctors, and ministry leaders, all working to transform lives and nations for Christ.
Our Mission Objectives
- Fulfilling the biblical mandate that Jesus gave to all Christians to "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation" includes entering war zones, dangerous areas, and hardliner countries that are violently opposed to the Gospel message.
- Piercing the darkness with the light of the Gospel by offering emergency interventions to the weakest and most vulnerable, including rescue and relocation, food, temporary and long-term shelter, clothing, and medical care.
- To demonstrate faith through works by providing necessary things for the body—such as food, clothing, and shelter—in the name of Jesus Christ (James 2:16; James 2:18).
- To challenge and edify the body of Christ by making known the trials and needs of its members worldwide so that through prayerful support, we may remember those in prison as if we were there ourselves. Remember also those who are mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own body. (Hebrews 13:3)
Our mission at Far Reaching Ministries is to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the “uttermost parts of the earth”. We do this through several facets of ministry including the establishing of churches and Bible Schools. Far Reaching Ministries has developed the Christ for the Continent program to train and equip men from every tribe and tongue in order to reach the entire continent of Africa in this generation. Very few are willing to endure the hardships and dangers to impact this world for Jesus and to see the Gospel carried to the uttermost ends of the earth, but do not have the gifts or the calling to go themselves.
Our mission is to train and equip here and there, to train missionaries to go out and fulfill the calling on their lives and exercise the gifts given them by our Father in Heaven. By doing this, we can effectively train indigenous pastors to minister in their own country, establishing Bible teaching churches and schools across the entire continent of Africa.
Our mission is to minister to the afflicted, the starving, and the dying as well as bringing aid to their physical needs while making it a priority to meet their spiritual needs with the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our mission is to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the uttermost parts of the earth, making disciples and thus fulfilling the Great Commission Jesus commanded us to do in Matthew 28:19-20: And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Far Reaching Ministries is a ministry dedicated to the Lordship and service of Jesus Christ. Our greatest desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit and spread the Good News far and wide, even to the uttermost parts of the earth. We are not a denomination, nor are we opposed to denominations, as such. We believe and put a great emphasis on the systematic study of God’s Word, receiving the full counsel of God through reading and teaching the entire Bible.
We believe the true basis of Christian fellowship is God’s love and that being the one compelling motivation to go into every nation preaching and teaching the Word of God, making disciples and teaching them to observe all that the Bible teaches.
We believe the Bible to be the only infallible, inspired, authoritative Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:15-17).
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19; Ephesians 4:4-6).
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. (John 1:1-4; Matthew 1:23; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4, 4:15; Acts 1:11, 2:22-24; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit and that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. (Titus 3:4-7; Luke 24:46-47; Ephesians 2:8-9; John 14:6; Acts 4:12).
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life. (Galatians 5:16-18; Romans 8:9).
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. (Revelation 20:11-15; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57).
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the Church. (Ephesians 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 12:12,27).
We believe that the ministry of evangelism is a responsibility of both the church and each Christian. (Romans 10:9-15; Acts 1:8; Matthew 28:18-20; 1 Peter 3:15).
Far Reaching Ministries Aviation
In 2004, Far Reaching Ministries Aviation (FRMA) was established as an affiliate of Far Reaching Ministries. FRMA’s mission centers on guiding women and children through biblical discipleship while providing essential support to help them endure life’s challenges.
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