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.
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)
Far Reaching Ministries Aviation
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Far Reaching Ministries Aviation (FRMA) was founded by Vicky Bentley in 2004 and is a sister company to Far Reaching Ministries (FRM).
FRM and FRMA are evangelical Christian missionary and humanitarian 501(c)(3) organizations dedicated to providing humanitarian resources, relief, education, and sharing the fundamental Orthodox Christian Gospel with impoverished, deprived, uneducated, and persecuted individuals across various nations worldwide.
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