We at Praise International are committed to supporting, equipping and training pastors and evangelists in third world countries for the work of ministry. Our prayer is that by providing this assistance to those who have dedicated their lives to the service of Jesus Christ, we'll be able to faithfully and accurately present His Word to all who will hear. 

Our organization is called Jojo's Sanctuary in honor of a little boy I knew who died as the result of child abuse in 2016. Our program works to educate, protect and empower vulnerable children, families and communities in Northern Thailand. We do this by working with local leadership to equip and educate them about child protection in their community, implement a family strengthening program called Keeping Families Together and in January 2018 will open the first foster home in the country to provide short term emergency care for children in crisis. 

The Christians of Uganda are making great headway in sharing the good news with their people, winning many of them to Christ. However, this explosion of conversions has fomented a crisis in the churches as” there are not enough mature leaders to disciple all the new believers. The equipping of pastors and workers to meet this crisis has become the greatest challenge facing the church of Uganda.

For the past 28 years Skip and Ruth Sorensen have focused their ministry on leadership training, teaming with national leaders on several fronts.

Christar is an evangelical Protestant church planting mission, and Christar missionaries in Japan are asking God to change the world, and are working to change Japan, one person at a time. The vision of Christar Japan is to see growing networks of indigenous churches that are reproducing and transforming Yamaguchi prefecture with the Gospel. The mission of Christar Japan is to glorify God by cooperating with each other and the Japanese Christian community for the purpose of proclaiming the Gospel and establishing networks of reproducing, indigenous churches in Yamaguchi prefecture.

Compassion in Action has constructed and operates an elementary and secondary school in Ciudad Dario, Nicaragua called Dario Christian Academy. We provide an outstanding elementary and secondary Christian education for as many students as possible in Dario where, due to poverty, local resources are not currently available to accomplish this on their own. This includes opportunities to develop talents and gifts in art, music, use of technology; and an inclusion program for special-needs students.