Celebrating Impact in 2025 and a New Challenge

All for your Glory, Lord!

In 2025 alone, our partners reported 36,502 new believers and 4,425 new churches planted, bringing our cumulative reporting total from 1997 to 2025 to 617,142 new believers and 119,980 new churches planted among oral cultures. WOW! These figures are incredible and conservative, as we only receive approximately 80% of our follow-up partner evaluation reports each year. Some of our partners live and work in hostile or very remote regions and are unable to provide formal reports. We are seeking to advance the Gospel until all have been reached, All for your Glory, Lord!

There are so many that were lost before but have now been reached and engaged with the Gospel through oral Scripture engagement. Here are two of our featured SIU 2025 Annual Report stories, along with a new challenge from one of our supporting foundations.

Hungry for God’s Word

SIU is partnering with dynamic women leaders worldwide. Bridges for Women trainings have a huge impact in these hard-to-reach places. Here is a story of one such leader in Southeast Asia. Linh has been training Bridges for Women across her country for nearly 20 years. She travels alone to remote places to train tribal women, despite her ongoing battle with cancer and being watched closely by the authorities. At one training, she planned for 40 women to attend. However, word had spread, and when she arrived, nearly a thousand women were eagerly waiting for her! The women in these areas have very little access to ministry tools and are hungry for any Bible-based training that helps them reach their families and communities.

Image of God

During an SIU Bridges training among refugees, one participant shared that the Creation Story profoundly changed his view of marriage. He admitted that he had previously treated his wife as property. However, after internalizing the story of how God created both man and woman in His image, and how the woman was formed from the man’s rib, he came to recognize his wife’s dignity and value. He committed to honoring his wife as someone made by God and as part of himself.

What makes this discovery remarkable is that no one told him to treat his wife differently. Simply hearing the story of creation and understanding what God did in the beginning completely changed the way he viewed his wife and all of God’s creation.

A New Challenge for 2026

We are truly blessed to be associated with faithful, generous foundations. One of them has just challenged us with a matching grant of $30,000 for every new donor to SIU!

Historically and conservatively, each group of 20 trained leaders from our Bridges training events has led to 60 new believers and 12 new house churches within the first year!

Please share this opportunity with those you know who might be interested in joining our efforts to reach and engage the lost living in oral cultures. They can give here: Matching Grant Challenge 2026.

Finishing the Task

Our God is on the move! He is advancing His Kingdom among oral cultures. Thank you for being a part of finishing the task of the Great Commission that He has called us to.