GFA World: Transforming Communities
Empowering communities and bringing light to those in need through Christ-centered compassion
Serving as Christ’s hands and feet bringing hope and transformation to communities worldwide
Welcome to GFA World, founded by K.P. Yohannan in 1979, where compassion meets action in Africa and Asia. We empower national missionaries to share God’s love effectively. Through initiatives like clean water access, child sponsorship, and skills training for widows, we address poverty at its roots. Our programs transform lives and foster thriving communities, yet millions lack basic necessities. This drives our mission to expand outreach and partner with local believers. At GFA World, we believe Christ’s love changes lives, one community at a time. Join us in spreading hope through God’s love.
Empowering Impoverished Communities
Providing solutions to poverty while bringing transformation to communities.
Countless families face relentless poverty, deprived of food and healthcare. GFA World provides fishing nets, sewing machines, income-generating farm animals, and skills training to spark economic independence. Emergency relief teams distribute essentials like winter clothing, medicine, and emergency shelter, ensuring survival and recovery in crises. These acts of love empower families to thrive and communities to heal.
Understanding Poverty’s Causes
Explore and comprehend the problem of poverty that traps families and pervades entire communities.
Our Poverty Alleviation Efforts
Cultivating community transformation in impoverished areas through holistic development programs.
Supporting Marginalized Women
Ending isolation and inequality through education, skills training, and community support
Marginalized women often endure isolation and hunger. GFA World provides essentials like blankets and meals, coupled with skills training and community fellowship groups to foster independence. By demonstrating Christ’s love through practical aid, we restore their sense of worth. Every act—whether a warm coat from cold weather relief or kind word—affirms their value in God’s eyes.
Understanding Their Struggles
Understanding truths about the challenges faced by the suffering women who are marginalized by societies.
Our Empowerment Initiatives
Building bridges of hope for forgotten women through education and economic opportunities.
Providing Clean Water
Ending water scarcity and disease in impoverished communities
Over 2 billion people lack clean water, risking disease daily. GFA World drills wells and installs BioSand filters, providing safe water to villages across Africa and Asia. These “Jesus Wells” reduce illness and free women from long water-fetching journeys, empowering communities to thrive. Each project shares Christ’s love through practical care, transforming lives with every drop.
Exposing the Global Water Crisis
Unveiling the global water crisis to understand its impact on communities worldwide.
Our Clean Water Initiatives
Transforming communities through water access initiatives in underserved areas.
Providing Medical Ministry
Medical camps, leprosy care, and maternal health services for the underserved
Millions die yearly from preventable diseases like malaria and cholera due to lack of care. GFA World provides free medical camps offering checkups, medicines, and prenatal care. Mobile clinics reach remote villages, while health education prevents outbreaks. Through these efforts, we demonstrate Christ’s compassion, bringing hope and healing to vulnerable communities.
Our Medical Ministry Initiatives
Contribute in providing medical care access to empower communities and improve lives.
Proclaiming the Message of Christ
Training national missionaries to plant churches and serve communities with compassion and Good News
Countless people in Africa and Asia have yet to hear of Jesus’ love. GFA World trains national missionaries to serve their own communities with practical help—like clean water and education—while sharing Christ’s compassion and Good News. These local workers build trust through culturally relevant care, planting seeds of hope in hearts open to the Gospel’s transformative message.
The Need to Share God’s Love
Understand the Great Commission and the privilege in sharing the message of Christ’s love and redemption.
Our Initiatives to Share Christ
Support national missionaries who understand their culture best and are ready to share the message of Christ’s love.
Rescuing At-Risk Children
Ending child labor, early marriage, and abuse through education and community advocacy
Millions of children endure poverty, forced to labor instead of learn. GFA World provides schools, educational resources, supplies, nutritional support, and income-generating gifts, giving vulnerable youth the tools they need to rewrite their life stories. Education fosters resilience, creativity, and dreams—foundations that communities need to flourish. Together, we’re nurturing young leaders who will uplift future generations.
Understanding Risks to Children
Understanding the challenges and dangers children are exposed to, in order to guide our empowerment strategies.
Our Initiatives for Children
Empowering children through a multi-faceted and holistic developmental approach with Christ’s love.
GFA World is a legally recognized nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We pioneer national missionary work through clean water initiatives, helping widows and orphans, and transforming communities through God’s love. Christian Leaders Affirm Gospel for Asia’s Integrity and Credibility