International Needs

International Needs USA (IN Network USA) is a global partnership of Christian organizations transforming the lives of men, women, and children in a practical and holistic way. Since 1974, International Needs has been empowering dedicated Christian leaders to impact their own communities and countries. IN USA supports over 60 projects in 20 countries working around the world to reach people for Christ through local people, local leadership, and local organizations. Every program builds value into a community by nurturing permanent local capacity that is sustainable and practical. IN USA touches over 10,000 people each week, while maintaining its one single focus: winning men and women, boys and girls, to Jesus Christ.

Transformed lives and changed communities through the Power of Jesus Christ.

Goal One: Expand the financial and practical resources provided to our international partners in order for them to reach 1 million people with the Gospel.

Goal Two: Provide, within the International Needs Network, an additional 1,000 vulnerable children with access to educational assistance.

Goal Three: Monitor, measure & communicate the effectiveness of our programs, operations & communications by benchmarking our progress against best practices to develop a framework toward future decision making.

Across our Network we have developed a program called VDLF (Virtual Development and Learning Forum) where each month the key leaders from the organization convene online to discuss and learn best practices of individuals excelling in various aspects of our programmatic initiatives. As part of this forum our own leaders are also utilized to present case studies and best practices of programmatic and strategic areas in which they are known to excel.

Staff and board consistently engage in regular and systematic communication via text, email, digital marketing and phone conversations to advance and communicate the needs, events and impact of our ministry efforts. Utilizing externally planned events organized with our donor populations have also been a means to promote the work and causes of the organization. Regular planning and communications with our donors to collaborate and strategize how best to integrate International Needs within their own spheres of impact socially, professionally and corporately are a regular means of staff and board connections with those that both support the ministries and those that are actively engaged in ministry programs.

Due to the restricted nature of travel and person to person connection that came with the recent global pandemic, the lifeblood of connection between our programmatic/ministry partners and our financial supporters of those programs was severely curtailed. The personal connections of mission trips and ministry partner tours designed to promote and share the impact of the ministry was severely restricted. In response, International Needs adopted a regular strategy of Virtual Mission Experiences and Virtual Front Porch communications connecting financial supporters with the ministry programs they support were developed and implemented. In addition weekly digital updates presented via online platforms of web site and email marketing platforms were utilized to provide updates on programs, impacts and outcomes and new events were consistently shared. Also a strategy of using the web app Whats App as a platform in order for our ministry partners to more effectively reach and communicate with those populations they serve on a regularly basis even the mist of community level quarantines.