Who We Are

When Help and Hope Combine, Lives are Changed

Powered by the church and centered on the gospel, Send Relief equips believers like you to meet real needs, serve your community, and share the hope of Christ.

Whether you pray, give, go, or grow, every act of compassion becomes a living witness to the gospel. Together, we strengthen vulnerable communities and respond to crises in Jesus’ name, from your neighborhood to the nations.

Our Focus Areas

In strategic areas of need, we partner with churches like yours and believers like you to respond. Together, we commit to long-term solutions that reflect Christ’s love and advance the gospel.

Strengthen Communities

Engaging with churches and ministries to bring sustainable change through clean water, education, community health, and other solutions that support sustainable, gospel-centered transformation

Care for Refugees

Walking alongside forcibly displaced families with practical support and Christ-centered care as they rebuild their lives in new communities

Protect Children and Families

Supporting churches as they strengthen family-based care for vulnerable children and support those who foster, adopt, or care for at-risk families

Fight Human Trafficking

Equipping believers to prevent exploitation and help survivors find freedom, restoration, and lasting hope in Christ

Respond to Crisis

Supporting churches to respond quickly and effectively when disaster or conflict strikes—at home and around the world

United in Purpose

Serving Together For The Gospel

Through the partnership of IMB and NAMB, your support and service open doors for the gospel at home and around the world.

Partner with churches across North America to plant churches, support pastors, and serve communities with compassion.

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Join a global network of missionaries and local believers to bring the gospel to the nations through sustainable, long-term presence.

Impact Testimonials

Transforming Lives Through Christlike Compassion

“Hospitality really does open up doors for the gospel. Conversations we never could have had happened because of these burgers and us knocking on doors.”

Pastor Jarrian Wilson
Serve Tour Volunteer

“To know there are people that we haven’t met, but they believe in the mission, and they’re praying for us, it’s heartbreaking, in a good way.”

Qusai Mahmud
Chicago Ministry Center Director

“We never imagined we would own a house again. We are incredibly happy. We thank the donors, and we thank God.”

Mother
Myanmar Earthquake Survivor

“They told me it would be difficult for my child to walk due to his condition, but thanks to God, with all the vitamins, help, and support, my child walked before the month was over.”

Mother
Guatemala

“I just got rejuvenated. Serve Tour reminded me this is what I’m called to.”

Pastor Steve Brown
Serve Tour Volunteer

“As we’re meeting the physical needs, we’re able to have conversations around the spiritual needs.”

Mike Domke
IMB Missionary, Ukraine

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Ministry Centers

Send Relief Ministry Centers serve as hubs for local outreach, and hands-on mission engagement. Through these centers, churches and volunteers come alongside communities to provide care, training, and gospel witness.

Explore

Ministry Centers

Send Relief Ministry Centers serve as hubs for local outreach, and hands-on mission engagement. Through these centers, churches and volunteers come alongside communities to provide care, training, and gospel witness.

100% of your gifts go to the field.

When you give to Send Relief, 100% of your gift is used for compassion ministry in North America and around the world. Nothing is taken out for administrative costs! We regularly share stories and updates about projects you helped fund, so you know exactly where your money is going and how your gifts are being used to address expansive, critical needs around the globe.

Serving Together

Leadership

Rooted in compassion and driven by the gospel, our team is committed to equipping churches and believers to serve faithfully and effectively.

Josh
Josh

Benton

Since 2020, Josh Benton has served as vice president of Send Relief’s North American ministry efforts, which include operating and expanding ministry centers in cities across the U.S., helping churches create local ministry, and partnering with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief to respond crisis and disasters. Prior to joining Send Relief, Josh was an economic development professional within state and local government for over sixteen years. For nine of those years, he also served in bi-vocational ministry. He is a graduate of Cumberland College in Kentucky and holds master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Christian Missions. Josh and his wife, Emily, live in Kentucky with their four children.

Jason
Jason

Cox

Jason Cox joined the Send Relief team as vice president of international ministry in January 2021 after serving 18 years overseas with the IMB. Jason has filled several leadership roles with the IMB, including a senior leadership position overseeing the work of over 500 missionaries laboring among some of the world’s least-reached peoples. At Send Relief, Jason leads a team working closely with IMB missionaries and local churches around the world to engage in compassion ministry through relief and development in ways that serve the most vulnerable, advance the gospel and strengthen the church. He and his wife, Kelli, live in Georgia and have four daughters and two sons-in-law.

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