The Portfolio

Our diversified portfolio comprises Unreached People Groups (UPGs) that BLESS is committed to supporting long-term as they move towards planting healthy, indigenous churches. The UPG portfolio is a powerful strategy for gospel-minded investors to create lasting impact for God’s glory.

The Bless Fund Approach

Find

  • Our Mission Partners have hundreds of combined years of faithful, strategic ministry among the Unreached.
  • Through our partnerships, BLESS has access to high-impact funding opportunities across regions, cultures, and languages.
  • Explore UPGs and the 10/40 Window

Vet

  • Experienced Mission Partners propose funding opportunities in new areas for BLESS to analyze.
  • Missiology experts help us evaluate these opportunities in line with the BLESS strategy and our commitments to our funding partners.

Fund

  • Twice a year, the BLESS Fund Board of Directors reviews and approves the most compelling opportunities to be added to the portfolio.
  • These funding approvals lead to strategic injections of capital that expedite and enhance our Mission Partners’ work among the Unreached.
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The Progress Scale

BLESS uses a 10-step progress scale to track and measure development among the Unreached. While the journey varies and can seem slow, these metrics help us stay encouraged, identify growth opportunities, and provide context for sharing stories and progress across UPGs.

Mission Partners

Our Mission Partners are trusted mission organizations that help us identity UPG opportunities. We hold our Mission Partners to the highest standards of excellence and integrity because we genuinely believe in the power of accountability and transparency. With that in mind, we approach the vetting process with the utmost care and scrutiny. We are continually vetting our Mission Partners as well as their recommended UPG opportunities in order to ensure they align with the mission and vision of BLESS.

  • Mission & vision alignment
  • 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
  • Serving Unreached people groups
  • 3-year vetting cycle
  • Excellence In Giving performance report
  • 990 tax review
  • Guidestar report

29 Active UPGs and growing

We currently have 29 UPGs in the portfolio, and we have identified dozens more UPGs that have been thoroughly vetted and await funding. Your generosity directly impacts the number of UPGs, and the number of individual lives, reached with the gospel! As we allocate additional resources to the portfolio, we will continue to add UPGs and strategically provide them with the necessary funding.

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Our Impact

5 regions

Represented in the BLESS portfolio

29 UPGs

Active in the BLESS portfolio

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There is simply no other group like BLESS who finds, vets and funds the entire process of planting a healthy indigenous church. I believe this fuels the strategy of reaching the extremely unreached."
Todd Ahrend
Founder of The Traveling Team
BLESS has their whole heart focused on the task remaining, with a size and structure that allow for agility amidst complexity. Today, as a cohesive BLESS Fund, strategically vetting and committing long-term to walk with entire people groups as they embrace the Good News, make disciples, and plant churches, BLESS offers the single most effective approach to play our role as prayers, funders, and partners in the Great Commission.
Dustin Elliott
Managing Director, The Hill Country Group at Merrill

Strategically Invest to
Reach the Unreached

When you partner with BLESS, you become a strategic investor in fulfilling this Great Commission and taking the hope of Jesus to the ends of the earth!

The 10/40 Club

10/40 Club members commit to an annual minimum gift of $10k - although many give more - to fund operations so we can allocate all additional giving to frontline missions.

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The BLESS Fund

The BLESS Fund is a zero-expense fund that invests in strategic, proven, vetted Mission Partners working in parts of the world with no church and no Bible.

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Help Us Reach the Unreached

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