Corporate Profile

We are a team of individuals, families and ministries ... both YWAM and non-YWAM teams.

Streams Global is a non-government, non-profit, relief and development organization reaching out to help impoverished families and communities within the 10/40 Window* which straddles from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and to the Africas.

Our goals:

1. CbR program for disabled and handicapped children; financial assistance to enable these children get treatment, surgery, rehab and therapy, and counseling support. This could result to family ministry covering immediate neighborhood and the surrounding community of the child.

2. Aquaculture projects among landlocked and poverty strickened communities; for these communities to acquire an opportunity to live a decent life and run their own livelihood by means of fish farming and engaged in marketing their product.

3. Shelter program for low-income families who can not afford their own homes. This is in cooperation with other non-profit NGOs and the local communities through sweat equity.

4. Train and send out R&D individuals and teams into the most needy communities; network with other organizations in order to reach out to the poor and the needy, and to those in disaster and calamity areas; develop staff and personnel in order to sustain this program.

5. Develop and establish dispatch centers for relief and development in several different locations: Albania, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, China (inland), Dubai, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kosova, Laos, Liberia, Mali, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe and other countries in dire need. And now, we target Niger, currently the poorest country in the world.

6. Emergency relief operation and disaster preparedness & alerting initiatives. Engage in working with different NGOs and government agencies in this regard.

7. Networking with different NGOs and international and local government agencies to provide access for these needs. *The "10/40 Window" is a geographical coordinates of the concentration of unreached and impoverished communities within Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.

Streams Global has rather a shaky and unique pioneering history. 

In 1992, YWAM’s University of the Nations, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii-based relief agency called Impact Teams, weathered its presence in the tumultuous Kurdistan Reconstruction Project in Northern Iraq in a post-Gulf War condition. Years following, Impact Teams maintained its relief & development activity in the area with different groups from around the globe. Then, late in 1996, teams in Iraq had to leave in haste, closing all possibilities of maintaining any R&D work due to Saddam Hussein’s takeover in the designated Safe Haven for the beleaguered Iraqi Kurds north of the 36^th Parallel (No-Fly-Zone).

In Albania, Kosovo and elsewhere somewhere in the Balkans, humanitarian activities had been hampered due to the civil unrest and economic slump. Similarly, workers had to leave through escape routes through Greece and other surrounding countries where conflicts had gone brewing up. A similar scenario took place in some parts of Southeast Asia among the troubled nations—on-going mercy-related activities disturbed due to factions involving government and civilian forces, and somewhere else, war and violence disrupt missions enterprises either by religious and/or non-government organizations.

However, at some points, doors are opening. In Brooklyn, New York, a Muslim high school employed a Christian missionary to teach English to expats studying or working in the area. This sparked an opportunity for God’s Spirit to move in the midst of impossible situations, and for Streams in the Desert to flow in ministry. For relief and development does offer a holistic Biblical worldview, which encompasses the whole ethos of Christian mission. In this regard, sometime in 1996, Streams in the Desert had been conceptualized to tread creative access nations.

Up to this day, many countries in the underdeveloped world still lack the access to fully enjoy the true Christian mission, which transforms hope into reality. In a world becoming bigger, where words are becoming increasingly cheaper, we need to prove our words with deeds, our faith with love in action. This is the heart of the Gospel of Jesus Christ while we worship God in the beauty of His Holiness.

Late in 1997, a number of missionaries and church workers (within and outside YWAM) had networked through the Internet for a purpose of looking into reaching the unreached within the 10/40 Window. This boiled down into one concrete agenda of delivering relief and development wherever possible and as the need arises under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

At the close of 1998, Streams Global functioned in its pioneering mood / stage linking a couple of ministries for one purpose. Dispatches had been formed through the information superhighway, the Internet—a fraction of media—one of the seven mind molders that the mission faces. It is noteworthy, therefore, that it was in Las Vegas, NV, USA, that the conceptualization of the ministry, down to its post-pioneering moods, had developed.

Close to about seven dispatches around the globe had been linked together through a dispatch in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Within its pioneering stage, the different dispatches sought partnership and likewise covering of YWAM, some churches and other organization / groups. This has been deemed for a purpose of having one common ground; and of having a permanent, established, and easy-to-access home base, for communications, recruitment and training, and further mobilization of R&D teams and dispatches into the frontiers and unreached communities.

Each dispatch either has been an existing, independent ministry or newly organized group; and are fully autonomous in their operations. One is engaged in community development projects, another is concentrating on mobile medical mercy ministry running free clinics; there is one in family & child rehab-therapy; others in community-based rehabilitation; low-cost housing project; teaching English to speakers of other languages; care giving among disabled persons; training and discipleship for R&D preparation and engagement; in carpentry & construction; yet, others are gathering funds and other resources for an emergency relief operation in a war-torn nation or a disaster-stricken village; cultural arts therapy; etc. Other prospective dispatches plan to establish business and industries in closed countries; infrastructures; orphanages; drug rehabilitation program, and other R&D initiatives.

Streams Global has been conceptualized through foundational scriptures in Isaiah 35 and Matthew 25 (v. 31-46), along with other scripture references in the Books of John 4:14; John 7:38 and Rev. 22.

 And our new dispatch in NIGER (West Africa) - still the poorest country in the world! Join us!

Please contact the Streams Global through e-mail address: streamsglobal@gmail.com

TEAM LEBANON relief blitz / outreaches are on going. Our previous team served in Lebanon as of February 12, 2014  working among the Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley.

To join the next teams, contact us now.

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