FY2026
Annual Report
WOMEN FLOURISHING.
CHURCHES MULTIPLYING
LIVES TRANSFORMED
Your partnership made this year possible.
Together, we are equipping and walking alongside women in church planting movements around the world.
[####] Women Served [##] Leaders Equipped
[##] Countries Reached [##] Groups & Modules
Dear friends,
Women supporting church-planting teams around the world often serve without peer support, gospel-rooted formation, or organizational recognition.
When a woman is isolated and unsupported, she can't sustain what she's called to — and neither can the church plant.
When a woman is strengthened in Christ, the church is made strong.
Parakaleo exists because someone once walked with us. We've spent years building the kind of peer relationships and gospel formation every woman in this role needs.
[EDIT] Three ways we strengthen women:
Leadership cohort
Program enrollments
Partnership pipeline
With gratitude,
[insert signature]
Denine Blevins
Executive Director
A LETTER FROM OUR DIRECTOR
A year of faithful
growth and deep impact.
OUR MISSION & VALUES
Building gospel-based resilience in women around the world.
OUR VISION
Thriving women.
Flourishing churches.
Transformed communities.
OUR MISSION
We come alongside women in church planting movements with the gospel to encourage, equip, and connect them for lasting impact
OUR APPROACH
HOW WE WALK ALONGSIDE WOMEN
Learning Experiences
Biblically rooted modules that address common church-planting challenges
Three integrated pathways.
Alongside Groups
Gospel-centered community that help women navigate specific issues
Network Partnerships
Equipping local and regional networks to better support women on their church planting teams.
GLOBAL IMPACT
A worldwide movement of resilient women.
-
ASIA PACIFIC
WOMEN SERVED
COUNTRIES
GROUPS
-
LATIN AMERICA
WOMEN SERVED
COUNTRIES
GROUPS
-
UNITED STATES
WOMEN SERVED
COUNTRIES
GROUPS
-
EUROPE
WOMEN SERVED
COUNTRIES
GROUPS
A STORY OF GOSPEL RESILIENCE
Antonea’s Story
STRENGTHENED IN WEAKNESS
When Antonea Bastian hit the 10-year mark in church planting ministry near Dallas, Texas, she expected the milestone to feel like an accomplishment. Instead, she felt the weight of a decade spent behind the scenes: relationally poured out, operationally exhausted, and now facing a newly surfacing chronic illness that would require surgery. Single, with family in another state, Antonea knew something had to give. "I knew I was deeply called to ministry, and I felt renewed in that," she recalls. "But I also knew this was not sustainable."
That same year, Antonea joined Parakaleo. Her Alongside Group leaders walked with her through the rawest stretch of that season — meeting her right at her diagnosis and again a week after surgery — and their steady kindness taught her that safety could actually be honored, not just offered. Through her modules, she recognized a dissonance she'd carried for years: as someone whose job was to hand the gospel to others, she had quietly forgotten how to receive it herself. "I didn't know what to even ask to be renewed," she says. Naming that as a gospel issue gave her permission to be on the receiving end for once. "I'm not Jesus," she explains. "I've learned how to actually ask for help and let others hold what I can't."
That freedom soon showed up in the ordinary friction of church-plant life. Not long after, in a conflict she once would have held onto for months, Antonea recognized old wounds resurfacing under new pressure — and naming it in the moment kept it from taking root. "I've been able to have more resilience to relational messiness in the church again," she says.
Today, Antonea leads a team of women's ministry leaders, freely offering others the same safe space she once wasn't sure she'd find. "Before Parakaleo, I measured success by outcome and by visible things," she says. "Today, I see success as honest connection to God in my everyday life and ministry."
Antonea's story is a picture of what gospel resilience makes possible — leaders who no longer have to hide their struggles. Thanks to donor support, women like Antonea are being restored to friendship with God, freed to lead with nothing to lose, and nothing to prove.
“I no longer feel alone. I have women walking with me, and I see how God is using my story to encourage others.”
-ANTONEA
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE MISSION
Our team. Our board. Our global community.
STAFF
Our central office provides the infrastructure Parakaleo needs to accomplish our mission. We cultivate church planting partnerships, develop and support leaders, and offer virtual programming to women who lack access to a local Parakaleo movement.
BOARD
Faithful leaders providing governance and wisdom.
Chariperson
Secretary
Treasurer
Officers
PLC GLOBAL TEAM
In partnership with church planting networks and denominations around the world, we identify, recruit and train leaders to serve women in their own context and culture. We support them through the Parakaleo Leadership Community (PLC) where they receive fellowship and resources.
FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP
Faithful stewardship.
Lasting impact.
FY2026 FINANCIALS
Income:
TOTAL: $
The good you do through powering our mission through programs and resource development.
The good you do through sustaining our mission through operations.
Expense:
TOTAL: $
The work continues.
Three strategic priorities for the year ahead.
LOOKING AHEAD
PARTNER WITH US
Help more women experience the hope of the gospel.
Your partnership makes this work possible. Together, we can see more women flourish, more churches multiply, and more communities transformed.