Since 1961 · 41 workers
Northern Mozambique
Village church planting and hand-dug wells across Nampula province, alongside the Macua churches who now lead most of it.
Table suppers · Colorado Springs
Ask someone who has been.
Once a month, in five corners of the Springs, a worker home from the field cooks supper, talks for twenty minutes and takes every question. Supper is free and nobody will ask you to sign anything.
Colorado Springs
Far Shore house
1st Thu · 6:30 PM
2215 N Weber St
Our office. Green chile, usually.Directions to Far Shore houseWestside Covenant hall
2nd Thu · 6:30 PM
3014 W Colorado Ave
Old Colorado City. Park behind on Cucharras.Directions to Westside Covenant hallPine Creek Bible Church
2nd Sun · 5:00 PM
9880 Lexington Dr
Briargate. Childcare in Room 4.Directions to Pine Creek Bible ChurchThe Pryce kitchen
3rd Thu · 6:30 PM
Ivywild, address on RSVP
Twelve seats. Mongolian buuz.Directions to The Pryce kitchenFountain Valley Chapel
4th Thu · 6:30 PM
611 S Santa Fe Ave, Fountain
Spanish interpretation on request.Directions to Fountain Valley Chapel
Who we are
A small agency that keeps people on the field for decades
Far Shore began in 1961 when two nurses from Colorado Springs went to the Mozambican coast and stayed thirty-one years. We still work the way they did. We send fewer people than most agencies and we ask them to stay longer: the average Far Shore worker has been on the field for eleven years.
Today 146 adults and their children serve in five fields, learning languages, translating Scripture, digging wells, running a highland clinic and teaching at a university. Every one of them is backed by a home church, a member-care team in the Springs and a few hundred people who pray for them by name.
Five fields
Where our people live and work
Each field has a team leader on site and a mobilizer in the Springs who knows it well.
Since 1974 · 22 workers
Cusco highlands, Peru
Quechua Bible translation and literacy classes in mountain towns above 11,000 feet.
Since 1993 · 28 workers
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
English teaching, student hostels and a growing network of Mongolian-led house churches.
Since 1982 · 37 workers
Eastern Highlands, PNG
A rural clinic, a nursing school and two small aircraft that reach villages no road does.
Since 2004 · 18 workers
North Africa
Teaching, small business and long friendships in a city we don't name online. Prayer partners get the fuller story by private letter.
On the field today
Sixty-five years in, still a small agency
We count people, not projects.
1461
adults serving long-term
11.4
average years on the field
9
languages our workers speak daily
92%2
of every gift sent to the worker it names
- 1Plus 93 children, most of them in local schools.
- 2The other 8% pays for member care, training and audits.
Figures as of September 1, 2026.
From the field
Our first three years were mostly listening and mispronouncing things. Year eleven, our neighbors ask us to pray for their wells and their sons. You cannot skip to year eleven.
Field letters
News from five fields
Wondering if you should go? Start with a conversation.
A mobilizer will meet you for coffee or on a call. It commits you to nothing.