Our vision is to develop and activate grassroots and organic discipleship movements geared towards the least reached people groups, areas and vulnerable communities.
Our Mission
Our mission is to train and send small, specialized mission teams to the least reached people groups, areas and vulnerable communities. These teams will function as catalysts to develop and activate grassroots and organic discipleship movements in these areas and communities.
Our Strategy
Focus Areas
1. Mobilize and Equip Believers
We mobilize and train churches, professionals and organizations to passionately and effectively live and spread the gospel, locally and cross culturally. We equip believers to reach out to the least reached and vulnerable in the most affordable, streamlined and focused manner possible, while activating grassroots discipleship
movements.
2. Train and Send Catalyst Teams
We build the capacity of people and teams through discipleship, internships, leadership development and skills training. We focus on knowledge and skill transfer while pursuing infrastructure-light strategies. Catalyst teams are sent out to develop and activate grassroots and organic discipleship movements amongst the least reached people groups, areas and vulnerable communities.
3. Community Transformation
We holistically improve the wellbeing of people and communities spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically. We focus particularly on education, agriculture, evangelism, discipleship and small business.
4. Prayer Initiatives
We organize, participate and engage in prayer initiatives to see His glory revealed and His Kingdom established in all the Earth.
Defining Grassroots and Organic Discipleship Movement
Grassroots and organic discipleship movement: A rapid multiplication of disciples by ordinary, local believers of Jesus in a way that is self-duplicating in nature.
Defining Least Reached People Groups:
Definition of least reached people groups: An area or a people group in which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group.
These communities will include:
Ethno linguistic people groups and regions
Muslim communities where the social barrier prevents the existing church from effectively reaching out to their Muslim neighbours.
Diaspora communities: Immigrant communities where the cultural and language barriers make it difficult to reach them.
Impoverished urban communities: In fast growing inner city and informal settlements – with their cultural mix, educational, social and economic challenges, we find youth and the unemployed forming subcultures that are difficult to reach.
Marginalized and exploited: This includes the hearing impaired, people with special needs, orphaned and vulnerable children and other enslaved communities.
Defining Categories of EMI Missionaries:
Category 1 Missionary
Indigenous believers with a passion and calling to work amongst the unreached people groups in their countries of residence. These missionaries may be tentmakers (missionaries who also have a separate vocation for financial stability and identity within the community- e.g. teachers, nurses, doctors, administrators, agriculturalists, business men and women) who are intentional about evangelizing, discipling and church planting as they live and work in or around an unreached community.
Category 2 Missionary (Catalyst team)
Small, highly skilled, full time EMI missionary teams will support Category 1 missionaries by providing
training, leadership, strategy and focus. This team may be made up of indigenous and cross-cultural
missionaries.
Areas of specialization of the Catalyst team may include:
Leadership
Student ministry
Education
Business
Skills such as Agriculture and Sport
Discipleship
Social justice
Administration
Category 3 Missionary
The teams will be supported by:
Short term outreaches (preferably around skills like teaching at training conferences, entrepreneurship and skills training).
An international leadership and services team. This will be small, but instrumental in developing the Category 2 teams in leadership and help them to be focused.
An outsourced services model from within participating resource churches. (We hope to have team members that will do the communications as well as the bookkeeping etc. from tent making roles in support churches.)
Small recruitment and financial development teams in resource countries. (We would like to engage people that are nearing retirement age or are on pension to help us with the more official support raising from foundations and charities.)
