How We Advance the Mission
Partnering with national churches to send the gospel where others cannot go.
A Mission Strategy Built on Partnership
Strengthening National Churches
Advance partners with churches worldwide to strengthen their ability to raise, train, and send their own missionaries.
Reaching Hard-to-Access Regions
Through trusted partnerships, indigenous believers bring the gospel into places outside missionaries often cannot reach.
We bridge churches together across the globe.
The Process
Advancing the Gospel
Through Indigenous Mission
Identify Faithful Indigenous Church Networks
We discover and vet indigenous church networks, seeking to find those that are doctrinally compatible with a deep burden for reaching their world for Christ and motivated to send their own missionaries who will cross boarders into challenging places that are often hostile to the gospel.
Build Strategic Partnerships
After we find compatible church networks, we ask a simple question: “how can we help?” Our desire is to help them send more of their missionaries who are accountable to their churches. Once we know how we can help, we turn to North-American churches to partner with indigenous churches to provide the resources that are lacking.
The Process
Advancing the Gospel
Through Indigenous Mission
Send Out & Report Back
With resources in hand, our indigenous church networks send their evangelists and church planters to hard places. Every quarter the church networks report back to us about the progress of the missionaries who have been sent.
Equip & Resource
We continue to support these networks with what they need for as long as they need it until they no longer need it. Often, we provide financial support for missionaries in partnership with the church networks, but we also help provide Bibles, teaching resources, and practical equipment like motorcycles to assist those who are taking the gospel across borders.
Empowering the
Indigenous Church
Advance believes the local church is God’s primary means for reaching the world. When national churches are equipped and strengthened, they can raise up leaders, train missionaries, and multiply churches in ways that are sustainable for generations. This approach ensures that the mission does not depend on outside workers but is carried forward by the local body of Christ.
From Local Churches
to the Ends of the Earth
Through partnership, training, and strategic support, Advance helps national churches move from local ministry to global impact. Churches that once struggled to support missionaries are now sending workers into neighboring nations and unreached communities. And through these efforts, the gospel continues to advance into places where Christ has not yet been named.
Join the Mission
Partner with Advance to equip missionaries
reaching the world’s hardest places.
100 for 100
We want to continue to expand the reach of Advance, helping more churches send more of their missionaries to places closed to the gospel. You can be a part of this effort in a tangible way, by becoming part of our “100 for 100” group.
We are looking for 100 churches or individuals who will commit to giving 100 or more dollars per month to help Advance churches send 100 more missionaries across boarders to places desperately in need of the gospel. If you would like to be part of our 100 for 100 team, you can give here.
Business FOR Mission
Advance has promoted a model among the churches we serve that we call “Business FOR Mission.” This model encourages members of churches to develop successful businesses so that the profits that they generate can be used by their churches to support their missionaries.
Advance provides micro-loans to those who have submitted business plans. Once these loans are repaid, the business owner can then continue to submit the same payments to their local church who will use the funds to support missions. The repaid loan remains in-country and ready for the next business owner who desires to support missions through their successful entrepreneurship.
Would you like to join us in funding our Business FOR Mission micro-loan program? If so, contact us.
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