Christian Missions

The Long View - Justin Long, with Mission to Unreached Peoples, about the unevangelized, mobilizing new missionaries, swarms, and mission issues.

Oxford Centre for Mission Studies - OCMS has been training a new generation of mission scholars and practitioners to become a key resource to the church in mission in contemporary contexts of complexity and diversity for almost thirty years. It has drawn key people from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe to its research and post-graduate study programmes.

Persepctives of the World Christian Movement - Since 1974, more than 80,000 believers in North America have experienced the Perspectives course. In 15 lessons, you'll engage with a range of dynamic speakers. Weekly readings and study will help you dig even deeper. Join thousands of others in one of 200 locations.

CBN WorldReach -CBN's international thrust, WorldReach, was launched in the fall of 1995 with the goal of seeing 500 million people brought to faith in Jesus Christ.CBN WorldReach follows God’s favor and initiative to present the world with the Gospel message. It partners with other ministries and organizations in strategic use of mass media for spreading the message in a culturally relevant manner throughout the world, training leaders in Biblical principles, and discipling the millions who come to Christ. In addition, through its strategic partnership with Operation Blessing International, human suffering is alleviated through relief efforts, water wells and cisterns, cleft lip and palate surgery, free medical care, micro-enterprise and lifeskill programs, and help for orphans. Innovation, excellence, and integrity are the principal guiding values in these tasks.

Cape Town 2010 Conference: Lausanne Congress - The Third Lausanne Congress on Evangelization, held in Cape Town, South Africa, was perhaps the widest and most diverse gathering of Christians ever held in the history of the Church. Over 4,000 delegates from 198 nations gathered in Cape Town from October 16-25, 2010. In addition, the Congress reached over 100,000 more participants via 650 GlobaLink sites in 91 countries. Gordon-Conwell was privileged to serve as a GlobaLink site, and hosted a two-day conference on October 22-23, 2010. Over 300 participants from various local churches, missions organizations across the country, local colleges and our own seminary community gathered to discuss the topics being presented at Cape Town. We watched the plenary sessions shown at the Cape Town Congress and engaged in discussion and prayer around table groups. The GlobaLink Conference was a meaningful and fruitful gathering, which served to network believers in the New England area and connect us to the greater Body of Christ across the world. But this is more than just a one-time event! Our intention is that this conference would serve as a catalyst for reinvigorating the church’s commitment to mission and would stimulate the Church’s role in addressing the issues of our day. Towards this end, the Wilson Center for World Missions has planned a series of ongoing events and opportunities to better equip, engage and encourage the local church in fulfilling its global mission.

Directory of Mission Organizations: Oscar

Frontiers - A global mission to Muslims around the world.

Global Mapping International (GMI) - Strategic Research and Global Mapping. GMI is an international team of evangelical research, GIS and IT professionals passionate about informing, equipping, and connecting the Church for more appropriate and effective mission. GMI partners with like-minded organizations around the world to produce and present world-class research that fuels emerging mission movements and leaders.

Intregal Mission - Integral Mission is a phrase developed in Latin America around thirty years ago, but it does not describe anything new. It is the way of life that Jesus exemplified and called us to follow. At its most basic Integral Mission simply means ‘having it all’. We want to worship and pray and preach and witness and serve and care. God put these things together and we should never have let them become separated. In contrast to how we often break up ‘mission’ into different categories like evangelism and social action, and then assign them different priorities, the mission of Jesus has an unusual breadth and wholeness. This is evident in his life and also in his death and resurrection. We are told that he died not just for the forgiveness of sins, but for the redeeming of the entire creation, to reconcile all things to himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, and bring all things under him. The work of Christ on the cross has far reaching social and cosmic consequences (Romans 8:19-22, Colossians 1:20, Ephesians 1:9-10).When Jesus sent out his disciples, their task had both verbal and non-verbal dimensions: “As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons.” Matthew 10:7-8 They were to announce verbally the good news of God’s reign being near, and then they were to authenticate its presence by demonstrating its powers. The proclamation that the king has come, that he has disarmed the enemy and now rules over all of humankind, is to be accompanied by visible signs of the presence of the kingdom: health for the sick, life for the dead, cleansing for those declared ritually unclean, light to those who sit in the shadows, and deliverance from oppression and spiritual torment.In this light, there is no controversy between those who preach the gospel and those who heal and do works of mercy. Word and works are meant to be together – although we do not always do everything at the same time. For our words to make sense, they need a caring community and a social context in which they take flesh and are made visible. Likewise our acts of mercy and compassion need articulating within the frame of the gospel if they are to be bearers of the meaning of the kingdom and not just another instance of competent social work. On the whole, our mission involves being, doing and saying what we are called to be, to do and to say as citizens of the Kingdom of God. It should not be narrowly understood as having to do merely with evangelism or social action, but with all of what it means to bear witness to the reign of Jesus in every dimension of life. When the church is committed to integral mission it understands that its goal is not to become large numerically, nor to be rich materially, nor powerful politically. Its purpose is to incarnate the values of the Kingdom of God and to witness to the love and the justice revealed in Jesus Christ, by the power of the Spirit, for the transformation of human life in all its dimensions, both on the individual level and on the community level. It involves every individual and seeks the transformation of every dimension of life.

Internatonal Bulletin for Missionary Research - With in-depth analyses of worldwide Christianity and mission-focused book reviews, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is an unparalleled source of information on the world church in mission.

Lausanne Movement - A worldwide movement that mobilizes evangelical leaders to collaborate for world evangelization.

Operation Mobilization (OM) - OM’s role in the Church is to mobilise people to share the knowledge of Jesus and His love with every generation in every nation. OM pioneers and leads initiatives to redeem lives, rebuild communities and restore hope in over 110 countries.

Oscar - A UK information service for world missions. The title 'UK Information Service for World Mission' is appropriate as OSCAR is seeking to provide a service that would further the mission of Jesus Christ throughout the world. OSCAR is a member organisation of the UK Evangelical Alliance and Global Connections. OSCAR is in agreement with the Basis of Faith of Global Connections.

TEAM: The Evangelical Alliance Mission - TEAM’s purpose is to help churches send missionaries to establish reproducing churches among the nations to the glory of God. We seek to establish reproducing churches wherever the most people have the greatest need in collaboration with churches anywhere.

U.S. Center for World Missions - The U. S. Center for World Mission (USCWM) is a mission agency that helps to improve strategic decision-making and practice on the frontiers of mission, surmounting the barriers that hinder God’s kingdom from coming among all peoples. This focus is reflected in the USCWM’s many publications, programs, and projects. The USCWM is staffed by members of the Frontier Mission Fellowship.

WEC International - WEC International reaches out to people who have limited or no access to the good news of Jesus Christ, particularly where there is no church. They work in multicultural teams to help worshipping communities of believers multiply among these people.

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) - World Evangelical Alliance is a global ministry working with local churches around the world to join in common concern to live and proclaim the Good News of Jesus in their communities. WEA is a network of churches in 128 nations that have each formed an evangelical alliance and over 100 international organizations joining together to give a worldwide identity, voice and platform to more than 420 million evangelical Christians. Seeking holiness, justice and renewal at every level of society - individual, family, community and culture, God is glorified and the nations of the earth are forever transformed. Christians from ten countries met in London in 1846 for the purpose of launching, in their own words, "a new thing in church history, a definite organization for the expression of unity amongst Christian individuals belonging to different churches." This was the beginning of a vision that was fulfilled in 1951 when believers from 21 countries officially formed the World Evangelical Fellowship. Today, 150 years after the London gathering, WEA is a dynamic global structure for unity and action that embraces 420 million evangelicals in 128 countries. It is a unity based on the historic Christian faith expressed in the evangelical tradition. And it looks to the future with vision to accomplish God's purposes in discipling the nations for Jesus Christ. Today, WEA seeks to strengthen local churches through national alliances, supporting and coordinating grassroots leadership and seeking practical ways of showing the unity of the body of Christ.

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) - outh With A Mission is an international volunteer movement of Christians from many backgrounds, cultures and Christian traditions, dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced "WHY-wham"), our purpose is simply to know God and to make Him known.When YWAM began in 1960, our main focus was giving young people opportunities to demonstrate the love of Jesus to the whole world, according to His command in Mark 16:15. Today, we still focus on youth, but we have members (known as “YWAMers”) of almost every age and many of our short-term efforts have grown into long-term endeavors that have impacted lives and nations. YWAM has a decentralized structure that encourages new vision and the exploration of new ways to change lives through training, convey the message of the gospel and care for those in need. We are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 180 countries, with a staff of over 18,000.