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Founded by evangelist Bob Schindler in 1991, Mission ONE has become a leading agency in promoting partnership with nationals as a key strategy for world evangelization. Mission ONE is focused primarily on planting churches among unreached peoples, those who have little or no access to hearing the gospel of Christ. Most of the national missionaries supported by Mission ONE are laboring among Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or animistic people. More than 80% of the national missionaries supported by Mission ONE live in the “10-40 Window”, where the vast majority of unreached peoples live. Mission ONE empowers grassroots evangelists and church planters for more effective ministry to people in their own tribe and culture, or near culture. In an expression of the diversity/unity principle of the universal Body of Christ, Mission ONE facilitates cross-cultural partnerships between the Church in the West — and impoverished national missionaries in developing nations. Mission ONE has formal partnership agreements with mission organizations overseas; a leader in each of these organizations serves as the field representative. The organization provides the means to recommend nationals worthy of support, distribute funds, gather reports, and provide local oversight and accountability. ”We plead the cause of the poor and needy.” Mission ONE holds to the broad biblical mandate of compassion for the poor. Through partnership, Christians in the West have the privilege of wisely helping needy saints in the hard places of the world. Mission ONE is a servant of the local church, offering the services below to mobilize churches for strategic and personalized involvement in world evangelization:
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