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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 supports key leaders and teams of national (or indigenous) evangelists and church
planters for more effective ministry to people in their
own tribes and cultures, or near cultures. 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 indigenous ministries
in majority world nations.
Mission ONE has formal partnership agreements
with indigenous mission organizations; a leader in each of these organizations
serves as the field representative. The organization identifies the individuals and teams worthy of support, distributes funds,
gathers reports, and provides 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 cross-cultural partnership, Christians in the west have the privilege
of assisting indigenous Christian leaders and their teams—as they share the love of Christ in word and deed among their own peoples and communities. |