We are an international collective of reflective practitioners that we call Associates. We also have strategic partnerships with organisations and networks from every continent seeking to glorify God in every nation.
Our primary concern is to advance God’s purposes in the wider world as revealed in the Biblical narrative. Missions (plural) is our human response to God’s revelation, resulting in God’s New Creation (Kingdom) being extended through faith in Christ.
We are an inter-generational global community of missions leaders intersecting alliances, movements, networks, agencies,
churches, and ministries with the objective of encouraging participation in the purposes of God worldwide.
We exist to encourage the global Church to participate in the purposes of God:
A short introduction to the treasured principles that motivate us and guide our activities:
The mission isn’t ours, it is God’s. But those who hold power in the missions community (usually those holding the purse strings and prioritizing activities) too easily forget that. To reach nations with the gospel requires a posture change. Instead of doing missions through, with, or by sending indigenous leaders, expatriate involvement must show up differently and now be willing to come under indigenous leadership.
Artificial (aka Assistive) Intelligence use has accelerated exponentially over the past three years — often uncritically. The rapid uptake requires us to take stock regarding the use of the new technology. Here, the forum content is summarised with links to the actual presentations. The forum explored AI’s potential to support translation, training, research, administration, digital evangelism, low-resource languages, and grassroots ministry. Yet, AI must remain subordinate to human responsibility, theological discernment, and relational mission.
In the contemporary missions landscape, the global Church finds itself at a historic crossroads, where the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally altering how we perceive and perform our sacred mandates. The conversation has shifted decisively from whether the Church should engage with these technologies to how it can do so faithfully. Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical has received much publicity, but Protestants have drawn similar conclusions for some time. Here is an introduction.
Alongside the expansion of the Church in the Majority World lies a crisis so urgent and spiritually consequential that it threatens to undermine the very foundations of its growth. This crisis is the overwhelming lack of accessible, affordable, and contextually grounded training for those called to shepherd these burgeoning congregations. This brief follow-up report presents findings from talks presented at the 2026 Online Forum concerning this topic as well as breakout room notes and subsequent submissions.
Alongside the expansion of the Church in the Majority World lies a crisis so urgent and spiritually consequential that it threatens to undermine the very foundations of its growth. This crisis is the overwhelming lack of accessible, affordable, and contextually grounded training for those called to shepherd these burgeoning congregations. This essay presents pre-reading for an online forum where we will explore the issues further. A follow-up essay presenting findings from the forum will follow.
Mission Commission Co-Leader, Jamie Mātenga presents a missions forecast warning against toxic utilitarianism as a threat to global stability, a narrow-minded view of national wellbeing, and a multi-faceted problem for those of us seeking to fulfil the purposes of God internationally. While positive Kingdom growth is evident, the demise of philanthropy, trauma of tribalism, lack of theological education, and impact of migration frame a future of missions that will be significantly intertwined with the rise of AI.
Authors from eighteen countries give us their perspectives on biblical principles and cultural expressions of spirituality particularly as the church engages in God’s mission. This anthology enriches our understanding of the depth and the meaning of being spiritual and the diversity of forms to live out the Christian faith.
A contemporary account of the global refugee situation and how the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ is shining brightly in the darkest corners of the greatest crisis on our planet. These hope-filled pages present models of Christian ministry from the front lines of the refugee crisis and the challenges of ministering to today’s refugees.
Christians active in the arena of business, charity, and church are on a journey to integrate business and holistic mission. In this book, Gea Gort and Mats Tunehag explain the BAM concept through theory and theology, with stories to show what it looks like in real life as an expression of a much broader movement.
This book is the first definitive exploration of the recent history, ministries and methods of mission mobilization. The evangelical missions community is expending much energy and resource trying to raise up workers for the Lord’s harvest, but is it helping? Are the means, models, methods, and mechanisms being applied to this end effective?
What does it mean today to be a church totally committed to the gospel and fully engaged in God’s mission? What major religious and sociological trends in our world are affecting the role of the global church and local churches? How must we understand and be prepared to face these trends? This book addresses these issues and more.
The Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI) gathered its continental family in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 9–13 March 2026 for a historic consultation—the first ever held in Francophone Africa, 25 years after MANI’s founding declaration in Jerusalem. The consultation’s theme, “Present and Future Realities, Challenges, and Prospects of the African Church,” framed a week of worship, discernment, and strategic conversation about Africa’s growing role in global mission. This is Jan Wessels’ perspective.
In early 2025, a team of nine scholars and practitioners drafted the statement, “Reactivating the Church as a Movement”. Feedback from within the Motus Dei Network sharpened the language, clarified terms, and strengthened its biblical and cross-cultural grounding. With additional input from a symposium in May, the statement was is finished in September and now published. This essay is an introduction to the statement with links to find it.
A personal reflection based on participating, observing, and listening to different voices at the Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation conference held in Dubai, 8 – 12 September, 2025 under the theme, “Rethinking Christian Faith and Mission: A Majority World Conversation”. The conference addressed four themes: Identity, Holy Spirit, Mission, and Disicpleship, and in this essay Dr Israel Olofinjana presents some of his thinking from the discussions around each theme.
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