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Agencies

Agency Descriptions (GMC 2013)

Action International Ministries

  • www.actioninternational.org
  • Committed to fulfilling the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ as given in Matthew 28:18-20, ACTION works in cooperation with local churches and other national organizations to reach people for Christ (evangelism), train them in Christian living (discipleship), and assist them in their physical and economic needs (development).

Africa Inland Ministry

  • www.aimint.org
  • Africa Inland Mission is a non-denominational Christian missionary sending agency serving primarily in Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean. AIM was founded in 1895 and currently has more than 850 missionaries. AIM exists to declare the glory of God to the peoples of Africa. Our goal is to plant churches among the unreached and to build a maturing church in Africa through evangelism and leadership training.

Camino Global

  • www.caminoglobal.org
  • Camino Global desires to produce and empower committed followers of Christ by making disciples among Spanish-speakers globally. This is a process of inviting individuals, igniting communities, and impacting nations. Transformation is at the core of all of the activity in which the Camino Global family is engaged.

CEF

  • www.cefpdx.org
  • Child Evangelism Fellowship, also known as CEF, is a Bible-centered, worldwide organization that is dedicated to seeing every child reached with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, discipled, and established in a local church. Child Evangelism Fellowship of Greater Portland serves the Portland metro area (Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties) and is committed to helping local churches and individuals evangelize children.

Christar

  • http://www.christar.org
  • Christar’s mission is to glorify God by establishing churches among least-reached Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and other Asians worldwide. Christar is passionate about cultivating Christ-honoring transformation in communities where He is yet to be worshiped. Christar utilizes various ministries to serve and share the gospel, such as teaching English, counseling, medical and health teams, refugee assistance, sports, engineering, teaching, and business as missions.

Crossworld

  • www.crossworld.org
  • CrossWorld serves the church by mobilizing teams to make disciples and train leaders, which will result in movements of reproducing churches among the unreached. The love of Jesus has compelled CrossWorld missionaries to follow Him to remote areas since CrossWorld’s founding in 1931, and they continue to go to some of the least reached places on earth.

Entrust

  • www.entrust4.org
  • Entrust is working in various restricted access countries as well as countries in Africa and Europe to see multiplying leaders for multiplying churches through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems.

Frontiers

  • www.frontiers.org
  • A multi-national network of teams, inviting Muslims to follow and adore Jesus in communities that lead to people movements.

Greater Europe Mission

  • www.gemission.org
  • Greater Europe Mission is made up of people following Jesus, who reproduce disciplers by living the reality of God’s Kingdom in Europe and who are moving forward by prayer. We serve in more than 30 European countries, North Africa and Turkey. Ministries include Evangelism, Church Planting, and Training National Leadership for the work of the ministry (Eph. 4:11).

Latin America Mission

  • www.lam.org
  • Latin America Mission is an international community working to encourage, assist, and participate with the Latin Church in building His Church in the Latin world and beyond. Our service takes many forms: friendship evangelism to theological education; medical work to youth camps; church planting to children-at-risk work; office management to micro-enterprise development; personal counseling to emergency response. The Mission is interdenominational, biblical, holistic, innovative, empowering, and partnership-oriented.

LOOM International

  • www.loominternational.org
  • Loom International brings people, resources, training and information together for the benefit of women and children at risk. We are committed to bring change by working with others in hope and interdependence. We are an international organization, based in Portland, Oregon, partnering with grassroots projects around the world working with women and children at risk. Our main strategy for seeing long term change is to work with the people already working in their communities, bringing change one person and one day at a time. We desire to empower these small, but critical initiatives to be successful in their work among the smallest, weakest, poorest and most needy in society.

Mission Aviation Fellowship

  • www.maf.org/
  • Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) shares the love of Jesus Christ through aviation and technology so that isolated people may be physically and spiritually transformed! Our goal is that all people have access to both the Gospel and the resources that advance God’s Kingdom. MAF serves people who deal with challenges due to isolation in regions such as Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and Latin America by providing aviation, communications, and learning technology services. MAF is making a global impact by supporting and enabling church planting and nurture, medical assistance, disaster response, community development and national training.

Medical Teams International

  • www.medicalteams.org/
  • Medical Teams International is a Christian global health organization, helping people affected by disaster, conflict and poverty in 70 countries. We deliver medical and dental care, humanitarian aid, and holistic development programs to all people in need, regardless of religion, nationality, sex, or race. We respond to disasters around the world—and here at home—by sending teams of volunteer medical professionals and medical supplies to care for the sick and injured. We also mobilize long-term health promotion initiatives, collaborating with established partners within each community to ensure that our programs have a sustainable impact.

OC International

  • www.onechallenge.org
  • OC International is an interdenominational faith mission that is involved in evangelism, discipleship, leadership training, church growth, short term and sports ministries. Our mission and strategy is to mobilize godly and effective Church leaders to reach all nations by means of research, motivation, training and mobilization of the local church

OMF International

  • www.omf.org/us
  • OMF International, formerly CIM China Inland Mission, has been committed to reaching out to unreached peoples in East Asia for nearly 150 years. Currently OMF International has over 1200 workers serving the Lord among Buddhists, Muslims, tribal peoples as well as in major urban centers in 18 countries in East Asia. OMF also has short-term opportunities for individuals and teams.

San Francisco City Impact

  • www.sfcityimpact.com
  • San Francisco City Impact desires to see a spiritual awakening and transformation in the city of San Francisco by impacting one of its roughest districts. This vision is two-fold. First, we seek to transform lives by meeting people both in their physical needs as well as spiritual needs-- living out the Gospel both in word and deed. So our ministry provides immediate relief care (i.e. food, clothing, medical, etc.) as well as provides means for restoring and preventative measures (school, job placement center, volunteer opportunities for residents, etc.). The second aspect of our ministry is to provide a platform for believers to serve, be built up in Christ, and released to serve Christ in very tangible ways.

SIM

  • www.sim.org/
  • SIM has been launching Christian workers into ministry around the world since 1893. From church planting to medicine, and education to sports ministry, SIM desires to see the body of Christ in all places, among all peoples, to the glory of God. To this end, SIM is committed to cultivating multicultural mission movements that respond to need, proclaim the gospel and equip the Church. Our Passion: seeing the body of Christ in all places, among all peoples (Rev. 7:9).

TEAM

  • www.team.org
  • TEAM works in over 155 ministry initiatives in approximately 40 countries with the focus of establishing reproducing churches among the nations. Missionaries are involved in church ministries, professional services, development and education. Both career and short term ministry opportunities are available.

Village Schools International

  • http://www.villageschools.org
  • Village Schools International (VSI) serves in rural Africa sharing the gospel through education. In this context, VSI sends missionary teachers to small villages to get so involved in the lives of their students that sharing the Gospel is the natural result of loving them.

World Venture

  • www.worldventure.com
  • World Venture is a worldwide Christian organization serving over 1,000 missionaries and transformational ministries that produce significant positive changes in the lives of children, churches and communities. We build partnerships around the world with people who serve Christ through ministries of evangelism, church development, leadership training, compassion, and local mission movements. World Venture’s Northwest office specifically offers a team of mission and church coaches who help individuals and churches discover God’s missional purpose for their lives and ministries.

Wycliffe

  • www.wycliffe.org
  • Wycliffe is committed to seeing God’s Word accessible to all people in a language that speaks to their heart. Through Bible translation and literacy, Wycliffe is working to provide Scripture access to more than 2,200 language communities still without it. We have launched the Last Languages Campaign, which works to increase awareness and mobilize resources for the Bible translation movements worldwide. Wycliffe’s mission is to see a Bible translation program in progress in every language still needing one by 2025.