The cities and unreached peoples of the world need few things more urgently than new churches with local leaders.
Missiologist Leslie Newbigin says:
“The only hermeneutic for the gospel is the local church.” (Gospel in a Pluralistic Society)
Newbigin means that local churches are God’s best evangelist! When churches live in biblical community, love their neighbors, and share the message in the local language–people stop, look, and listen. The church, when it lives as it should, makes the gospel plausible and compelling to its neighbors.
Starting new churches is the best way to fulfill the Great Commission in all nations. We’re not talking about buildings or denominations. We’re talking about forming communities of disciples for Christ’s compassionate mission in the world.
Our way of church planting is to come alongside national church planters rather than plant churches ourselves.
Come join us and our partners in church planting around the world. It takes a pioneering spirit and a radical love for people. It takes an openness to new forms of church. It takes a deep desire to encourage national church planters in one of the greatest–and most challenging–tasks in the world!
Partner with UWM
If you lead missions in a U.S. local church that senses a call to global church planting, we can share partnership possibilities with you.