Mission Group Identifies Six Key Regions for High Impact Mobilization
A cross-cultural ministry that has reached more than 75,000 church and business leaders is refocusing on six newly designated epicenters to create a bigger impact across the unreached.
A more than 20-year-old mission organization has identified six key regions for its international mobilization efforts – China, the Horn of Africa, India, the Malay World, Tanzania and the United States.
Accelerating International Mission Strategies (AIMS), a cross-cultural ministry that has reached more than 75,000 church and business leaders, is refocusing on these newly designated epicenters to create a bigger impact across the unreached. AIMS will target its training in the six regions for the next five years to equip local leaders in strategically advancing the gospel throughout their respective regions.
"We believe that these epicenters will be focal points through which the earth will be shaken and the unreached will be reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ," said Daniel Crosby, president of AIMS, according to the Lausanne World Pulse.
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AIMS has developed lasting partnerships with key leaders and organizations throughout the six regions since its founding and will now refocus 80 percent of its global mobilization efforts on raising up resources and leaders at the heart of each region – each with their own unique strategies.
The world has seen a large shift in the missions force to the global South. In Africa and Asia, churches are growing faster than ever. AIMS equipped 100 Ethiopian leaders in 2001 to train others around the country to mobilize churches. Since then, Ethiopian churches have sent missionaries to all 60 unreached people groups within the country and established a growing church in 35 of them. Leaders in Tanzania plan to focus on reaching 31 remaining unreached people groups and then spread its movement throughout Central Africa. In China, the growing house church movement is anticipated to spread the gospel to 456 unreached people groups within the country.
Despite the shift in the global missions force, the United States is still the world's largest missionary sending country and remains a powerful epicenter. AIMS plans to create partnerships with denominations and church networks throughout the states to mobilize the American Church as it still plays a crucial role in the completion of the Great Commission. The missions agency also hopes to host Harvest Connection seminars, to spread awareness of strategic opportunities in global missions. Harvest is AIMS's premier seminar that demonstrates how the church can use available resources and join others for effective international ministry.
These epicenters are key strategic regions from which the earth will be shaken for the Kingdom of God, said a statement by AIMS.
