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Fulfilling The Great Commission Among Unreached People Groups


GFM 1.0

In the year 2000, Global Frontier Missions was founded with the purpose of seeing disciples made and churches planted among the remaining unreached people groups of the world. GFM’s humble beginnings involved one missionary couple making disciples and planting churches in a few of the least reached villages in Oaxaca, Mexico. During the first few years, hosting short-term mission trips and summer internships led to others joining GFM with God’s vision and heart for all nations. An indigenous Bible school was started to equip local, national leaders in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting among their own peoples and beyond. GFM then started a missionary training school to equip more people to serve among the 3.4 billion people that have never heard the gospel. GFM’s staff and vision steadily grew over that first decade.

GFM 2.0

In 2010, several people launched out from the GFM Mexico location to plant “home hubs” in Atlanta, GA and Houston, TX to focus on mobilization and pre-field missionary training while doing diaspora missions (working among the unreached living in the US). With a goal to expand to other multi-ethnic cities, we launched locations in Richmond, VA and Sydney, Australia.


GFM is passionate about lowering the number of missionaries that leave the field for preventable reasons. We have found that the best way to train missionaries for the long haul is to offer cross-cultural ministry experience before people launch out to the field. So, GFM purposely chose locations with people from many different countries and people groups where candidates can do the work of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting among Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.


Our goal is to make disciples who will make disciples that will praygivegowelcome, and mobilize others to engage in the Great Commission strategically to ensure that the remaining 7,000 unreached people groups have access to the Good News of Jesus. Additionally, GFM established global partnerships with other missions organizations so that we can strategically work together to raise up laborers to take the gospel to every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.


In addition to their missionaries getting the knowledge (head), character (heart), and skills (hands) necessary BEFORE launching to the fields, many missions agencies realize the need for laborers to be mentored well during their first year ON the field through on-the-job training. With that in mind, GFM launched our first “field hub” in South Asia as part of our THUMB people strategy (Tribal, Hindu, Unreligious, Muslim, Buddhist). The purpose of a “field hub” is to walk alongside missionaries during their first 6-18 months on the field to help with language learning and acculturation, to navigate visa and government issues, to figure out identity and valid platforms to serve in the country, and to get basic life skills to thrive in-country, all while sharing the love of Christ in word and deed. GFM hopes to add more of these “field hubs” in the future in major gateway cities.

Read more about GFM’s history.


GFM 3.0

In 2020, GFM reached its 20th anniversary, celebrating over 500 laborers raised up for the harvest.

Over the next decade, we plan to focus our strategic efforts in the following five areas:

Pre-Field Training

Tentmaking Training

On-The-Field Training

Global South Training

Online
Training

Read more about GFM’s future.

About Global Frontier Missions: Our Non-Profit Organization

Global Frontier Missions (GFM) is an international, inter-denominational Christian missionary mobilization and training agency. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was incorporated in the state of Virginia in the year 2000 and later in the state of Georgia in 2009. We have a diverse Board of Directors and a Global Leadership Team that provide most of the strategic direction for the organization, as well as leadership teams at the local level that oversee each of our hubs.


Acquaint yourself with the history of GFM, our future vision, statement of faith, and core values. For more information about Global Frontier Missions, check out our ministry overview, annual reportorganization financials, Board of Directors, and endorsements.



GFM's Logo

From the beginning of Genesis [ through the book of Revelation ], God asked His people to be fruitful and multiply (Gen 1:28), spreading to the north, south, east, and west (Gen 28:14). This consistent multiplication will culminate in a grand multitude that no one could count from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation, giving God the glory that He deserves (Rev. 7:9,10). Likewise, between the first coming of Christ [ and His second coming ], Jesus said He would build His church and that His disciples should go about making disciples of all nations, thus expanding His rule and His reign. Therefore, our logo reminds us that, from the first page of the Bible until the last, and in the midst of an already but not yet fully realized kingdom, we are to be about the Father’s business of increasing worship on the earth by proclaiming the gospel and making disciples. Check out our Biblical Basis of Missions teaching for more information, as well as our Habits of a Global Christian to discover how to live out a missional lifestyle in a biblical way. 


GFM has trained over 500 missionaries in the last 20 years to go into all the world to preach the gospel. Our goal is to train 500 more in the next 10 years . . . until all have heard!

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