Future Vision of GFM

“Missionary Training” is what Global Frontier Missions focuses on doing with excellence. We have trained over 500 missionaries in the last 20 years and want to position ourselves to train hundreds, if not thousands, more!


Pre-Field Training

GFM's five-month missionary training school has historically been our primary pre-field training program to equip each individual’s head, heart, and hands for cross-cultural service. We will continue improving that program each semester while expanding our current "home hub" in Atlanta to include specialties in medical missions, community development, ESL (English as a Second Language), trauma counseling, and church planting multiplication.


Tentmaking Training

Missiologists tell us that, while Gen Z is less interested in the “raise your own support” model of missions, they are very open to living missionally in marketplaces overseas among friends and neighbors. With that in mind, GFM plans to develop a revamped, night version of our missionary training program that offers options for “tentmakers” or Business as Mission (BAM) practitioners and trains them to thrive as they serve among the unreached.


On-the-Field Training

Our South Asia “field hub” launched its SLICE program focused on helping new missionaries wrestle with regional matters related to Strategy, Language, Identity, Culture, and Exalting Jesus. Many missions organizations see newly deployed missionaries returning home before completing their first four-year term. Quality pre-field training helps reduce those attrition rates, but some agencies are realizing the additional need for on-the-ground training. We are praying about starting new “field hubs” and more SLICE programs in "gateway cities" to equip long-term, fruitful, discipling-making missionaries. We hope to augment our THUMBs Up Vision by establishing mobilization, training, and sending “field hubs” in the Tribal, Hindu, Unreligious, Muslim, and Buddhist worlds.


Global South Training

GFM receives a steady flow of inquiries from around the world asking for ministry training. Some want to grow in Bible knowledge or to learn evangelism, discipleship, and church planting strategies. Others want to become missionaries who serve among unreached people groups. We have led several short-term training trips into the Global South to equip and empower local indigenous leadership to reach their own people, to be grounded in Scripture, and to catch a missions vision to take the Gospel to the remaining unreached people groups in their country, region, and throughout the world.


Missiologists expect that 70% of the mission force, by the year 2050, will be from outside the West; thus, we want to help prepare our brothers and sisters around the world for missions. Our ultimate goal is to train Global South disciples to initiate church planting movements. GFM also mobilizes and trains immigrant and ethnic churches for local and global cross-cultural ministry, as they could be a major key in the fulfillment of the Great Commission.


Online Training

Increasingly more people around the world are accessing the internet. Our preferred way to train missionaries is face-to-face, experiencing life-on-life ministry together. However, because not everyone is able to attend the programs in an existing “hub,” we developed our online missionary training to equip people to serve cross-culturally no matter where they are. Following the same well-rounded curriculum as our in-person training, the online program is accessible to people in the Global South as well as missionaries on the field who desire additional training. We also encourage local churches to implement our online training in their context as they equip and deploy their own missionaries to the field. We will continue to expand online training options that will serve missionaries who are life-long learners.

If any of these areas sounds exciting to you, please contact us. We need more GFM full-time staff to fulfill the vision God has laid on our hearts, and we also need an army of pray-ers and givers, so please consider whether God would have you join our movement.


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“And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” 

Matthew 24:14


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Until All Have Heard.

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