Core Strategies

United World Mission's Core Strategies

Seven core strategies are foundational to fulfilling our purpose. These core strategies serve as guideposts to be implemented in team-specific and context-specific ways. We believe that field missionaries are best suited to develop effective strategies based on their research and knowledge of contextual factors.

1. Mobilizing the church for mission: We believe that God has entrusted His church with the primary responsibility of making disciples of all nations. We seek to mobilize the church in North America and among the nations to fulfill her missional identity and purpose. We mobilize by envisioning, educating, networking and providing opportunities for direct involvement in strategic field ministries.

2. Connecting the church for strategic ministry: Part of the mobilization task is to help churches get out into the world and the work of the ministry. Churches are not mobilized simply by going to conferences and seminars or by having better policies or programs. We advance our purpose when we create opportunities for churches to be involved in accomplishing strategic church planting ministry.

3. Training leaders and equippers for the church in mission: We train nationals for church planting, leadership, and many aspects of ministry that are crucial to initiate and sustain church planting movements. We do not seek simply to be trainers ourselves; we equip nationals as trainers and provide them the resources for training others. A massive mobilization and equipping of lay Christians for ministry in the world is foundational to a church planting movement.

4. Promoting prayer movements for church planting and world evangelization: We know that church planting movements and the spread of the Gospel across cultural boundaries is the work of the Holy Spirit. We express our complete dependence upon Him through our prayers. We advance our purpose when we initiate and encourage prayer movements that focus on world evangelization and church multiplication.

5. Equipping national churches for ministries of compassion and development: We care about the kind of churches we plant and multiply. We believe that churches in every culture should have spiritual and Biblical integrity. This includes a social conscience and a heart of compassion for the poor and needy. We aim to establish new churches that integrate ministries of social concern with evangelistic strategies for reaching their nation with the Gospel. We always seek to implement ministries of compassion and development within larger church planting strategy and in cooperation with national churches. We focus on developing appropriate technologies so that the national church can lead and maintain these ministries.

6. Advancing research that contributes to church planting: Research strengthens church mobilization efforts by revealing the objective need for church planting. When existing churches learn the facts about the unchurched and the unreached in their nations, it motivates their prayers and their church planting action. Research also provides an accurate picture of the cultural realities that inform church planting strategy and reveals reproducible models of church planting that may be found in a context.

7. Facilitating indigenous mission efforts: The Great Commission is given to the whole church in the whole world. We are convinced that God is raising up thousands of missionaries from outside of North America. We make a strategic contribution to SCP around the world by facilitating the efforts of churches and leaders who are mobilizing, training, and deploying people for church planting and cross-cultural ministry.