The Church and the Mission Agency: Who Does What

Pioneers desires to come alongside churches and work together. Partnership is one of our core values. A question churches and candidates often ask is: “What does it mean to be a sending church in partnership with Pioneers?”

The sending church as a partner with Pioneers

A sending church is a fellowship of believers that identifies potential cross-cultural workers within its fellowship and gives witness to their character, call, experience and giftedness.

1. A sending church embraces its primary role of spiritual authority and care and strives to be a catalyst in the preparation, training, care and funding of its worker.
2. A sending church acknowledges the empowerment and calling of the Holy Spirit for the commissioning and releasing of its worker to the field of service.
3. A sending church participates in partnership with Pioneers to work on teams among the unreached.
4. A sending church faithfully prays for fruitful ministry among the people groups where its workers serve.

Pioneers as a partner with the sending church

Pioneers exists to partner with the sending church to send cross-cultural workers who initiate church-planting movements among unreached peoples.

1. Pioneers provides accountability and care in financial, personal and spiritual matters.Pioneers assists the sending church with recruitment, evaluation, preparation and care of cross-cultural workers.
2. Pioneers responds to the unique shape God has given each sending church and assists it to develop and sustain vision for its ministry among the unreached.
3. Pioneers pursues pathways for expanding the ministry of the sending church in cross-cultural contexts.
4. Pioneers faithfully prays for sending churches in their pursuit of God’s heart for the nations.

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