Purpose, Vision, Core Values

Anglican Frontier Missions      

Purpose: Why has God created AFM?

To partner with God in fulfilling His passionate desire to be in covenantal, intimate relationship with every people group throughout the world

To actualize the multiplication of biblical-based indigenous churches among unreached people groups

To mobilize members of the North American Anglican “family” and the its worldwide counterparts to fulfill God’s fervent desire to join with the Body of Christ in wooing all unreached people groups to Himself

Vision: What end result does God want to see as the fruit of AFM’s work?

To see viable, biblically-based, indigenous churches multiplied in the 25 largest, least evangelized people groups in the world (more details)

Mission: What has God called AFM to accomplish?

With God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to (1) identify, (2) mobilize, (3) partner with Strategy Coordinators to fulfill our Vision.

Core Values: What convictions best describe the values AFM upholds as it does its work?

• Dependent upon God
• Grounded in His Holy Word
• Led by His Holy Spirit
• Strategic, active, thoughtful
• Honor, respect and appropriately adopt the ways of indigenous cultures, individuals, organizations and resources
• Embrace mutually beneficial collaborative relationships  amongst Christians in both the Global North and Global South for achieving our Mission
• Use uncommon means to deal with uncommon challenges
• Surrounded by continuous prayer from throughout the Body of Christ
• Passionate about achieving our Vision
• Transparent in all we say and do
• Fully committed to the Strategy Coordinator model to fulfill our Vision
• Value accountability to God, our workers, our unreached people groups, and supporters
• Ruthlessly evaluative