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How you can go where the gospel hasn’t.
Go Short-term | 1 week to 3 months
Do you have a week or two to give to God? AFM sends short-term teams to do prayer walks, evangelism, and to support our workers as they minister in areas without a viable and visible church. Our short-term application form is right here.
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*AFM can only accept application forms from within the U.S. and/or for U.S. citizens.
Go Mid-term | 3-12 months
AFM tailors internships in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East for those who feel called to serve God between 1-12 months. You can find our mid-term application form right here.
*AFM can only accept application forms from within the U.S. and/or for U.S. citizens.Go Long-term | 1 Year+
Have you sensed God calling you to serve Him in another country? AFM sends workers to the largest and least-evangelized people groups in the world. If so, please contact us and we will pray and talk with you as you discern where God is leading you. You can find our long-term application form right here.
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​*AFM can only accept application forms from within the U.S. and/or for U.S. citizens
Vision Trips
Short-term Vision Trips (5-14 days) are the primary vehicle for introduction to ministry, with ministry in one of the following areas:
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Teaching in discipleship, church growth, and leadership development
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Teaching curriculum and running sports camps
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Medical/public health, including medical camps, medical training for village health workers, training for lay people in public health, basic hygiene, and AIDS awareness and treatment
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Business training, including microenterprise projects and surveying for further involvement and development
Both individuals and teams may come serve. The ideal team size is 8-10 people.
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(This is a non-stipendiary position. Thus, interested individuals can volunteer their time for this ministry or they can raise their own financial support through AFM to be compensated for this ministry.)
Do you have a passion for those with no access to the gospel? Are you a strategic thinker and leader? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to see a church-planting movement take root among an unreached people group? If your answer to the above questions is yes, we invite you to explore the possibility of joining AFM as a Strategy Coordinator. We’ll help you and your church to discern how you can actively participate in planting churches among unreached people groups. If called, we will mentor and send you as a Cross-Cultural Worker to the unreached.Become a Strategy Coordinator
INDIA
AFM partners with thousands of churches in India to share the love of Christ.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
God's Spirit is moving across Singapore and the Anglican Diocese of Singapore is making disciples throughout southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
As a partner with the Diocese of Singapore in this vision, AFM is helping the U.S. Church to send cross-cultural workers to southeast Asia for terms lasting from one month to a career in length.
Most AFMers serve in places we can’t publicly identify for security reasons. Here are a few key locations that we can share.
In 1987, undeterred by harsh living conditions (no running water, no electricity, and cold Himalayan temperatures) and the potential of persecution, The Rev. Norman and Beth Beale followed God’s call to Nepal.
Their ministry vision crystalized in 1990: to see God birth a church planting movement among the Tamang (a Tibetan-Buddhist Himalayan tribal ethnic group in Nepal).
In 1994 the Beales joined Anglican Frontier Missions and received training as Strategy Coordinators. They asked, “What must be done to see a church planting movement develop?”
The Rev. Beale remarked, “During the 1990s we witnessed masses coming to Christ who wanted to become Anglican.”
Accordingly, The Rev. Beale began laying the foundation of the Anglican Church in Nepal in 1996 which was founded in 1999 when he was installed as the first Dean. Today, there are 58 Anglican Churches in Nepal with 9,000 baptized members because one couple dared to go where the church is not and become a Strategy Coordinator.
Anglicans in Nepal
THE UNITED STATES
NIGERIA
AFM Nigeria was founded through the ministry of Rev. Canon Tad de Bordenave, founder and first Executive Director of AFM. Tad first met Bishop Nathan Inyom of the Diocese of Makurdi (Benue State), Nigeria at the 1998 Lambeth Conference.
In 2000, Tad visited Nigeria for the first time upon Bishop Inyom’s invitation. During this visit, he met with the former Primate of ALL Nigeria, Most. Rev. Peter Akinola, Rt. Rev. George Bako, Rt. Rev. William Diya, etc. He also visited many other places of interest to explore the possibility of working with the Church of Nigeria in order to expand the scope of the frontier missions in Nigeria. It was at this time that AFM Nigeria was born. Today, Tad is canonically resident in the Province of Nigeria and is a Canon in the Diocese of Makurdi.
AFM ministers to refugees and immigrants in many cities across the U.S.
AFM Nigeria has adopted the Baka Pygmies of Eastern Cameroon. For years, AFM Nigeria has praying, advocating, networking, and reaching out to the Baka Pygmies to see a church planting movement established among them.
The present plan of AFM Nigeria is to carry out Strategic Mission Training and Discipleship/Church Planting Movement Training, not only for the Baka Pygmies but also for other unreached people groups on the African continent in the regions of Central and West African (Gabon, Togo, Zaire, etc.).
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For more information about AFM Nigeria and/or to get involved, contact Peter Inyom at peterinyom@yahoo.com.
Tad de Bordenave, Bishop Nathan Inyom, and the Rev. Dr. Chris Royer