Who is Global Teams?
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Although Global Teams (GT) has been around since 1983, the year 2000 marked a major turning point in the way we understood our particular calling as a movement. We became increasingly multi-denominational and also increasingly multi-national as more and more believers from Africa, Latin America, and Asia joined GT as missionaries.
In addition, as we embraced the truth that God has left His fingerprints in every culture our style of evangelism and church planting was transformed. Instead of transplanting our own cultural or denominational forms of Christianity, now we began to expect God to work among the nations in new ways. And we see His Church, His Body emerging in forms and expressions that fit the culture of the people and enable the Gospel to flow and spread like yeast in the dough.
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Global Teams has bases in:
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America
International Mobilization
International Mobilization means that Global Teams sends missionaries from nations all over the world, equipping them to be used by God to birth new movements to Jesus among peoples and cultures least familiar with the Gospel. Like most mission organizations, we refer to these as unreached people groups.
Trainees from Korea, Costa Rica, and Vietnam learning about Native American Indian instruments.
Students dig into Scripture to find the model for mission today.
We provide the best possible training...
not just in North America, but all over the world...
But what does International Mobilization look like?
The Turkana are among the least reached peoples in Kenya.
Picture this:
A Costa Rican English teacher named Max, sending nursing students from the "Panda" People in a Muslim country,
to work on team led a by a Luo woman from Kenya named Elizabeth,
along with an American woman named Yvonne,
to reach the Turkana People in Kenya with the Gospel.
THAT is GLOBAL TEAMS!
Insider Movements
When four entire Muslim families were baptized, having been led to faith in Jesus by Muslim women who had become believers...
THAT IS AN INSIDER MOVEMENT!
Let's dig a little deeper:
We see movements that impact whole families, clans, tribes AND communities! These movements continue to live and breathe and grow like ‘yeast in the dough’ in their cultures.
We call these, “Insider Movements,” not because they are secret or underground (though some may need to be), but because those who go seek to be like Jesus; to truly become ‘the Word made flesh’ and ‘live among’ the people they have been called to serve.
"...and the Word became flesh
and dwelt among us..." -John 14a
Business as Mission
Would you buy coffee grown in the rain forest of Costa Rica if you knew it would:
- give missionaries the ability to live, work, and witness among the Cabecares, a people who don’t know who Jesus is, but who practice Animism (belief that nature is God)?
- provide a livelihood for these indigenous people who have no means to support themselves?
- provide a training base for Latin American missionaries to go FROM Costa Rica and use coffee as a platform for ministry among the unreached in Asia or Africa?
Imagine businesses like a goat farm in a Buddhist country that is closed to missionaries:
- to give the missionaries opportunities to live in the country and engage in ministry in the “rhythm of life?”
- to provide funds for projects that will benefit the people?
Business as Mission is an important strategy to provide for access, platforms, meaningful roles, and ministry opportunities for missionary teams among the unreached.
All Are Members
Global Teams commits to staying connected with our missionaries from the time they apply to the time they retire.
This is done through our Member Care Missionaries, Leaders, and staff...our support team!
But it is not only our missionaries who are "members" of Global Teams!
We believe that every member of our Board and staff, all of our volunteers, and every partner in prayer and finance is a member as well.
God has brought us together to be partners in the Gospel!
And there's so much more...
- Platforms: (providing day care, education, medical and dental services, and more)
- Projects: (building community lavatories, schools, shelters, and more)
- Translation Efforts: (translating the Gospel and training material into other languages)
- Church Planting: (raising up houses of worship in remote areas)
- Disaster Relief: (assisting in areas where floods, earthquakes, famine, etc. strike)
- Mobilization: (rallying the troops to go and/or send)
Global Teams also holds presentations, seminars, and classes in...
Churches ~ Schools ~ Homes
To inquire about having someone from Global Teams visit your area, send an e-mail to: inquiries@global-teams.net or call 661-323-1214.