Vision/Values/Culture

Vision

Mission

Priority

To engage every Unengaged People Group by 2033

Values

• Abide in Jesus (John 15:5)

• Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

• Deny yourself (Luke 9:23)

• Engage the regions beyond (2 Corinthians 10:16)

Culture

Working Together With God (2 Corinthians 6:1)

Our Partnership teams minister in diverse contexts across the globe. The need for flexible leaders who are committed to a common culture is vital to establish healthy ministries. We celebrate our diversity while we collectively uphold our common values.

1. Being disciples and making disciples of Jesus (Matthew 28:19) — to proclaim truth, we must first experience it both personally and as a community of believers (1 John 1:1-4). To this end, we affirm our strong commitment to daily abiding in the presence of Jesus (John 15), lovingly holding each other accountable (Acts 15, 17, James 5:16), and boldly living the life of true disciples (who make disciples) of Jesus (Romans 1:16). Who we are will drive what we do. Integrity, humility, and authenticity are just as important as competence.
   
   

2. Living incarnational lives — sharing truth begins by sharing life (1 Corinthians 3:9, 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8) with those in our receiving local community. We affirm the call to be life-long learners of language and culture (Hebrews 2:18, 4:15) so that our witness is culturally understandable (Acts 15) while remaining biblically sound. This requires laborers who embrace culture while faithfully representing God’s kingdom in a broken world (1 Corinthians 9:22).
   
   

3. Planting vibrant indigenous churches — The mission mandate is apostolic (Romans 15:20-21), calling us to go to those areas that are untouched by God’s message of redemption. We will work (1 Corinthians 4:1-2) to plant self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating churches (2 Timothy 2:2) with Spirit-led, godly leaders. We prioritize church planting “in the regions beyond” – unengaged peoples, frontier peoples, under-engaged peoples, and the unreached (Matthew 28:18-19, Revelation 7:9).
   
   

4. Empowered by the Spirit — as representatives of the kingdom (Ephesians 5:18), our lives must reflect the transformation that only comes through the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). We affirm that our fruit belongs to God, that our work is empowered by His presence (Ephesians 6:18), and that our effectiveness is based solely on a reliance we maintain daily on the Holy Spirit. We believe in Pentecostal holism (Acts 6:4) that ministers to mind, body, and spirit through word, sign, and deed. The insertion point can vary (we can start with ministry to mind OR body OR spirit), but we have not shared the Gospel until we have proclaimed from the Bible what God has done in Christ (2 Timothy 4:2).
   
   

5. Embracing obedient lifestyles — the work of gospel proclaimers requires us to confront forces of darkness (Ephesians 6:10-17) and to withstand the insults of man. Faithfully fulfilling our mandate requires character that comes through humble submission (Luke 22:42, Matthew 26:39) to our loving God in all circumstances (John 12:24, Galatians 2:20). We affirm that to welcome sacrificial living for Jesus (Hebrews 5:8), even suffering (1 Corinthians 15:31), is a biblical value that grateful disciples offer to God (Matthew 5:11). 
   
   

6. Teamwork as testimony — Jesus sent the disciples out two by two (Luke 9:1-2, 10:1). We affirm the powerful witness of Spirit-led teams. When we partner together (Acts 13:1-3, Romans 16:1-16) from different nations to present the gospel to the unreached, we are a picture of the gospel of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-19) that brings all men together. 
   
   

7. Partnership as relationship — When we work where there are existing National Churches connected to the World Assemblies of God Fellowship (WAGF), we will prioritize working with them (John 17) as we reach the unreached and engage the unengaged together (John 12:32). We will collaborate with partner national churches walking in unity, humility, and respect towards the unreached and unengaged (Romans 15:1-12). Wherever possible, we will invite all movements of people groups that come to Jesus to join the existing national churches and the wider World Assemblies of God family (Philippians 1:5). When working in countries that do not have existing Assemblies of God national churches, we will invite church movements that are pioneered to join our wider global WAGF family while maintaining a broad and inclusive Kingdom of God perspective (2 Corinthians 8:18-19). When working in countries where the National Church does not yet engage the unreached and/or unengaged, we will prayerfully and humbly ask if we can work with them towards reaching the unreached and engaging the unengaged (Romans 15:14-25). We must always obey Jesus and make disciples of all the nations (Acts 13:46-48).

Goals

Prayer

1. Daily prayer for each of the 2,085 UUPGs

2. At least 144 intercessors praying for each UUPG 10 minutes a day (which equals 24-hour prayer coverage)

3. Over 1,000 intercessors for each UUPG (2,085,000+ intercessors)

Engagement

1. By 2033 every unengaged people group is engaged

2. Post 2033 every unreached people group on earth is fruitfully engaged

3. There is an indigenous church planted among every people group on earth

What is Engagement?

• There is sustained activity* to share Christ and make disciples

• There are efforts to establish self-sustaining churches

• The work occurs in culturally appropriate and locally relevant ways

* For WAGF understanding, this means cross-cultural workers are resident…