Global Epicenters Shake the World for Christ

AIMS News: Posted 4/1/2006

Ethiopia & Horn of Africa

Since 1996, AIMS has partnered with the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Ethiopia (ECFE) to train leaders and missionaries to begin a missions movement within their country. During these ten years, revival has spread throughout Ethiopia, including the Ethiopian Rift Valley.

Although Ethiopia has a strong Christian heritage, many of her surrounding countries like Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Northern Sudan are not. More than half of the 400 people groups in the Horn of Africa do not have any church influence among them. Members of the ECFE believe that Ethiopia is strategically placed to reach Northern Africa and the Middle East.

The Horn of Africa Epicenter will focus on the missions force already present in Ethiopia. AIMS will continue to equip leaders of the ECFE with the tools they need to mobilize and train their 542 missionaries and more than 10,000 field workers already working among unreached villages to more effectively share the Gospel within the cultural context of the people and plant churches among them. Additionally, AIMS will help the ECFE develop its own missionary training schools and network with believers living in other countries within the Horn of Africa.

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India

With more than 4,000 unreached people groups, India is one of the world's largest mission fields. Christians within this Hindu nation have the opportunity to share the Gospel with people in India and neighboring countries like Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and even the Middle East.

AIMS will continue to work with existing partners to train pastors and missionaries in India to reach the unreached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In addition to training national leaders in mobilization strategies, AIMS will unite partners to work together to provide Mobile Medical Clinics to treat India's 100 million children who live below India's poverty line, purchase food staples like rice for the many leper colonies, and dig wells of water for villages that have no consumable water. By working together on these humanitarian projects, churches and missionaries will have access to villages that they would not previously have been able to enter.

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The Malay World

Southeast Asia is home to more than 340 million unreached people. The original inhabitants of the region, the Malay people inhabit seven of the eleven nations throughout Southeast Asia and are considered the largest unreached people group in this region. A majority are Muslim. Yet, within this difficult epicenter, a strong Church has risen with a passion to share the Gospel with her neighbors.

During the past several years, AIMS has worked with church networks, Bible schools, and other partners in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These four countries are key regions to reach the Malay people and other people groups in this region. AIMS will continue training leaders in each of these four regions and help them establish missionary training schools, develop business endeavors to fund their missions efforts, and network together to reach the least reached people groups throughout Southeast Asia.

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Tanzania

Located in East Africa, Tanzania borders Kenya, Mozanbique, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo and is home to more than 36 million people whom have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Known for its slave trade industry, Tanzania also has a considerable missionary force for evangelism. With 45% of the country Christian, Tanzanians have the potential to impact East Africa with the Gospel.

Dividing the country into seven regions, the Tanzania Epicenter will focus on mobilizing the national church to form partnerships to reach the remaining 31 unreached people groups in their nation and deploy missionaries to countries around them. AIMS will train pastors in Harvest Connection, Church Planting Movements and compassion ministry initiatives like providing clean water, raising awareness of AIDS prevention, constructing homes, and starting businesses.

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The United States

A political world superpower with millions of Christians, the United States is the world's largest missionary sending country. Although the world missions force is shifting from traditional first world countries like the United States to developing third world nations (countries in Asia and Africa), churches in the United States still have a unique and crucial role to play in completing the Great Commission.

For the past twenty years, AIMS has used Harvest Connection and various other seminars to mobilize pastors, church leaders, and congregations to become more involved in cross-cultural missions. Focusing on churches that embrace the Renewal Movement, the US Epicenter will create partnerships with denominations and church networks around the United States to mobilize the American Church.

Throughout the next five years, AIMS hopes to increase awareness of strategic opportunities in global missions through Harvest Connection seminars and creative media outlets like radio, print, and the Internet, as well as connect interested churches and individuals with the mission field through Philip 8.4.8 outreaches and AIMS Associates Training.

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