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AIMS Refocuses International Mobilization Strategy on Global Epicenters

AIMS News: Posted 4/1/2006

For more than twenty years, AIMS has mobilized and equipped churches and church movements around the globe to launch initiatives to reach the worldís least reached people groups. During those years, we have developed lasting partnerships with key leaders and organizations throughout regions that have the potential to greatly increase the Kingdom of God.

As AIMS enters a new era of ministry, our team has decided to focus our efforts on six key regions that could impact the world for Jesus Christ and bring the completion of the Great Com-mission within our reach.

"Throughout the next several years, we will focus on areas that we call epicenters," said Daniel Crosby, president of AIMS. "We believe that these epicenters will be focal points through which the earth will be shaken and the unreached will be reached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Building on the foundation begun by Dr. Howard Foltz, founder and CEO of AIMS, Crosby has developed a five-year plan to mobilize India, the Malay World, the Horn of Africa, Tanzania, and the United States to become strategically involved in advancing the Gospel throughout their respective regions and eventually the world.

What is an Epicenter?

For many of us, the images of the Asian Tsunami are still etched in our memory. A single earthquake off the coast of Indonesia rippled throughout the Indian Ocean and sent a wall of water crashing into more than a dozen Asian and African countries. In an instant, millions of lives were changed forever. Those who survived that devastating day in December will carry the memory with them the rest of their lives. Within a few hours, the shockwaves of the disaster had reached around the world, and each person who heard the news was somehow changed.

What if the Gospel could make a similar impact, but in positive manner? What if true revival began in key regions and began to spread throughout the world - not missing any nation, tribe, or tongue? What if every person who heard about the Good News of Jesus Christ was changed for eternity?

At AIMS, we believe this could happen. Building on existing partnerships within each region, AIMS will train key leaders, church networks and denominations to network together and begin massive church movements among unreached people groups within that epicenter that will rapidly expand throughout each region. Each ripple effect has the potential to impact hundreds of tribes and villages that have never once heard the Gospel.

For the next several years, AIMS will focus 80% of its worldwide mobilization efforts on developing these six epicenters. AIMS will continue to use Equipping for the Harvest conferences to train key leaders and church networks within each region, but each epicenter will have a unique strategy. AIMS will continue to use 20% of its time to develop partnerships and train leaders in other regions around the world.

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