Send Your Own Church-Based Team

What if your church community combined its resources (leadership, pastoring, teaching, financial, etc.) to send a whole team of long-term workers to serve together in one location?

Imagine how well you could care for your overseas workers if they (and you) focused your global efforts like a spotlight, reaching from your fellowship here in the U.S. to a specific Muslim people group!

Advantages for Senders

• Members of your church get more excited about supporting and praying for one or more whole teams from your own fellowship.
  
  It’s easier for your community:
• To track with your long-term workers and remember specific prayer requests.
• To feel personally connected with the whole team.
• To gain a deeper understanding of one Muslim people group, rather than a superficial understanding of many. Even if you choose to send multiple Church-Based Teams to different locations, your global outreach is still more focused than traditionally.
• To recognize that serving overseas is doable. (When a whole team from your church goes, it often inspires others to join them in fulfilling the Great Commission.)

• It can radically change pastoral care for your members on the field…and at home
• All the members of the team are accountable to your church, rather than to several churches scattered around the U.S. This gives the overseas team greater leadership and accountability as their mutual church influences the whole team's vision and direction.
• Your church will develop a closer bond with the people group that’s receiving the good news of Jesus. The sacrifice and suffering required from your team to make Him known may also prove to have a dynamic effect upon the people praying for this team. As the church prays and the team shares stories of God at work, many people will be edified in their faith.
• You only have to buy one plane ticket to visit several of your workers!

Advantages for your team overseas

• They bond better with teammates.
• Teams often form among people who are already friends or acquaintances.
• Since they are all from the same church, it's likely they'll have fewer theological conflicts.
• The team can train together from the beginning, rather than meeting each other for the first time shortly before boarding a plane to go overseas.
• Many of Frontiers’ training events can be brought to you and customized at your church. This reduces team members’ time away from work and family.

• They feel a much greater sense of support from home because:
• Your entire church community rallies behind them and their work in a greater way.
• They experience the power of more focused prayer support.
• If the team desires, they may choose to raise support together, rather than individually.
• When returning to the US to visit their supporters, your team won’t need to travel all over the country as much as traditional teams do, because most of their senders are centrally located in their home church!  This gives them more time for much-needed rest and relaxation

Find out more

Contact Frontiers’ Church-Based Teams at 800.462.8436.