Mission and Distinctives
GFA Mission
Our mission in life is to be devout followers of Christ and to fulfill the Great Commission among the unreached in Asia through training, sending out and assisting qualified laborers in partnership with the Body of Christ.
GFA Distinctives
100 percent of Support Dollars Sent to
the Field
When a donor sends in the monthly support for their
missionary, nothing is deducted for administrative purposes--100% is sent
directly to the mission field for its intended purpose.
Focusing on the Unreached Our focus and goal as a
ministry is to reach the 2.7 billion people in the 10/40 Window who have never
heard about the love of God. In India alone, there are over 500,000 villages
with no Gospel witness.
Training and Sending Native Missionaries Native
missionaries have few or no cultural barriers to overcome. They can readily
share the Gospel with those who, unlike their western counterparts, have never
heard. While national workers do face difficult obstacles as they take the
message from village to village, they still have an enormous advantage over
their coworkers from North America and other non-Asian lands.
GFA currently has 54 Bible colleges where nearly 9,000 students are preparing
to become full-time church planters among those who have never heard.
Tremendous Results by God's Grace
Because of their faithfulness and willingness to sacrifice, native missionaries have been able to share the love of Jesus Christ with literally millions of men, women and children who never before heard His name. Across Asia today, believers in tens of thousands of congregations worship the Lord in places where no church existed before.
But none of this has come easily. Our native missionaries are paying a high
price of suffering, hardship and intense persecution to see churches
established.
The churches planted in each culture are truly indigenous in character,
self-governing, self-propagating and, as soon as possible, self-supporting.
Training Tomorrow's Leaders at the GFA Biblical
Seminary Over 600 students now attend Gospel for Asia Biblical
Seminary in India, where they are being trained to become devout followers of
Christ and to fulfill the Great Commission in
Asia.
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