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Independent Christian ChurchKontaktmissionKontaktmission USA sends missionaries, plants churches, trains leaders, and partners with local believers through a multinational…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Kontaktmission
Kontaktmission — Organization Profile Kontaktmission USA is a Christian mission organization based in Humboldt, Tennessee, connected with the international Kontaktmission movement headquartered in Germany. The organization describes itself as a networked mission movement that empowers Christians worldwide to live out…
Kontaktmission — Organization Profile Kontaktmission USA is a Christian mission organization based in Humboldt, Tennessee, connected with the international Kontaktmission movement headquartered in Germany. The organization describes itself as a networked mission movement that empowers Christians worldwide to live out their God-given callings and sends them out for the building up of Christ’s church. The organization’s core focus is sending missionaries, planting churches, training leaders, and multiplying self-supporting churches in areas with little or no Christian witness. Kontaktmission’s mission is summarized as “Send. Plant. Multiply.” Its public materials describe a purpose of sending missionaries to places with limited Christian witness, training and supporting local workers, and establishing churches that can eventually send missionaries to plant more churches. Kontaktmission serves from…
Kontaktmission — Organization Profile
Kontaktmission USA is a Christian mission organization based in Humboldt, Tennessee, connected with the international Kontaktmission movement headquartered in Germany. The organization describes itself as a networked mission movement that empowers Christians worldwide to live out their God-given callings and sends them out for the building up of Christ’s church.
The organization’s core focus is sending missionaries, planting churches, training leaders, and multiplying self-supporting churches in areas with little or no Christian witness. Kontaktmission’s mission is summarized as “Send. Plant. Multiply.” Its public materials describe a purpose of sending missionaries to places with limited Christian witness, training and supporting local workers, and establishing churches that can eventually send missionaries to plant more churches.
Kontaktmission serves from Humboldt, Tennessee, with ministry connected to Europe, Eastern Europe, and other countries through an intentionally multinational team. Its U.S. site emphasizes partnership with the international team in Europe and describes Europe as a major ministry focus. Kontaktmission USA exists as a platform for sending American missionaries and involving American churches and individuals in the wider mission movement.
The organization operates through full-time missionary sending, short-term trips and internships, training, church planting, pioneering ministry, networking, leadership development, and support for local workers. Its core-values materials describe church planting as its primary objective, while also noting evangelistic and support ministries, assistance for local believers, training for churches and small groups, and leadership education that can include Bible schools where needed.
A distinctive part of Kontaktmission’s model is connecting missionaries, churches, local believers, and ministry partners across national and cultural lines for more effective church planting and gospel work. Its materials emphasize flexibility, creativity, partnership, local decision-making, and cooperation with existing ministries rather than isolated work. Kontaktmission also highlights the value of helping Christians discern their calling and find places to serve according to their gifts and preparation.
People can engage with Kontaktmission by praying, giving, partnering with the ministry, exploring full-time missionary service, joining a short-term trip or internship, receiving ministry updates, supporting Ukraine relief, or contacting staff about training and partnership. Churches and individuals can also support missionaries, request information about European missions, and participate in the organization’s broader work of sending, planting, and multiplying.
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Independent Christian ChurchDisciple MakersDisciple Makers serves unreached and unengaged people groups through evangelism, church planting, national evangelist support, training,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Disciple Makers
Disciple Makers — Organization Profile Disciple Makers is a Christian mission organization focused on helping fulfill the Great Commission among unreached and unengaged people groups. Its stated mission is to make Christ-followers who produce Christ-followers among the nations of the…
Disciple Makers — Organization Profile Disciple Makers is a Christian mission organization focused on helping fulfill the Great Commission among unreached and unengaged people groups. Its stated mission is to make Christ-followers who produce Christ-followers among the nations of the world. The organization works through evangelism, church planting, national evangelist support, leadership training, short-term trips, internships, and technology-based training. Disciple Makers is based in Latonia, Kentucky, and its ministry serves Africa, Asia, Latin America, Guatemala, the 10/40 Window, and unreached people groups around the world. The organization began in 1989 and is supported by churches and individuals who partner with its mission to help fulfill the Great Commission of Christ. The ministry’s work is shaped by a focus on unreached…
Disciple Makers — Organization Profile
Disciple Makers is a Christian mission organization focused on helping fulfill the Great Commission among unreached and unengaged people groups. Its stated mission is to make Christ-followers who produce Christ-followers among the nations of the world. The organization works through evangelism, church planting, national evangelist support, leadership training, short-term trips, internships, and technology-based training.
Disciple Makers is based in Latonia, Kentucky, and its ministry serves Africa, Asia, Latin America, Guatemala, the 10/40 Window, and unreached people groups around the world. The organization began in 1989 and is supported by churches and individuals who partner with its mission to help fulfill the Great Commission of Christ.
The ministry’s work is shaped by a focus on unreached and unengaged people groups. Disciple Makers highlights the remaining task of global evangelism and states that more than 7,000 people groups are still considered unreached with the gospel. Its vision includes planting new indigenous churches, empowering national workers, and developing sustainable ministry among people who have limited access to the gospel.
Disciple Makers operates through several connected strategies. Its Adopt an Evangelist program allows churches and individuals to support nationally trained evangelists with prayer, financial support, encouragement, and possible field visits. The organization also promotes adopting unreached people groups, sponsoring Internet Training Centers, and supporting field workers who serve in difficult-access contexts.
Technology and training are also important parts of the ministry. Disciple Makers uses Internet Training Centers to train lay pastors and prepare workers for ministry among unreached communities. Its core values include dependency on God, clear direction, national empowerment, technology, church planting, sustainability, and accountability to prayer and financial partners.
People can engage with Disciple Makers by praying, giving financially, adopting an evangelist, sponsoring an Internet Training Center, participating in short-term trips, applying for internships in Africa, Asia, Latin America, or Puentes, supporting missionaries, or contacting the ministry about unreached people group engagement. Donations may be made online or through the organization’s Latonia, Kentucky office.
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Independent Christian ChurchTeam ExpansionTeam Expansion is a Louisville, Kentucky-based missions agency multiplying disciples and churches among unreached peoples through…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Team Expansion
Team Expansion — Organization Profile Team Expansion is a Christian missions agency focused on multiplying disciples and churches among unreached peoples. The organization is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, at Emerald Hills—its 61-acre campus designed for prayer, retreat, and learning. Team…
Team Expansion — Organization Profile Team Expansion is a Christian missions agency focused on multiplying disciples and churches among unreached peoples. The organization is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, at Emerald Hills—its 61-acre campus designed for prayer, retreat, and learning. Team Expansion’s stated vision is “to see obedient disciples in every people and place,” and its work centers on helping followers of Jesus participate in the Great Commission through practical pathways for going, sending, and praying. Team Expansion describes its ministry as being “born out of extraordinary prayer,” and that emphasis remains central through its Prayer Force and prayer resources. The organization’s core ministry aim is reaching unreached populations (defined on their site as 5% or less evangelical) through evangelism, church…
Team Expansion — Organization Profile
Team Expansion is a Christian missions agency focused on multiplying disciples and churches among unreached peoples. The organization is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, at Emerald Hills—its 61-acre campus designed for prayer, retreat, and learning. Team Expansion’s stated vision is “to see obedient disciples in every people and place,” and its work centers on helping followers of Jesus participate in the Great Commission through practical pathways for going, sending, and praying.
Team Expansion describes its ministry as being “born out of extraordinary prayer,” and that emphasis remains central through its Prayer Force and prayer resources. The organization’s core ministry aim is reaching unreached populations (defined on their site as 5% or less evangelical) through evangelism, church planting, and disciple-making movements. Team Expansion also notes a commitment to working in teams, coaching, and accountability, including a stated expectation that each worker provides supporters with a monthly report on progress, time, and money.
A distinctive part of Team Expansion’s work is training. Through its “Strategies & Training” approach, Team Expansion equips individuals and churches with tools for disciple-making in a variety of contexts—locally and globally. Examples highlighted by the ministry include disciple-making movement training (including Jonathan Training), digital strategies that use online platforms to connect spiritually curious people with local believers, marketplace ministry that integrates vocation with mission, and Community Health Evangelism (CHE) as a holistic approach that addresses physical, social, and spiritual needs through community-led solutions.
Team Expansion also provides multiple on-ramps for engagement, especially for those exploring cross-cultural ministry. Their “Find Your Mission” pathways include full-time missions, internships (Pathways), the Quest missions apprenticeship, short-term trips, and other roles that help prospective workers take next steps with guidance and preparation. The organization’s training and support structure is designed to help workers thrive long-term and to serve alongside local believers in places where access to the gospel is limited.
In its public history overview, Team Expansion traces its beginnings to a 1978 prayer meeting and the sending of its first team to Uruguay in 1982. The organization reports that it has sent more than 1,000 workers to 70+ fields, including creative-access locations. That global scope reflects Team Expansion’s commitment to supporting disciple-makers where traditional ministry access may be limited, while also encouraging churches and individuals to participate through prayer, giving, and sending.
People can engage with Team Expansion by joining the Prayer Force, giving through the general Impact Fund or toward specific workers and projects, and exploring opportunities to serve. Churches can also connect through partnership and coaching options. For those looking for a clear next step, Team Expansion emphasizes starting a conversation—learning what roles and training may fit, and then moving forward with the support, coaching, and accountability the agency provides.
