Mission Statement
A New Approach to Foreign Missions
1. Christian Aid seeks to establish a witness for our Lord in every tongue, tribe and nation (Rev. 5:9) and to encourage and strengthen evangelical Christian witness in countries where Christians are persecuted or few in number.
2. Christian Aid locates, evaluates and sends financial help to indigenous evangelical ministries which are serving the Lord primarily in countries closed to foreign missionaries.
3. Christian Aid continually appraises indigenous mission groups, examines their doctrinal statements, and evaluates the fruits of their ministries. We make sure they are accountable and provide financial statements regularly.
4. Christian Aid encourages American Christians to help these indigenous missions evangelize their own people. As we receive offerings from U. S. Christians, we send them to indigenous missionary ministries in poorer countries. Then they send out native missionaries, who are getting the job done at a fraction of the cost of traditional missions.
Description
Christian Aid is generally considered to be the first missionary agency to support and promote indigenous mission groups. It has been the catalyst behind the present reformation in foreign missions methodology.
Over the years, Christian Aid has provided more than $100 million in assistance to more than 800 evangelistic ministries based in 122 "mission field" countries overseas. These boards deploy a combined total of 80,000 missionaries serving in the most unevangelized nations of the world.
