Where to begin: Mission in the Anglican Communion

Are you just starting in missions?
Or, do you have the opportunity to teach someone who has never learned about missions in the Bible?

One great way to engage in mission is to partner with local and indigenous Anglican churches and diocese around the world. Learn more about the worldwide Anglican communion and missions here and explore active partnerships on our partners page.

Explore

This is the place to start with basic Biblical teaching, missions overviews, and information on the Perspectives course (one of our personal favorites). We encourage you to explore, learn, and prayerfully respond to the prompting of the Holy Spirit.  

  • Anglican Global Mission Partners Mission Match, use this form to fill out your areas of interest and get a list of Anglican Global Mission Partners (AGMP) that have opportunities that match your interests. To learn more about AGMP and to see the full list of partners, click here.

  • Check out Perspectives’ online courses. Perspectives help believers from all walks of life see how they can get threaded into God’s story of redeeming people from every tribe, tongue, and nation to Himself. 

  • Global Frontier Missions offers Online Missionary Training School, a self-paced cross-cultural training program. Get classroom instruction along with practical hands-on ministry and mentoring from your personal facilitator. Experience online mentoring and cross-cultural training at your own pace and in your own space.

  • The Anglican Church of North America. The ACNA unites 134,000 Anglicans in 1,062 congregations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a single Church. 

  • GAFCON. The Gafcon movement is a global family of authentic Anglicans standing together to retain and restore the Bible to the heart of the Anglican Communion. Our mission is to guard the unchanging, transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim Him to the world. 

  • AAC’s Anglican Traditions video series will deepen your understanding of a global, orthodox Anglicanism built upon the rock of the God's Word, in a historic sacramental tradition, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Each series touches on a different aspect of the faith to encourage your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to give you the tools you need to reach out to others. 

Videos

Did you know that the Global Anglican Communion is the third largest denomination in the world?

OMF’s overview video of a series of six additional segments designed to help Christ-followers more effectively show His love for all people from home, community and around the world.

Rev. Bill Haley speaking about the three things the North American Church can do to engage with the global church.

Anglicanism, despite all its faults, is a supremely contextualizable faith tradition that can practically assist new believers from Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and tribal backgrounds in spiritual formation, church worship forms (liturgy), providing a tradition within which to follow Jesus, and above all, in making Christianity their own.Learn more about AFM at anglicanfrontiers.com

Bp. Rennis Ponniah speaking on “How we approach Missions”

What Is God's Heart For All People? Overview of the Perspectives course.

Pastor Chris Lazo of Reality Santa Barbara explains the opportunity before the church for engaging unreached people groups and what we can do about it.

Read

Reading is a critical part of learning. Here are some great books, blogs, magazines and other publications that will give a foundation in missions, stories from past and current cross-cultural workers, and thoughts on current issues impacting missions globally.

PathLight, explores God's unchanging purposes and investigates how His global plan is unfolding in our generation.

This book explores immigration and migration, which are creating new opportunities, from both ecclesiological and missiological perspectives.

Best practices to fund cross-cultural partnerships with integrity, mutuality and transparency, foster dignity, build capacity, and work for long-term sustainability.

Dr. Yaw Perbi shares yesterday's story of global mission and his personal call from medicine to mission and from Ghana to the global stage.

North Americans can adapt our missions to impact our changing world and build effective partnerships with Majority World Churches.

Blogs & other publications

Listen

Check out these awesome podcasts and recording!

  • Missio Nexus’ The Mission Matters Podcast, a place to talk about the importance of our Mission as Christians. Mission Matters is a partnership of Missio Nexus and Sixteen:Fifteen Missions Coaching, who have a shared passion to mobilize God’s people to be a part of His mission.

  • Facilitating the Mission Podcast, an archive of podcast episodes from Shepherd’s Staff, a ministry powering global missions in the local church.