Our Story | The Beginnings

In 2023, the first Missions Collective (In FXBG) was launched—a group of former missionaries, pastors, and ministry leaders who had previously been involved in coordinating Perspectives. They saw the need and opportunity to do more together, collaboratively, across many different church backgrounds, with the goal of mobilizing their city for greater missions engagement. We believe the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few, and that if we, as a movement of local churches, work together, we can accomplish so much more in the hardest-to-reach locations. So, we’ve made our platform open source and available for anyone in new cities to leverage if they feel a similar burden to work together and advocate for the unreached. We hope you’ll join us, and if you do, we are in your corner, ready to help you launch your city’s Missions Collective. Hear the full story here.

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What We Believe

(Our Doctrinal Position)

The Nicene Creed is the position we hold to as we collaborate with churches of various theological leanings.

We believe in one God, the Father, the almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Guiding

        Values

  • Our lives should be marked by a sense of utter dependence on God for the work He has called us to do. Prayer is our greatest expression of that dependence.

  • From Acts 13, we learn that it is the local church that sends cross-cultural workers! We are here to serve the church in that endeavor.

  • Research has shown that relationship is the pathway to meaningful change. Our task is urgent, but we engage with joy! We believe the whole Church is called to the urgency of seeing the Gospel advance to the ends of the earth. We play our role as a community of friends; fun and humor are a valued feature, and all are invited to join us!

  • Our mission emphasizes reaching unreached people groups. The goal assumes an exit plan through development of indigenous leadership & sustainable movements in the culture. 

    (See https://joshuaproject.net/resources/articles/hijacking_unreached and https://joshuaproject.net/help/definitions for further clarity on “unreached” people groups.)

  • Jesus made it clear the harvest was plentiful but the laborers were few. His response was that we would pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send more workers. We pray and we act toward that goal.