AFM is a missionary society that sends missionaries to plant indigenous churches among the largest and least evangelized peoples in the world. Although 67 generations of Christians have lived and died since Jesus' resurrection, more than 7,000 ethno-linguistic people groups comprising 3 billion people are still unreached with the gospel. This Unseen 1/3rd of the world has little-to-no geographic and/or cultural access to the gospel. AFM works alongside churches, mobilizing them to send short- and long-term missionaries to do pioneer, frontier missions in areas where a viable and visible church still does not exist.

Our Vision

Our vision is to do frontier missions Anglicanly,

Planting biblically-based, multiplying, indigenous churches and dioceses where the church is not yet established, among the 3 billion people and 7,000 unreached people groups still waiting to hear the gospel for the very first time.

Partnering with members of the worldwide Anglican Communion and other Christians who live near or among unreached peoples, AFM equips and sends short- and long-term missionaries who harness the spiritually formational power, practices, and rhythms of the sacraments, liturgy and the prayer book tradition to disciple believers from Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, animistic, and secular backgrounds. Join us!

Our Values

PRAYERFUL

We fervently look to the Lord in prayer for our discernment, direction, and decisions.

STRATEGIC

We apply strategic thinking and the strategy coordinator model to church planting among unreached people groups.

INDIGENOUS

We honor and appropriately adapt to the cultures of indigenous people.

COLLABORATIVE

We value cross-cultural and cross-denominational collaboration among Christian for achieving our mission. AFM is a member of the Anglican Global Mission Partners.

RELATIONAL

We value people and desire the fellowship of the Spirit to permeate all our relationships.

Our Logo expresses AFM’s vision sacramentally through color and shape. The orange in AFM's logo represents the fire of the Holy Spirit falling upon unreached people groups. The blue globe represents the priestly ephod, and thus the priestly ministry of our cross cultural workers who "declare the praises of him who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light" (I Peter 2:8-9). The globe highlights the Eastern Hemisphere where the vast majority of unreached peoples are located, and purposely includes Europe, a new frontier in missions.

The shape of AFM’s logo, when traced around its perimeter, presents the logo in the shape of a key, an extremely important Biblical metaphor. Peter, upon whom Jesus built the Church, was given the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 16.19) and AFM’s mission is to unlock the chains of bondage which enslave the unreached peoples at the ends of the earth. AFM has the keys of anointing, support, network, knowledge, purpose, training, history and determination to help every segment of the Anglican Communion to be a meaningful part of completing the Great Commission and doing it Anglicanly.

Our Story

In 1993, the Reverend Tad de Bordenave founded AFM in Richmond, Virginia. A well-respected leader and pastor in the USA, Tad took a 15-week class called, “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement." The course changed his life. He realized that there were 1.6 billion people outside the Anglican Communion without access to the Gospel. After 13 years as senior rector of St. Matthews Church, Richmond, he resigned his position to begin Anglican Frontier Missions at the age of 49.

Now, decades later, AFM has sent out hundreds of missionaries. We go to the the ends of the earth, to the areas least-reached with the Gospel, and to peoples with little-to-no cultural and/or geographical access to the Gospel.