Who We Are
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, one-fourth of the world has almost no chance of hearing about Jesus from someone in their own people group.
Frontier People Groups, a subset of unreached people groups (UPGs), have 0.1% or fewer (less than 1 in 1,000) who identify with Jesus in any way and no confirmed sustained Kingdom or church planting movements. These are the “most unreached of the unreached.”
AFM works alongside churches, mobilizing them to send short- and long-term missionaries to do frontier, pioneer missions in areas where a viable and visible church still does not exist.
OUR VISION
To do frontier missions Anglicanly,
Planting biblically-based, multiplying, indigenous churches and dioceses, among the 4,800 Frontier People Groups with an aggregate population of 1.9 billion where the church is not yet established.
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, tribal, and secular backgrounds. Join us!
wHAT IS THE
10-40 window?
The 10/40 Window is the rectangular geographical space between the 10th and 40th latitudinal lines in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Inside and around these lines live the vast majority of the world’s Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and animist people groups.
More significantly for followers of Christ, the 10/40 Window is an area of great spiritual need, with no active Christian presence among many indigenous peoples or presence of foreign cross-cultural workers. That means that roughly 3.02 billion people, making up 62% of the 10/40 Window’s population, live without access to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
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When we at AFM refer to the 10/40 Window, we refer to the people of the world who are still waiting to hear about the saving grace of Jesus. This is the global window most in need of faithful Christ followers to come and share the hope we have in Jesus.
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.
OUR VALUES
RELATIONAL
We value people and desire the fellowship of the Spirit to permeate all our relationships.
PRAYERFUL
We fervently look to the Lord in prayer for our discernment, direction, and decisions.
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.
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.
OUR
STORY
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.