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About CGMI Global Missions Academy

The Global Missions Academy is a practical training platform that aims at equipping and developing believers as cross-cultural messengers of the Gospel.

The Academy engages in a one-year intensive program designed to prepare individuals with the spiritual and cultural knowledge, personal character, and hands-on experience to make them effective in the missions work.
We specifically train individuals through personal spiritual development, academic study of scriptures and other resources with strategic planning.

The Academy provides practical tools for Christian leaders to thrive in the mission fields within and beyond their orbit.

Missionaries need practical tools to help them thrive long-term. The tools we provide—in language acquisition, cultural adaptation, communication, and leadership—will help to shift the paradigm of each student.

OUR VISION

To raise a generation of passionate Christian leaders equipped with knowledge and skills to transform the world through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

OUR MISSION

Training, mentoring, and producing world-class Christians with a holistic approach to the global mission mandate of the church. This involves a balance of classroom and community-based training with ministry skills to bring the message of hope and redemption to the world.

Our Vision-Embodied Commitment Is Achieved By

The Global Missions Academy will help the church develop a culture of missions, where members are encouraged to personalize the great commission by reaching out to those who are far from God and sharing the love of Christ with them. This will help the entire church become more strategic, organic, and mission-minded.

The Academy will provide practical training for church members to be effective witnesses for Christ and those interested in serving as missionaries – either short- term or full-time. They will learn cross-cultural communication, evangelism, and ministry in different contexts. Students will receive necessary and valuable guidance for all areas of life and ministry while being trained and serving on the mission field.
The Academy will help members of the church deepen their faith and grow in their relationship with God. By studying the Bible and learning about soul- winning, they will be better equipped to share their faith with others and become more effective disciples.
The Academy will provide opportunities for members of the church to build relationships with people from other cultures and backgrounds. This will help break barriers and promote greater understanding and unity in the body of Christ.

OUR CHRISTIAN VALUES

The Global Missions Academy’s core values are the DNA that drive our movement. We are committed to being:

Biblically Focused

At GMA, we love the Bible and want to spend time in the Scripture hearing from the Lord so that His Word guides us as we host short-term mission trips, train missionaries, and make disciples of all nations.

Kingdom Minded

GMA emphasizes working together to take the gospel to all nations. The Great Commission will be fulfilled only when we unite to see Christ glorified throughout the whole earth. Our focus is HIS GLORY! Therefore, we work in conjunction with different churches, organizations, denominations, and individuals to focus on building Jesus’ Kingdom and making a name for Him rather than for ourselves.

Lifelong Learners

GMA staff are in constant learner mode. We read books, attend conferences, glean insights from field missionaries, and compare notes with other churches and organizations. We value creativity and trying new things, not afraid to “fail forward.” We humbly share what we learn, encouraging one another toward personal, spiritual, ministry, and professional growth, as we remain teachable in all circumstances.

Spirit Led

GMA believes that absolute dependence upon the Lord is essential in order to produce lasting fruit. We recognize our need of conviction of the Holy Spirit, His gifts, His fruit, His prayers, His counsel, and His power to be able to take the Good News to all nations. GMA strives to live out Ephesians 5:18, “being filled” always with His Spirit, putting off our old man and putting on the new, not grieving the Holy Spirit but ministering in His power.

Strategic Disciple-Makers

GMA is firmly dedicated to making and equipping disciples who will make other disciples (disciple-making movements) and planting churches that will plant other churches (church planting movements) among the remaining unreached people groups of the world. We constantly teach others to teach others (2 Timothy 2:2) and focus heavily on equipping and empowering the body of Christ.

We always look to reproduce ourselves while trying to work ourselves out of a job. At GMA, we seek to live and minister in ways that are easy for others to follow and imitate as we serve internationally among the unreached people groups we try to reach. The simpler we keep our Christianity (Jesus is Lord, love God, and love others), the easier it is to instill believers with a Kingdom lifestyle.