Mission to the World

Mission to the World (MTW) is the mission-sending agency for the Presbyterian Church in America. This evangelical Christian organization believes in advancing the Great Commission by promoting Reformed and covenantal church planting movements using word and deed in strategic areas worldwide.[1]

Mission To The World
ClassificationProtestant
TheologyReformed evangelical
GovernancePresbyterian
OriginDecember 1973

Mission to the World has missionaries or international partners serving in 105 countries around the world. This includes 588 career missionaries, 69 short-term missionaries, 38 volunteer interns, and 290 trip participants.[2]

Dr. Paul Kooistra served as the coordinator from 1994 to 2014.[3]

On July 24, 2014 Dr. Lloyd Kim was appointed as the new coordinator.[4]

Locations

MTW missionaries serve all over the world, including the following locations:

Africa

Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda

Asia-Pacific

Australia, Cambodia, Guam, Japan, New Zealand and Pacific Islands, Taiwan, Thailand

Europe

Belgium, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine

The Americas

Belize, Bahamas, Canada (First Nations), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, United States (Native America)

Publications

MTW publishes one regular periodical. Network magazine comes out twice yearly and includes articles and pictures of MTW's work around the world. In addition, there is a bi-weekly MTW Online email that includes recent blog posts.[5]

Headquarters

The organization maintains headquarters in Lawrenceville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. MTW also has smaller hub offices throughout the United States, including California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Texas. The PCA ministry buildings in Lawrenceville are the location from which the ministries of the denomination are coordinated. These ministries are Mission to the World, Mission to North America, Committee on Discipleship Ministries, Administrative Committee, and Reformed University Fellowship.[6]

References
  1. http://www.pcanet.org/
  2. http://www.pcanet.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=16
  3. http://theaquilareport.com/te-paul-kooistra-elected-moderator-of-36th-pca-general-assembly/
  4. http://theaquilareport.com/pca-minister-lloyd-kim-nominated-as-mission-to-the-word-coordinator/
  5. https://www.mtw.org/resources
  6. "Contact_Us". www.mtw.org. Archived from the original on 2012-01-20.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.