Our mission statement reads “Pioneers mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church planting movements in partnership with local churches.”
Pioneers eight core values are:
1. passion for God
2. unreached peoples
3. church planting movements
4. ethos of grace
5. the local church
6. team centered
7. innovation and flexibility
8. participatory servant leadership
In this reflections I will focus on the fifth and sixth core values: the local church and team centered.
THE LOCAL CHURCH. Pioneers holds a high view of the local church. We are not only a church planting organization, we see the local church as an essential partner in the work of world evangelization. My work through ACMC is an excellent example of Pioneers commitment to partnership with the local church. “ACMC helps churches mobilize their resources for effective involvement in world evangelization.” By serving the mission leaders in local churches with the practical issues they grapple with, ACMC helps local churches meaningfully involve their congregations with the least reached around the globe.
TEAM CENTERED. In an age in which so many churches and organizations have become enamored with corporate models, Pioneers has not. We are not a top down organization, with a command center in Orlando from which everything is controlled and managed. Pioneers has a decentralized leadership structure built around empowered teams. Those higher up on the organizational chart on the field and in Orlando see themselves as servants to those who are laboring at a grass roots level. Our field teams operate with high levels of autonomy, guided by the mission and core values of Pioneers. Everyone in Pioneers is part of a team, with no lone rangers.
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