Africa: Teach and Reach

The global missionary landscape is changing rapidly. Today, the majority of the world’s Christians live in the Global South—countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America—positioning these regions as a key force in the future of missions.

This moment presents a significant opportunity for the African church to step into a greater role in cross-cultural missions. While many churches are eager to send, sustainable and accessible pathways for deployment are still limited. Financial constraints, underdeveloped sending structures, and restricted access to certain regions make it difficult for willing believers to go.

Often, the real challenge isn’t calling or readiness but finding a sustainable way to get to and stay on the mission field.

The need is clear: practical, scalable models that move people from readiness to deployment.

The Teach & Reach Initiative (TRI) is designed to meet this need. This 12-month pilot in Kenya will equip and deploy five Christian teachers as marketplace missionaries in least-reached communities.

By securing legitimate teaching positions, these educators can sustain themselves financially while building meaningful relationships and engaging in gospel witness.

Through a structured process of research, assessment, training, deployment, and evaluation, TRI will test and refine a model that is both strategic and reproducible.

The impact of this initiative extends beyond the first year. In the short term, TRI will demonstrate whether marketplace missionaries can achieve financial sustainability, legal access, and meaningful ministry engagement in least-reached contexts.

Over the long term, this model has the potential to unlock a new wave of self-sustaining missionaries from Africa and beyond—expanding access to regions where traditional pathways are limited while strengthening local churches as active sending communities.