“I must be about My Father’s business” (Luke 2:49).
Jesus’ mission was and remains to reconcile humanity to God and secure righteousness throughout the universe, to share the true and good news about God and His love and character, to heal those with broken hearts and lives and to deliver those who are in bondage by our adversary. Likewise, His Great Commission to His followers is to go out and make disciples with the mission to teach others how to know Him and abide with Him through obedience, baptism and the replication and extension of His love to others.
In faithful response, the Seventh-day Adventist Church arose out of a movement to share the soon return of Jesus and how to live one’s life in preparation for an eternity spent with Him. In the latter 1800s, the church further embraced God’s call to make disciples of all nations as it began to take the gospel around the world.
Then, in 1985, a new mission-sending organization was born, Adventist Frontier Missions, reaching beyond just country borders and on to every people group still unreached by the gospel.
Today, Adventist Frontier Missions establishes indigenous Seventh-day Adventist church-planting movements among unreached people groups worldwide. In its 40-year history, AFM has sent hundreds of career, short-term and student missionaries to nearly 70 projects on four continents. Upon project completion, AFM hands thriving churches over to the greater body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
We at AFM continue to keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus, serving Him in His Great Commission and letting Him write our next chapter as His return draws ever nearer.
Should we not all be about our Father’s business? Join us in reaching the unreached. Pray. Give. Go.
