Your Profession Can Carry the Gospel to the Cities That Need It Most

GLS equips bi-vocational missionaries to serve the unreached through their work and calling.

Our History

Decades of Sending Professionals to Closed Countries

GLS was founded by leaders with deep experience mobilizing students and professionals for global mission. The founding vision was direct: send skilled professionals into the cities of Asia and the Middle East where the gospel has not yet taken root — not despite their careers, but through them.

Across decades of field work, that vision has never shifted. GLS has built a network of missional professionals across business, technology, education, healthcare, and social enterprise — people who didn't leave their careers behind, but took them to the frontier.

Your profession is not an obstacle to mission. It is the way the gospel enters cities that would otherwise remain closed.

The Mission Model:

Work as Mission — Your Career Is the Key

Many Christians carry a quiet tension — a sense that their career and their faith are running on separate tracks. GLS exists to close that gap. Work as Mission makes your profession the point of entry into cities across Asia and the Middle East where the gospel has little or no presence.

Professionals from every field—business, technology, healthcare, education, the arts, and more—take their careers to the frontier. Their work opens doors, and their relationships create opportunities for gospel presence.

Who we Send:

Every Field Has Cities That Have Not Been Reached

GLS welcomes professionals from a wide range of sectors — because every field opens doors that others cannot. The cities of Asia and the Middle East need exactly what you already do.

  • Entrepreneurs and business executives

  • Teachers and educators at every level

  • Technology and IT professionals

  • Healthcare workers and counselors

  • Nonprofit and social enterprise leaders

If your career gives you credible access to an unreached city, GLS wants to talk with you.

Our Faith Statement

What We Believe

GLS holds to the historic Christian faith. Our theological convictions align with the Lausanne Covenant — affirmed by the worldwide Christian community as a standard for evangelical mission in the modern world.

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280+

Bi-vocational missionaries
sent and pastored.

Our Impact

More than half the world lives in cities — the same cities where the gospel has the least presence. GLS's mission has always been city-based, sending professionals into the economic, educational, and cultural centers where the need is greatest. The network spans both sides of the Pacific, in partnership with scores of North American churches.

35+

Years walking alongside
missional professionals

20+

Industries
represented

1000+

Short-termers deployed across 7 creative-access countries