What if your profession is actually your mission field? In many unreached cities, traditional missionaries have no access—but professionals do. Teachers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and doctors carry credibility, influence, and daily presence. When faith is lived with integrity at work, the Gospel becomes visible, opening hearts across entire cities.
Learn how Islam is creatively expanding and engaging the next generation, presenting their faith as a peaceful, rational alternative to the western way of life in today’s complex world.
Bi-vocational workers are strategic for access to Muslim countries, and to model faith-and-work integration essential for the survival and growth of the Christian church in hostile environments.
Mark, Rob, and May share how teaching tech became a powerful way to bless the next generation and embody the gospel.
This summer, we ran a university IT boot camp with a team of four software engineers and 18 students.
In the mid-1990s, we began sending bi-vocational workers. As we study Scripture and church history, we realize that the bi-vocational model of integrating work and witness is truly “back to the future.”
Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), pioneering British missionary and founder of the China Inland Mission
Explore how we can deepen our personal knowledge of the Spirit
The Holy Spirit’s presence and work are essential to our faith, our walk with God, and our mission.
Holy Spirit, we welcome You. Help us to know You more.
The global landscape of missions is changing rapidly. The call to live out the Great Commandment and fulfill the Great Commission is more urgent than ever.
Have you ever considered how your work—whether in a classroom or a boardroom, behind a screen or across borders—could be the key to fulfilling the Great Commission?
Short-term missions are steppingstones to career missions overseas and springboards for mission education and mobilization back home. There are many types of short-term mission trips.
At our church, one of our core values is advancing multiplication, where we prioritize both sending our own members into the field as well as creating opportunities that mobilize more and more of our people.
Some missionaries would fast and pray during Ramadan for significant conversations with Muslims during this holiest time of year for them. Ramadan is a time of spiritual battle when conversions have been reported. We encourage Christians around the world to join forces with the Spirit in prayer.
Bob teaches English to international students, many of them from Muslim countries. He counsels every student in his weekly office hours and asks God to highlight whom he and his wife should reach out to.
Given the unique challenges of working in CANs, we need to employ creative and acceptable ways to connect with people and share our lives. If you want to learn more about Creative Access Nations (CANs), and how to equip yourself to serve in restrictive countries, contact us at info@goliveserve.org.
Creative Access Nations (CANs) are countries where traditional missionary work is restricted or outright banned due to political, social, or religious reasons. CANs used to be called “closed” countries. But being closed to foreign missionaries does not mean these countries are inaccessible.
We invite you to join us as we pray and invest in diaspora communities, marketplace leaders, and next-generation initiatives that demonstrate the Gospel in word and deed. Together, we can build a future where families, communities, and nations thrive under the lordship of Christ.
At the heart of missional work is the long-term investment in relationships. We are confident that by living generously and authentically, we can build bridges that transcend culture, time, and place. Our task is to be faithful to the call, to bridge into culture, and trust that God is working even in the smallest beginnings.
We want to channel tech and business resources to help start a Christian graduate movement that would strengthen churches and local ministries, and give young people hope and dignity through their faith and work.
One never knows what God has in mind. When I learn to throw away my “never” refrain, to say “yes” to Him, God kept surprising me with good things. I just need to trust Him and be willing to follow Him. There is great joy walking in His will. I’ve learned to never say “never.”
Have you ever told God what you would never do or what He should never expect from you? These “never” statements can come up in conversation among friends or they can be hidden in our private thoughts. They reflect our core values and concerns.
In Muslim-majority countries, young Christians like Fatima live with the tensions between their biological family and their spiritual family. Many defer the decision for Christ for fear of family and societal rejection. The stakes are high for converts.
It is divine grace that enables God’s people to endure hardship and persevere in injustice. God has promised that if we suffer with Christ, we shall also reign with him in glory. (2 Tim. 2:11-12) Among the global Christian population, Christians in Muslim majority countries come under the most pressure.
A core mission of GLS is to come alongside churches and organizations in unreached nations to serve their own people.
To effectively pray for missions, we ought to grow in prayer and continue to educate ourselves about missions. But do you sometimes get tired of praying or feel too tired to pray?
In 578 AD, Bertha, a Frankish princess was married to Æthelberht, ruler of the kingdom of Kent. Bertha was a devout Christian but Anglo-Saxon England was a pagan country. Her marriage to the pagan king was conditional upon her freedom to practice the Christian faith.
Our lives are a Christ-like fragrance rising up to God. But this fragrance is perceived differently by those who are being saved and by those who are perishing.
Like Hagar in the desert, Mohammed had experienced God as the One who sees and hears (Gen 16). So, he and his wife prayed. When they understood that it was indeed God’s calling for Mohammed to pastor, he wrestled with God for a year, but finally obeyed and enrolled in seminary.
