Every believer's part in the Great Commission

One of the great challenges for the mission of the church throughout history has been reaching those who have never heard. This was the desire of Paul. The churches that supported him through prayer and giving facilitated his apostolic calling. These supporting Christians operated in apostolic function.

In the world today there are 6919 unreached people groups (Joshua Project, accessed 3 February 2011, http://www.joshuaproject.net/download.php) in the world with an unreached population of 2.7 billion people.

While not every Christian may be called to go as an apostle to the unreached, every Christian can operate in apostolic function. The Kenya Assemblies of God (KAG) through its Department of Missions (KAGDOM) has a goal of equipping each of 1.3 million members to function in the apostolic. Every Christian and every church can help to reach the unreached through supporting, sending, informing, training, and interceding. Supporting: A giving program called tano-tano (meaning five-five, representing a small coin) was instituted in the 2009 General Council. This program encouraged every member of every KAG to give a minimum of five Kenya shillings per month to missions. Sending: KAGDOM missionaries are being sent to the unreached tribes of Kenya through the giving of KAG members. Informing: KAGDOM has produced brochures inviting those interested in trips to unreached peoples and becoming a missionary to get involved. Training: KAGDOM/EAST School of Missions began in early 2010 with a goal of developing church planting teams to be placed in each of the 25 least reached people groups of Kenya in the next decade. Interceding: KAGDOM has launched Bring Back King Jesus Prayer Institutes in twelve key locations across Kenya designed to inspire believers to pray for the unreached. The KAG recognizes the importance, as Paul did, to engage every believer in the task of reaching the unreached.

Every national church is unique. But all churches can take up the challenge of apostolic function. If every church and truly every believer did something to reach the unreached and support the efforts of those on the frontier, Christ’s desire for every tribe and language and people and nation would be accomplished.

KAGDOM School of Mission:

· Our passion:

o Launch viable indigenous church planting movements in the twenty-five least reached people groups of Kenya.

· Our Challenge:

o Finding God’s Strategies,

o Preparing God’s Laborers, and

o Harnessing God’s Finances

o To Accomplish God’s Desire

· Our Dream:

o By the year 2020 there will be viable indigenous church planting movements in each of the twenty-five least reached people groups of Kenya.

o By the year 2040 the twenty-five people groups will be permeated with Christians and have a burden to reach out to other people groups across North Africa and beyond.