Our mission statement gives substance to our vision and helps us stay focused when setting goals and making choices about how we function in our context.

Today, the Western church seems to be caught in an irresolvable tension between being appealing while also being a disciplined and discipling community. While we affirm the church’s desire to be warm and welcoming, we also desire a church community capable of confronting principalities and powers; a community that serves as an effective witness to God’s vision to transform all things.

This vision, and our own experiences with Christ’s transforming love, carry us into three tiers of work, as expressed in our mission statement:

Christ’s transforming love compels us to
     cross cultures
     engage the world
     and make disciples of Jesus

Cross cultures (Philippians 2:5–7)

We recognize that God has given us a specific focus for working in cross-cultural contexts. Today, cross-cultural relationships are happening everywhere. This is leading EMM to reach out in the Northeastern United States as well as internationally.

In all cross-cultural interactions, we go with Jesus’ posture of humility and service. At the same time, we are clear about our identity in Christ and our desire to share Him with all people.

Engage the world (Colossians 3:17)

We want to experience life fully with others, as Jesus did. We seek to engage in activities that are beneficial to the surrounding community. We desire to help people express their gifts and callings in ways that will be a blessing to the world and a testimony to Christ’s transforming love.

We are fully engaged to bless the world as Jesus did, and as so many of His followers have done since.

Make disciples of Jesus (Matthew 28:19)

The words of Jesus to “make disciples of all nations” stirred the founders of EMM and continue to provide the focus of our organizational life and daily work.

We desire to follow Jesus’ example of making disciples by proclaiming the message of His kingdom to the world, and also by cultivating relationships in which we share our lives with those around us. In this posture, we all grow together into the life of Jesus. We desire to see the multiplication of transformative communities of Jesus followers that seek to make more disciples by radiating the love of Christ throughout the world.

We know that accomplishing this mission is a task bigger than any one organization. That’s why through partnerships, collaboration, and networking, we hope to see, more and more, everyone moving in mission.