Global Gates Executive Director Opportunity Profile

DISTINCTIVES
Urban
The world is going urban while mission endeavors have largely remained rural. Missionaries often live in
cities, but focus their efforts in rural areas which they perceive to be more open to the gospel. However,
over half of the world is already living in cities and this number will surpass 66 percent by 2050 (United
Nations World Urbanization Prospects Report, 2014). Global Gates is focusing on what the world is
becoming—an urban world!
Diaspora
The world’s people are on the move. Globally, over 272 million people currently live away from their
home country (United Nations, 2019), but the numbers are even larger when you add the children of
immigrants, those who lived abroad and then returned home, and those who have internally migrated
within their own countries. Global Gates is focusing on a new era of missions aimed at reaching a world
already connected through global diaspora relationships.
Unreached People
Approximately 40 percent of the world’s peoples remain unreached by the gospel (Joshua Project,
2021). Nowhere is there a greater concentration of unreached peoples than in cities. Global Gates
is focusing on the unreached in these cities who have been neglected or written off as too difficult to
reach. We seek to start churches among peoples who do not have one. And when they do have a
church, we want to help them multiply a movement of disciples and churches that will transform their
community with the gospel.
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UNREACHED
Discovering and Implementing Best Practices for Disciple-Making Movements
We are trusting the Lord to bring about disciple-making and church-planting movements among
unreached peoples in and through gateway cities. Global Gates is committed to best practices that
the Lord is using around the world, seeking His guidance in how best to adapt and implement these
methods for reaching unreached peoples in global gateway cities.