About GlobeServe

GlobeServe is a global community of movement-oriented sending and training organizations committed to working together and sharing strategies and resources to reach the least-reached and unengaged people groups.

GlobeServe is organized by national Hubs working together in partnership toward specific goals.

A Brief History

GlobeServe’s roots go back to July 5-11, 1995. Representatives of church groups and training institutions from several nations were looking for a way to strengthen the training and sending of missionaries. A consultation meeting was formed and representatives from six international organizations came together:

  • Junta de Missoes Betania (Brazil)
  • Alas Naciones (Mexico)
  • Bethany International (USA)
  • Asia Pacific Mission (Singapore)
  • Escuela de Misiones Betania (Puerto Rico)
  • Bethany Fellowship (Philippines)

Thirty-three representatives from these agencies spent much time in prayer, worship, Bible study, and discussion.  They united to affirm the principles of partnership. Then they launched GlobeServe to express their belief that more can be accomplished in missionary training and sending together than through the respective agencies alone. 

The partnership continues to grow and expand through relationships of strategic value. Today it includes representatives of about 350 missionary training and sending organizations in 32 Hubs.

GlobeServe’s Goals

Over the years, GlobeServe leaders have set specific goals for the partnership to encourage focus and movement.

Current Goal

Move100: GlobeServe has adopted this goal to strengthen and increase global ministry effectiveness and field fruitfulness by seeking to establish

100 church planting movements among the 500+ UPGs we are engaging in by 2033.

Historical Goals

GO100: This goal to launch 100 new missionary training schools was adopted at the 2002 GlobeServe Triennial. Envisioned as a 10-year goal, it was so successful that its fulfillment was celebrated at the 2008 Triennial in Nairobi, Kenya after 122 new schools were added to the Partnership in just five years.

Field5000: at that time a new goal was adopted at the Nairobi Triennial to train and place 5,000 workers to plant churches among least and unreached peoples with a 5 year timeline.  By May of 2011 GlobeServe affiliated schools had trained more than 8,600 workers and the fulfillment of this goal was celebrated.  Members then agreed to pray into the possibility of adopting a new goal at the 2014 Triennial.

Engage500: the 2014 Triennial ended with a request that the GlobeServe ExCom/GTC finish the task of drawing up GlobeServe’s next generation goal.  In March of 2015, at the ExCom/GTC meetings held in Batam, Indonesia, Engage500 was adopted, which states: in addition to the 269 unreached people groups already engaged by GlobeServe members as of June 2014, an additional 231 unreached people groups will be engaged by the year 2020, bringing the total number of UPGs engaged to at least 500.

GlobeServe’s Theological and Missiological Agreement

GlobeServe members ascribe to the Lausanne Covenant as a broad statement of theological and missiological agreement. The Lausanne Covenant can be found here: The Lausanne Covenant.

GlobeServe Five Points of Agreement:

  1. A commitment to seeing disciples made, and churches planted and multiplied into exponential movements among least-reached peoples.
  2. A commitment to the GlobeServe philosophy of training which is practitioner-focused and competency-oriented toward what an effective and fruitful missionary should:
    • Know: The knowledge they should have.
    • Be: The spiritual life, traits, and characteristics they should exhibit.
    • Do: the life and ministry skills they should develop. 
  3. A commitment to trust the Lord by faith for resources.
  4. A commitment to sustainability as independent entities, and to the sustainability of the Hub in partnership.
  5. A commitment to interdependent participation – giving and serving as well as receiving and being served – within the GlobeServe family.

Financial Principles within GlobeServe

Each partner is responsible for their financial health.  Each partner will seek to ensure the financial health of the overall partnership.

Hub Objectives

Hubs form within a nation as a partnership to achieve the following objectives:

  • Partnership & Network Facilitation:  Hubs engage missionary training schools, churches, and missionary mobilization, resourcing, and sending entities within their region to form a network that shares resources, information, and strategizes together to reach unreached people groups.
  • Mobilization: Hubs mobilize a mission movement in their country or region hosting events to grow vision among churches for mission, reaching unreached peoples, and forming church-multiplication movements.
  • Missionary Training Program Development: Hubs assist in launching multiple missionary training programs in various areas of the country or region.  
  • Sending Structures: Hubs will help to develop sending structures through churches and denominations to send and support missionaries trained by programs within the Hub.
  • Movement Catalyzation: Hubs will work together to raise movement catalyst teams to serve among least-reached peoples with a vision to see exponential church planting movements.
  • Encouragement: Hubs provide vital relationships where like-minded Kingdom workers can encourage and be encouraged to grow, faithful persevere, and build up the whole Body of Christ. When those who are committed to the work of the gospel come together across entities, they can encourage one another in the work of the Kingdom.