- New Mission Systems International
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New Mission Systems International or NMSI for short is a non-profit international Christian missions organization. Based in Fort Myers, Florida the organization was founded in 1989 by the Brune Family. Ralph and Cheri Brune were long time missionaries for Christian Missions Fellowship when they hatched the idea for a new way to do missions.[1] Each word in the name of the organization represents something vitally important to the organization. New represents the new and changing approach NMSI does evangelism to keep up with a constantly changing world.[2] Mission signifies the central goal for NMSI which is to bring together God with the world and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.[3] Systems is the way they holistically and systematically analyze the countries they go into to find the best way to evangelize the gospel to the people.[4] International represents their belief that all people should be able to hear the gospel no matter where they live. NMSI is founded on the non-denominational church movement and acts according to non-denominational principles.[5]
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Impact
NMSI has sent missionaries into twenty eight countries and six continents since it’s founding in 1989.[6] Currently they have missionaries in twenty seven countries and in six continents.[7] These are a list of countries and regions they have missions in: North Africa, Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Uganda , Australia, Timor Liste, Bulgaria, England, Estonia, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, East Asia, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Mexico, United States, Haiti, Panama, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador.[8] Although most of their missionaries are American, NMSI has missionaries from eighteen different nationalities working for them.[9] New Mission Systems International has many different projects world wide specifically tailored to the need of the community or country they are in. Some of their programs include working with youth in Chile, ministering to the lost gypsies in Bulgaria, creating agricultural inroads in the Central African Republic, setting up leadership clinics in Myanmar so they can go out and train other people in surrounding villages to be leaders in the church, working closely with a church in Brazil to send their own missionaries overseas, and helping out orphans in Kenya who have HIV/AIDS.[10]
Africa Hope
New Mission Systems International created a program called Africa Hope which ministers to many different African countries such as North Africa, Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Uganda , Zimbabwe.[11] Africa Hope has five main sub ministries a church ministry, a ministry for orphans and at risk children, a ministry to improve the education systems, a ministry for education on alternative food and water techniques, a ministry to mobilize health care to rural areas as well as health education.[12]
Youth Hope
Youth Hope is a ministry NMSI also created specifically targeting youth around the world to not just meet the spiritual needs but also their mental and physical needs as well. This program helps train and educate willing community volunteers to be youth leaders in their communities.[13] In an effort to improve the youth’s lives, Youth Hope also helps improve the community they are ministering to by education, creating jobs, training people to own their own businesses, alternative energy, clean water, and agricultural training.[14] Youth Hope also creates awareness on global youth issues in churches and small groups in the United States with their Isaiah 61 conferences.[15]
Impacto Latino
Impacto Latino is the newest ministry of New Mission Systems International founded January 1, 2010.[16] The main goal of this ministry is to plant churches in Latin America. They do this by evangelizing, discipleship, pastoral care, leadership training, and administering to both spiritual and physical needs of community and churches in the community.[17]
Short Term Ministries
NMSI has several short term mission projects in compliment to their long term ministries such as Africa Hope, Youth Hope, and Impacto Latino. These projects are not just for NMSI workers but anybody who is willing to go on a short term mission trip lasting from ten to twenty one days. For people who high school age and older.[18]
Funds
NMSI has a budget of about seven million dollars a year mainly based on donations.[19] Approximately seventy seven percent of these funds go towards NMSI mission programs around the world.[20] About seventeen percent go towards administrative expenses, and five percent of the earning go towards fundraising expenses.[21]
Work Place
New Mission Systems International was voted one of the Best Christian Work Places for 2010.[22] Missionaries have to undergo a ten week training program called COAT (Community Orientation, Assessment and Training) before going to do mission work out of the country.[23] COAT is a ten week program that includes intense seminars, mentoring, and workshops to help them be more equipped to fundraise and for doing mission work in the field.[24] This training is undergone at NMSI’s home base in Fort Myers, Florida at the Center for Global Outreach or CGO for short.[25] All workers including missionaries, office staff, maintenance workers and even the president of the organization have to raise their own support to work there.[26] One hundred and ninety eight missionaries are currently employed with New Mission Systems International, and are in various stages of training, fundraising, and deployment to countries.[27] NMSI is prospected to have four hundred more missionaries deployed in the next ten years.[28]
Chief Executive Officers
The first Chief Executive Officer was Ralph Brune from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety eight. Brune passed on the Chief Executive job to Phil Hudson who held the job from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and eight.[29] This job was held by Jonathan Whitney after Phil Hudson and then Tim Dammon in 2009, and is currently held by Laura Clancy on an interim basis.[9][30]
References
- ^ Hudson, Phil. "New Mission A Vision for Global Ministry." Horizons. May–June 2006. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. <http://www.missionservices.org/horizons/2006_05.pdf
- ^ Metzger, Jeffrey A. "Chief Executive Officer/President." The Dingman Company :: Consultants for Executive Selection. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.dingman.com/SRCH_NMSI_CEO.html>.
- ^ Metzger, Jeffrey A. "Chief Executive Officer/President." The Dingman Company :: Consultants for Executive Selection. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.dingman.com/SRCH_NMSI_CEO.html>.
- ^ Metzger, Jeffrey A. "Chief Executive Officer/President." The Dingman Company :: Consultants for Executive Selection. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.dingman.com/SRCH_NMSI_CEO.html>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. 13 Dec. 2008. 7 Dec. 2010 http://www.nmsi.org. web.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ Hudson, Phil. "New Mission A Vision for Global Ministry." Horizons. May–June 2006. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. <http://www.missionservices.org/horizons/2006_05.pdf
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
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- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ Youth Works. "Short-Term Mission Agencies F-N." Youth Specialties. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/short-term-mission-agencies-f-n/>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Metzger, Jeffrey A. "Chief Executive Officer/President." The Dingman Company :: Consultants for Executive Selection. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.dingman.com/SRCH_NMSI_CEO.html>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Charity Navigator. "Charity Navigator Rating - New Mission Systems International." Charity Navigator - America's Largest Charity Evaluator | Home. 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10203>.
- ^ Metzger, Jeffrey A. "Chief Executive Officer/President." The Dingman Company :: Consultants for Executive Selection. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.dingman.com/SRCH_NMSI_CEO.html>.
- ^ Metzger, Jeffrey A. "Chief Executive Officer/President." The Dingman Company :: Consultants for Executive Selection. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.dingman.com/SRCH_NMSI_CEO.html>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
- ^ New Mission Systems International. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.nmsi.org/>.
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