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What is GCC?

The Great Commission Council, sponsored by Messenger Ministries, is a coalition of long-term missionaries from around the world who are dedicated to helping sending churches and mission agencies understand the greatest needs in modern missions. Though we come from various backgrounds and serve in different ways, we all agree on one central thing: the greatest need on the mission field today is to establish healthy indigenous churches. 

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    “I am encouraged so much by GCC that combines a heart for missions with a heart for the local church. Too often the mandate to bring the gospel to the nations is severed from ecclesiology, and GCC has stepped in to remind us that missions and the church are allies in the cause of the gospel.”

    DR. THOMAS SCHREINER, Professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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    “John Piper has famously said, ‘Missions exists because worship doesn’t.’ It follows that the aim of missions is to see indigenous churches enjoying Christ-exalting, Spirit-empowered worship both in their gatherings and their lives. That’s why I’m grateful GCC has worked to provide clarifying, theologically driven statements that will help those with a heart for missions ground cross-cultural ministry in the priority of the local church, both at home and abroad."

    BOB KAUFLIN, Pastor, Director of Sovereign Grace Music

  • "The GCC provides a much-needed voice from the missions field. I’m thankful for its commitment to biblical principles and missiological precision. Reaching & Teaching is privileged to partner with GCC in our mutual aim to see healthy churches established around the world!"

    RYAN ROBERTSON, President of Reaching & Teaching International Ministries

  • "GCC provides an incredible opportunity to work through modern-day mission ideas and needs. It has been a joy to collaborate and learn alongside many seasoned m’s serving all over the world. I’m super grateful for the emphasis on the local church in m work and the ways my own thinking has been challenged, sharpened, and encouraged by those I’ve had the privilege to work with."

    GCC MEMBER, Missionary in Asia Minor

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    "GCC gathers the right people together to have the conversations we need to pursue to advance the Great Commission faithfully, wisely, and biblically."

    RYAN FULLERTON, Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church

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