Mission Statement

AOM’s goal is to start Disciple Making Movements:

• By AOM team members beginning Disciple Making Movements where they live, and,
• By envisioning and training Christians throughout Africa to start Disciple Making Movements, and,
• By developing coaching networks to encourage and further train those who are initiating Disciple Making Movements.
• So that, reconciliation and restoration of individuals, families, and communities can take place (Jer. 29:4-7, 2 Cor. 5:18-20).
• And to lead by example by looking after orphans and widows in their distress (James 1:27).

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Ministries

Establishing Fellowships of Churches

Mozambique – In 2008, AOM established a new missions base in Inhambane, Mozambique, when Scott and Lisa Harris and their children relocated from South Africa to Mozambique. In 2012, the team expanded with Jaco and Inge Le Roux from South Africa as well as Mandy Hunter and Mel Welch from England.

The goal of this new mission effort is to reach the unreached Tonga people of Inhambane Province. The team envisions making disciples that form simple house churches throughout the Province that will then spread through the entire nation. We are praying for a great outpouring of the Kingdom of God upon this people group that has been largely resistant to the Gospel and known for their witchcraft.

Zambia – Through a partnership with Martin and Grace Mulyata, AOM has helped establish a network of churches among the under-churched Lozi tribe in western Zambia and throughout the country. The Followers of Christ Fellowship now has over 25 churches in the country and several small congregations in neighboring Malawi. In addition to Mongu, churches have been started in key locations that across the country such as Kabwe, Chipata, and Livingstone.

AOM continues to assists the Followers of Christ Fellowship churches with yearly leadership and discipleship training.

Zimbabwe – Through the work and encouragement of Allen and Janelle Avery, a fellowship of churches has been developed in western Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Christian Fellowship now consists of over 30 independent, self-governing churches.

AOM assists the churches with yearly leadership and discipleship training.

Beyond – Our desire is follow the guiding of the Holy Spirit as to where AOM will expand to next. We believe that God lead AOM to the Tonga of Mozambique. As we pray, we believe that He will once again lead us, on His timing, to the right people groups and the right ministry partners who will work beside us to accomplish those tasks.

Leadership Training

The establishment of viable churches takes committed and trained evangelists and church leaders. To raise a body of these leaders, AOM works in the following areas:

• AOM has moved to a new paradigm for its leadership training, i.e. training only key leaders in Zimbabwe and Zambia. These men assign goals for themselves as to how they will in turn train the various church leaders under them. All materials are taught in a culturally appropriate and reproducible format. The key is re-teachable lessons that cascade throughout the churches.
• AOM will continue to participate in the development of contextualized leadership training materials. This biblical curriculum faithfully teaches God's Word and speaks to the concerns of African peoples. These materials are then produced in the local languages.

Orphan and Widows

AOM is committed to serve the widows and orphans through programs in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and Mongu, Zambia.

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Statement of Faith

We believe that:

• The sixty-six canonical books of the Bible as originally written were inspired of God, therefore free from error. They constitute the only infallible guide in faith and practice.
• There is one God, the Creator. God exists eternally in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
• God created Adam and Eve in his own image. By disobedience, they fell from their sinless state through the temptation by Satan. This fall plunged humanity into a state of sin and spiritual death, and brought upon the entire race the sentence of eternal death. From this condition we can be saved only by the grace of God, through faith, on the basis of the work of Christ and by the agency of the Holy Spirit.
• The eternally pre-existent Son became incarnate without human father, by being born of the Virgin Mary. Thus, in the Lord Jesus Christ, divine and human natures were united in one Person. He lived a sinless life and died on the cross as a substitute for all mankind's sins, shedding His blood for the remission of sins. On the third day He rose from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father, where He performs the ministry of intercession. He shall come again, personally and visibly, to complete His saving work and to consummate the eternal plan of God.
• The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Triune God. He applies to us the work of Christ and empowers us for service. The "fruits" and "gifts" of the Spirit are a product of His ministry in every believer.
• Baptism is a command of the Lord Jesus to every disciple. New Testament baptism was by immersion and signifies the believer's participation in the death and resurrection of Christ.
• The Church is His Body and is composed of all those who are in Christ. There is only one universal Church, made up of all saved individuals. Therefore by definition it is nondenominational in its very nature.
• When we have turned to God in penitent faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we are accountable to God for living a life separated from sin and characterized by the fruit of the Spirit.
• At the end of the age, the bodies of the dead shall be raised. The righteous shall enter into full possession of eternal bliss in the presence of God, and the wicked shall be condemned to eternal death.

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ECFA

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Vision

• AOM's vision is to partner with the African church to establish new fellowships of churches in every country of central and southern Africa.
• AOM's primary target is to reach under-churched people groups in this area.
• AOM's desire is to establish churches devoted to holiness, obedience to Christ, small group accountability, and a vision to evangelize their people and beyond.

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