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

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Ministries

Establishing Fellowships of Churches

Zambia – Martin and Grace Mulyata are our Zambian partners, overseeing the establishment of churches among the under-churched Lozi tribe in western Zambia and throughout the country. Through this partnership, over 20 churches with over 800 disciples have been established among this resistant people group. Other churches have been established in Chipata, Kabwe and Livingstone. The Followers of Christ Fellowship now has over 25 churches in the country.

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 30 independent, self-governing churches.

Mozambique – In 2008, AOM established a team in Inhambane. Scott and Lisa Harris and their children are guiding that team. By January 2010, two Brazilian families and a young single Brazilian woman will have joined the team. The goal is to make disciples that form simple house churches throughout the Inhambane Province and the nation.

South Africa – Allen and Janelle Avery are serving as disciplers and coaches for other Christian leaders in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Their goal is to form simple house churches through making disciples in their area.

Beyond – Our desire is to look next, with God’s leading, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Botswana. Our goal is to partner with national Christians for establishing churches among the under-churched peoples of these countries.

* AOM is starting a new fellowship of churches among the unreached Tonga and Tswa peoples in Mozambique. This ministry was begun in mid-2007.

* AOM is assisting related churches in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi to continue planting new churches. Through coaching their leaders, over 50 churches are being encouraged to plant daughter churches. Nine new churches were planted last year.

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 train the various church leaders under them. All materials are taught in a reproducible format. The key is re-teachable lessons that cascade throughout the churches.
• In South Africa, AOM has launched a program of training qualified pastors from Bible believing churches to teach an extension seminary course called BTCL (Bible Training Center for Leaders). The vision is to see training centers established in all the provinces of South Africa presently without the BTCL program.
• 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 being prepared in four local languages.
• AOM assists in the training of English speaking evangelical pastors in a non-accredited international theological course.

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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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