What is the AGMP?

Covenant, Missiological Statement, Initiatives, Statement of Faith

What is Anglican Global Mission Partners (AGMP)?
• AGMP is a network of 35 Anglican global mission-committed organizations and individuals including mission agencies, dioceses, missionaries, institutions, and jurisdictions in North America.
• AGMP is a voluntarily partnership that has relationships with various Episcopal and Anglican ecclesial structures committed to world mission, but is not within any of those structures.

What is AGMP’s Vision and Mission?
• Our vision is to see an Anglican Church in North America that is passionately committed to preach the Gospel and to make disciples of all nations in the name of Jesus Christ.
• Our mission is to collaborate with Anglican bodies in cross-cultural mission through exhorting, equipping, sending and receiving in ways that increase the impact of one another’s ministries and the entire Body of Christ.

Why is AGMP needed?
• AGMP was established in the Fall of 2003 to provide a network for biblical, mission-minded Anglican entities to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the very ends of the earth.

What does AGMP believe?
• AGMP believes and confesses that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
• AGMP believes the Bible is God’s Word Written and contains all things necessary to salvation.
• AGMP holds to the essentials of Anglicanism as outlined in the Book of Common Prayer, the 39 Articles, and the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral.

How is AGMP connected to the World Wide Anglican Communion?
• We seek to ignite and fuel global missions through Anglican Churches.
• We also commit ourselves to maintaining, rebuilding, and strengthening missionary relationships beyond the Anglican Communion.
• We eagerly anticipate a greater realignment among all Anglican churches committed to the primary authority of Scripture.

What core values does AGMP share?
• The Great Commission (Mt. 28:18-20, Luke 24-47, Acts 1:8) that declares all followers of Jesus Christ who seek to obey the Great Commandment to be the bearers of the Good News of God’s Kingdom and provides a mandate for Global Mission.
• The Pressing Reality that after nearly 2000 years we still do not yet see his Great Commission fulfilled, but do see much of the world languishing in spiritual darkness, need, and deep oppression.
• The Urgent Need to make disciples among those who have not heard and responded to the Gospel, especially among those who live in societies with few or no believers and among the young who live in increasingly post-Christian societies.
• The Overwhelming Evidence that God has raised up many entities to pursue fulfillment of the Great Commission through the Anglican Communion.
• The Irreplaceable Value of our partnership with Anglicans around the world who are a vital, growing force for the accomplishment of the Great Commission and the invigoration of Biblically faithful Anglicanism.
• The Understanding that collaboration among individuals, churches, dioceses, and agencies may tend to increase effectiveness in our common cause.

How do Anglican Global Mission Partners work together?
• We are not a new global mission hierarchy. We are a network.
• We intend to pursue all our joint initiatives through extant or emerging freestanding agencies or ecclesiastical bodies.
• We covenant to work together in every way possible to bless one another’s unique ministries, to create missionary partnerships, to encourage missionary vocations among young people, to raise up new generations of missionaries, to increase the efficiency and impact of our missionary endeavors, and faithfully to make disciples of all nations.

How is AGMP funded and organized?
• AGMP is funded through annual dues given by each member organization and gifts by individuals and churches committed to global mission
• AGMP holds two meetings annually in North America to promote collaboration in mission.
• AGMP is guided by a steering committee selected by lot from the partners.

How does an organization join AGMP?
• AGMP invites like-minded organizations to apply to affiliate with AGMP.
• Use this form to request the appropriate application to be sent to you. • Applications will be reviewed by AGMP’s Membership Committee.