The Great Commission Coalition was born out of prayer. Please realize that that statement is not made lightly. We first prayed long and hard about whether or not this ministry organization should be created, and about what its primary focus should be. Then we joined in prayer with many other believers, prayer warriors and intercessors, and ministry leaders that we knew all around the world. Together we prayed fervently about it for a season. Only in the end, and after much prayer, did we finally come to the conclusion that God was leading us to move forward with our plans.

The idea for The Great Commission Coalition (GCC) is a lofty one, and as a global effort, its task today is without a doubt God-sized. Through the GCC, we desire to help facilitate literally thousands of saturation evangelism and church planting projects around the world. We use the word 'facilitate' because, first of all, we are humbly trying to acknowledge that this is God's work, not our own. Secondly, we use the word 'facilitate' because we consider the GCC to be primarily a 'transparent' support organization.

As a support organization, our intent is to help provide financial and personnel support to other ministries and projects that have a heart and a burden to reach the world for Christ through saturation evangelism and church planting. The organizational structure of the GCC has been specifically designed to help accomplish this objective in a manner that will not unduly infringe on the autonomy of the projects or organizations we support. Within this framework, we believe that we are assuming a role that has desperately needed to be filled for a long time. (NOTE: The GCC is not primarily a sending agent. As such, it should be noted that we are not 'competing' with others, but are rather working to complement their efforts!)

The GCC was created to help supply an army of Christians across all faith-based denominations with the resources needed to implement various saturation evangelism and church planting projects. Our goal is simple…to help, and eventually see all of the peoples of the world reached for Christ's sake. We are working worldwide now to begin to combine and effectively distribute a portion of the resources of His people, both in terms of labor and finances, to this end. By helping the individuals, businesses, leaders, and churches participating with us to work together in harmony and unity, with a single-minded purpose, and in total cooperation, we believe that literally hundreds of millions of lives can be touched, and that their souls will be saved through the spread of the Gospel.

Jesus said to him, If you canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Mark 9:23

Many leaders among us comment that such a work, particularly in terms of building great unity, has never been successfully attempted before. We are undeterred, however, because we know that we are following God's instruction. Today, our faith remains strong because He is our anchor.

Having been previously involved in other ministry works, we have witnessed firsthand the kinds of problems typically associated with ministry efforts similar to that of the GCC. We have seen how difficult it has been in the past to build unity among the various churches and denominations around the world. We have also seen how hard it is to maintain a sense of forward momentum in those few instances where a degree of cooperation is finally achieved. It is our firm belief, however, that God is currently working on the hearts and minds of His people. He is softening their hearts and changing their attitudes. Furthermore, we believe that they are responding in earnest.

The Holy Spirit is at work. Individually, the very Family of God is being called to unity and prepared to work together. Admittedly, for reasons that include fear of change and loss of control, some of our leaders are not yet listening and responding corporately. That is the reason why we addressed this document to every Christian individually, because we are building from a grass-roots level. That may seem to be an old cliché by now; however, it is very appropriate in this instance.

We desire for every faith-based organization, agency, denomination, and church to join us in this effort. We welcome their involvement. In turn, we sincerely want to help support their outreach efforts in any way possible. However, it should be noted that we are not taking a trickledown approach to recruitment in The Great Commission Coalition, Inc. Instead, we are building from the ground up, individually, person by person. This is the model that Jesus gave nearly two thousand years ago for building the Church. This method is still relevant to the Church today, and we believe that we have been led to apply this same principle to the GCC effort as well. Ultimately, once our leaders see God's people stirred-up and on fire, burning to spread the Gospel cooperatively and in this manner, we believe they too will be moved to action.

Fire always attracts a lot of attention. Perhaps you will be the tiny spark that it takes to start one of those fires! There is a role and a responsibility for every willing Christian to fulfill in the GCC! The wonderful thing about this effort is that we can all be involved in a meaningful way. Rest assured that great results will be seen. Yet, the only one who will get any glory through our efforts is the Lord Jesus Christ!