The Church
The Missions Summit
May 7-8, 2025 - Kansas City
in partnership with
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Join us for a discussion-based forum to learn and grow together. Engage with other church leaders and two local mission agencies to challenge your thinking, explore your questions, and discover practical resources that will help your church engage the Great Commission.
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If you have any questions about lodging, meals, or other details, please call us at 816.479.8500.
Your Church + Avant = Kingdom Impact
Imagine the Kingdom impact if churches and mission agencies worked together strategically to recruit, train and send church planting teams to the mission field. The result of this direct cooperation could produce more teams to plant more churches in less time.
Where There is No Church
Avant focuses on planting the church where there is no church. Our ever-changing world presents a sense of urgency that motivates us to be strategic and innovative. Avant’s church planting principles provide accountability and equips a team of missionaries to shorten the length of time it takes to plant a mature, nationally-led, reproducing church.
We believe the local church has an important role to play in all of this, so we place a priority on developing a relationship with churches who send out missionaries. Joint Venture was created as an opportunity for the church and agency to combine their strengths to plant the church among the unreached.
What is Joint Venture?
The typical Joint Venture team consists of six to ten adults from your congregation who train together in Avant’s method of church planting. The team will spend five to seven years planting churches in an unreached area of the world. Depending on location, the time could be shorter or longer to see a healthy church emerge.
Your church recruits a team from within the congregation, selects the field location, and creates a timeline for deployment. As your agency, Avant provides training, administrative details as well as a broad range of cross-cultural guidance.
Each Joint Venture team will be different because every church is unique. However, the goal is always the same: missionaries are sent, the gospel is preached and churches are planted!
Shared Responsibility
| Church | Avant |
| Biblical Training | Cross-Cultural Training |
| Discipleship | Leadership Development |
| Member Selection | Team Training |
| Field Selection | Field Structure and Oversight |
| Missionary Care | Member Care |
| Ministry Needs | Personnel Needs |
| Nurturing | Supervising |
| Communication | Communication |
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