About
Our Mission. Our Vision. Our Ministries.
Start Here. Go Anywhere. Be the Change.
We exist to launch youth into lifetime missions involvement by training, discipling and mobilizing them to impact eternity around the world NOW. A large number of our alumni are in full-time Christian ministry serving the Lord worldwide as pastors, teachers, support technicians, and missionaries.
Celebrating 50 years!
From a one-car garage and a single team to Mexico, Teen Missions has grown into a global ministry with 30 bases in 19 countries.
Our History
Our Mission…
To inspire and equip a new generation to boldly proclaim salvation in Christ alone. — 1 Peter 2:9
Our Vision…
To serve the Church as a strategic resource for motivating, training, and mobilizing youth to fulfill the Great Commission. — Matthew 28:19 ESV
Our Core Values
Called to Make Disciples
Teens Missions emphasizes unity centered on the call to disciple youth and present them with opportunities and possibilities in world missions. Our organization follows the New Testament model of discipleship. Teen Missions’ leadership will train and mentor staff, volunteers and others to carry the ministry vision to the next generation.
—Matthew 28:18-20 —2 Timothy 2:2 —Ephesians 4:16
Common calling to World Evangelism
We are committed to world evangelism with priority on the proclamation of God’s Word and then the outflow of mercy ministries complementing that primary goal.
—Mark 16:15 —Luke 24:47 —1 John 3:17 —Deuteronomy 15:7-8
Committed to a Spirit of Grace
We must be accountable for our testimony and example as representatives of Jesus Christ and of Teen Missions. Our employees and volunteers are held to a high, Biblical standard and questionable conduct is handled in a spirit of love, humility and grace.
—1 Thessalonians 3:13 —Galatians 5:16, 22-25
Interdenominational Approach
Our staff, leaders and team members come from many churches and denominations. Thousands of teens and adults have seen, while serving with Teen Missions , that the body of Christ can work together for the furtherance of the Gospel despite doctrines that have historically divided believers. As important as these doctrines are, Teen Missions does not take a position on them because our specific calling is to challenge and disciple youth of all Bible-believing denominations concerning their personal walk with God, evangelism, and worldwide missions. We believe relationships built while serving together help heal some of the divisions that have divided the body of Christ. —Psalms 133:1-3
Partnership with the Local Church
Teen Missions’ pattern for ministry includes strategic cooperation with churches that share our conviction on biblical authority. Teen Missions, made up of missionaries sent from their own home churches, is itself an extension of the church to assist and equip churches in accomplishing the Great Commission. Internationally, we will engage and work alongside the local church to see that a biblical church model under national leadership is established.
—Colossians 1:18 —Eph 4:11-12. —Eph 2:19-22