Missions Organizations

Below is a list of missions organizations represented at Emmanuel's Missions Conference 2002:

Arab World Ministries (www.awm.org)
Keywords: Arab missions
Founded in 1881 and with offices all over the world, AWM is an interdenominational missions group focused on Christian evangelism to Arab Muslims worldwide.

Christar (www.christar.org)
Keywords: Reach the least-reached
Founded in 1930 to reach the least-reached in South Asia, Christar has radiated out into a broad-based missions and church-planting group working in twenty or more nations across the world.

Compassion International (www.compassion.com)
Keywords: Sponsor a child
Compassion International is a Christian channel to sponsor and support a poverty-stricken child in any of 22 countries, providing food, clothing, shelter, education, healthcare and Christian training needs with $28/month.

Interserve (www.interserve.org)
Keywords: Discipleship missions
Interserve is an interdenominational missions organization with offices in fifteen countries, focused on making disciples of Christ of unreached people in South and Central Asia, the Gulf, the Middle East, and North Africa, through long-term and short-term missions.

Philadelphia House (www.geocities.com/philhaus)
Keywords: Lifestyle witness
A house located in suburban Philly, Philadelphia House creates a Christian family environment where a small community of international students can live together and meet Jesus Christ through dinners, activities and daily communal life, as well as Bible study and prayer times.

Summer Medical Institute (SMI - www.thesmi.org)
Keywords: Medical missions and training
Every year SMI sends thirty healthcare professional students from across the U.S. on short-term missions to Mexico, South Texas, and North Philly, where they provide Christian witness and healthcare to locals and train for a career in healing service.

WEC International (www.wec-usa.org)
Keywords: Worldwide missions
Spawning from an African mission in 1910, Worldwide Evangelism for Christ is a 2,000-strong multi-denominational body of missionaries with long-term, short-term, sending and other areas of focus.