History
In 2026, we celebrate the Lord’s faithfulness in empowering us to remain on mission for 40 years to Facilitate, Mobilize, and Inspire indigenous church leaders to propel the gospel across their homelands.
162,000+
souls placed their faith in Jesus Christ
2,250+
new churches planted
1,075+
indigenous disciple-makers supported
1/3
of the world’s Unreached People Groups live in our partners’ spheres
Our Story
Ed Todd, a retired missionary, envisioned an agency to fortify indigenous church planters. While teaching at a Bible college in Asia, Ed had seen students who had received scholarships were quickly forgotten by those sponsors after they graduated. Without guidance and assistance during the crucial early years of church planting, many pastors had to abandon their ministries and take secular jobs just to feed their families.
In 1986, Ed’s vision became what is now known as FMI. Its initials stand for the distinctive strategy to facilitate, mobilize, and inspire such “forgotten” disciple-makers. Since the time FMI has come alongside them, more than 1,000 qualified national church leaders have been propelled across areas which would have been hard to access by foreign missionaries.
Today, FMI serves as a bridge between Western Christians and indigenous church workers in some of the world’s most populous Muslim-dominant regions: Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh – the world’s three most populous Muslim-majority nations, Türkiye – the world’s largest nation unreached with the gospel, Kenya at the base of the Muslim-dense Horn of Africa, and now in Morocco and Afghanistan. When you partner with FMI, you share the gospel where nearly one out of every eight souls on the planet lives!
