WHO WE ARE
OUR MISSION
Equipping and enabling believers of the gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide, by partnering with local churches in evangelism, to share His gospel with unbelievers and make disciples.
OUR PURPOSE
The purpose of International Commission is to share the redeeming love of Jesus Christ with the unbelieving world to make disciples.
OUR STORY
In 1971, a farmer in West Texas named Ben Mieth led a team of 45 members from First Baptist Church Seminole to participate with churches in Mexico in a week of evangelistic visits, Bible schools, and nightly evangelistic services. They experienced miracles, launched a new church, and saw about 1,500 people accept Christ that week! A few months later, leaders from other churches in Mexico came to Seminole to invite Ben to send more teams to work with them in the same way. This time, Ben recruited ten American church teams to work with ten Mexican churches, and again many people professed faith in Jesus during that project. The following year, twenty churches in another region of Mexico made the invitation, and IC was officially established as an organization.
Since that time in 1973, IC has been equipping and enabling believers in Jesus Christ worldwide to reach unbelievers and make disciples. We have worked in over 179 countries, planted hundreds of new churches, mobilized thousands of believers to share the gospel, and introduced tens of millions of people to Jesus Christ.
What We Do
IC equips churches to send out short-term teams to work in evangelism and discipleship with hosting churches worldwide
IC handles the training and logistics for the sending churches and hosting churches involved in international partnerships.
IC provides training and materials for preparation, evangelism, and discipleship
IC equips and enables believers worldwide to carry out evangelism within their own countries through National-to-National partnerships
HOW WILL AN EVANGELISM PARTNERSHIP IMPACT ME?
What Pastors Are Saying:
What Participants Are Saying:
I have seen so many decisions for full-time ministry involvement.
In 30 years of full-time service I have never seen God’s outpouring like this.
I have witnessed strengthened personal relationships with Christ, and a new love for Him and a real faith in Him!
This week has been filled with so many stories of people whose lives have been changed because of our team’s willingness to follow God’s Spirit.
I never believed God could use me to lead this many people to Him!
I have seen so many decisions for full-time ministry involvement.
The book of Acts just came alive as we saw God performing miracles and saving people everyday.
Every Christian should do this. This is what being a Christian is all about.
Our Staff & Partners
INTERNATIONAL LEADERS
Key to accomplishing our Great Commission call are the international leaders who serve around the globe alongside our US area strategy team, the team who open doors and coordinates the ministry overseas. They are pastors or local Christian leaders who have joined us to train and mobilize believers in their region to share the gospel and make disciples. Their work involves everything from logistical planning for international partnerships to organizing and facilitating N2Ns. It is only their leadership that makes our ministry possible, especially in undisclosed countries where merely being a Christian endangers their lives and Americans cannot enter.
USA STAFF
The North American staff members who serve on our Mobilization Team, Area Strategy Team, and headquarters Planning and Strategy Team are people from all walks of life who have been impacted by the ministry of International Commission and have dedicated themselves to equipping and enabling believers worldwide to reach unbelievers and make disciples. They work with Christians overseas to establish new ministry partnerships and projects, mobilize and train leaders and participants, resource partnering churches, and conduct the essential and strategic administrative tasks.
OUR LEADERSHIP STAFF
BRENT EDWARDS
PRESIDENT
Donovan Fredricksen
Vice President, Finance & Administration
mark goode
Vice President, development
j.t. hilyer
Vice President, mobilizationlaura meloti
Vice President, area strategy team
Our Board of Directors
JAMES L. CAFFEE, JR.
Aerospace Engineer | Atlanta, GA
LaVERNE GARRETT
Retired, Amarillo National Bank | Magnolia, TX
BRANDON GARTRELL
GIS and Software Development | Glen Rose, TX
WADE GATES
Chair | General Manager | Allen, TX
DON JACKSON
Lawyer | Amarillo, TX
RICK LINEBERGER
Senior Pastor | Glen Rose, TX
SUSAN MOSS
Retired, BB&T | Danville, VA
MARK S. RINDELS
Senior Pastor | Grass Valley, CA
CHAD SELPH
Senior Pastor | Allen, Texas
JOHN STROHMAN
Attorney | Pierre, South Dakota
MARGIE WILLIAMS
Retired, Accountant | Magnolia, Texas
IC Ambassadors
Join the nationwide growing group of IC Ambassadors!
As a past trip participant, we offer you the opportunity (and some exclusive goodies and discount!) to use your experience and IC passion to help spread the word about International Commission. Choose from participating in an E&E Training, to posting on social media, or sharing your IC experience with a group. We will equip & enable you to go and tell, so we can continue to go and tell!
Ready to join? Simply fill out the application to get started!