LIA Global Institute

We live in a rapidly changing world and the Institute serves as a catalyst for program innovation as to how to empower and capacitate the Church and Christian missional organizations to serve the poor with wholistic impact in the 21st century.

They have global implications. Some of the issues that LIA will continue to address but with greater intentionality include capacitating churches, national mission agencies, and national relief and development organizations to pursue wholistic impact and work with them to unleash their capacity to be a megaphone for the cause of mission. LIA will facilitate their growing understanding of the importance of the role of the Global South church in missional enterprises, specifically Africa, and the Biblical mandate to produce fruit that will last and how that can be done. 

Paternalism and post colonialism are still present in missiological conversations; establishing criteria for accreditation of the many smaller but fruitful “fragile” national missions that have the potential to excel in collaborative partnerships with Global North Christian entities in fulfilling the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.

Address the need for collaboration and breakthrough answers as to how best to pursue wholistic impact in fragile states and Christian minority settings: strategizing and developing praxis that will facilitate the spreading of the whole gospel to unreached and unengaged people groups. 

Support the Church in reclaiming her legitimate place and role in missions: continue to innovate with the implementation and promotion of a church-centered wholistic mission strategy [contextualizing the LIA Model] to meet the need of traditional mission agencies that are seeking to incorporate the Great Commandment seamlessly into their ongoing work and the need of traditional Christian NGOs that are looking for ways to seamlessly integrate the Great Commission in their ongoing work.  

The primary focus of the Institute is the capacitation of national churches and missional organizations so they can pursue wholistic impact and use their knowledge and experience to unleash the capacity of other national churches and organizations. Life in Abundance has been pursuing wholistic impact and the building of the capacity of national and local Global South Christian leaders for almost three decades.  Since 2020, the Institute has taken on this responsibility through a growing number of activities unleashing and trusts God to do this in an exponential way that will result in scale.