TEAM
The international home office of TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission) provides support for over 700 missionaries serving in many countries, all over the world. There is connection from the time a person contacts the office expressing an interest in mission work throughout their career. Examples of service areas located in this office are new member development, short-term mission support, medical, finance, counselling, center for life-long learning, church relations, and field support. Approximately 65 employees are located in the international office.
TEAM?s
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Revised and Adopted May, 2001
A. PURPOSE
The purpose of TEAM is to help churches send missionaries to establish reproducing
churches among the nations to the glory of God.
B. VISION
We will work together to reproduce the body of Christ wherever the most people have the
greatest need.
D. DEFINING VALUES OF TEAM
1. God dependence. We subject our lives to the truth of Scripture, and we rely on God
through prayer. God provides what is necessary to carry out world evangelization.
While only God can save, we speak His words, use His gifts and reflect His love.
Without constant reliance on God through prayer and obedience to His Word, we can do
none of these things.
2. Church focus. Our work is focused on the church from beginning to end. We engage
existing churches in cooperative efforts to establish new churches worldwide and then
encourage those churches to establish even more new churches.
3. Vision. Christian visionaries see the immediate future in light of eternity. We see the
day when the people of God from every tribe, tongue, people and nation will be
gathered around the throne of heaven, worshipping Him. Keeping our eyes on this
vision, we are adaptable and flexible, gladly changing methods when appropriate.
4. Passionate service. Because lost people matter to God, they matter to us. We go to
serve, not to be served. We work where the gospel is least known because we have
been commanded to do so, and because people?s ultimate need is to find eternal life
through a personal relationship with God.
5. Lifelong learners. Character and competence are both indispensable. None of us
starts with complete maturity or fully developed skills. Through lifelong learning and
development, we increase our effectiveness and become what God already knows we
can be. We seek to empower all TEAM personnel to reach their full potential.
6. Caring community. People are our most valuable asset. We in TEAM relate to each
other in a community characterized by unity, trust, acceptance and diversity, linking
arms with God?s people wherever we find them. We are accountable to one another,
evaluating ourselves regularly. The more we are a caring community, the more we
demonstrate peace and brotherhood to a world torn apart by divisive hatreds.
F R O M E V E R Y W H E R E T O E V E R Y W H E R E The Evangelical Alliance Mission
PO Box 969 Wheaton, IL 60189-0969 www.teamworld.org info@teamworld.org 800.343.3144
TEAM Statement of Faith
TEAM is an evangelical, non-denominational,
international mission whose purpose is to help
churches send missionaries to establish reproducing
churches in other nations to the glory of God. TEAM
has over 750 missionaries serving in more than 40
countries.
TEAM Statement of Faith
? We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New
Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God,
without error in the original writings, the
complete revelation of His will for the salvation
of man and the divine and final authority for all
Christian faith, life, and conduct.
? We believe in one God, Creator of all things,
infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three
persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
? We believe Jesus Christ, without any change in
His eternal deity, became man through
conception by the Holy Spirit and virgin birth,
that He died on the cross, a perfect and complete
sacrifice, in our stead and for our sins according
to the Scriptures. He arose bodily from the dead,
and ascended into heaven where at the right
hand of the Majesty on High, He is now our
High Priest and Advocate.
? We believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit is
to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this
age to convict of sin and regenerate the sinner
upon believing in Christ, at the time of
regeneration baptizing the believer into the one
body of which Christ is the Head; and to
indwell, guide, instruct, fill, and empower the
believer for godly living and service.
? We believe that man was directly created by God
in His own image, but fell into sin. The entire
human race is, therefore, lost and only through
repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, and
regeneration of the Holy Spirit, can salvation and
spiritual life be obtained.
? We believe that the atoning death of Jesus Christ
and His resurrection provide the only ground of
justification and salvation for all who believe, and
that only such as receive Jesus Christ by personal
faith are born of the Holy Spirit and by Him are
sealed to the day of redemption.
? We believe in the personal, premillennial return of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and that the hope of His
appearing has a vital bearing on the personal life
and service of the believer.
? We believe in the bodily resurrection of all the
dead, of the believer to everlasting blessedness and
joy with the Lord, and of the unbeliever to
judgment and everlasting and conscious
punishment.
? We believe that the Church is composed of all such
persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ
have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are
united together in the body of Christ, of which He
is the Head.
? We believe that water baptism and the Lord?s
Supper are ordinances to be observed by the Church
during this present age. They are, however, not to
be regarded as means of salvation.
? We believe that all the saved should live in such
manner as will honor and glorify and not bring
reproach upon their Savior and Lord, and that it is
commanded of God to remain separate from false
doctrines, and sinful pleasures, practices, and
associations.
? We believe in the existence of angels who worship
God and minister to believers. We also believe in
the existence of Satan, the devil, a fallen angelic
being, who with his demons opposes God, His
people, and His work, but over whom Christians
can have spiritual victory.
