New Mission Systems International or NMSI for short is a non-profit Christian mission sending agency that exists to proclaim Christ and make disciple globally. Based in Fort Myers, Florida the organization was founded in 1989 by the Brune Family. Ralph and Cheri Brune were long time missionaries for Christian Missionary Fellowship when they hatched the idea for a new way to do missions. Each word in the name of the organization represents something vitally important to the organization. New represents the new and changing approach NMSI does evangelism to keep up with a constantly changing world. Mission signifies the central goal for NMSI which is to bring together God with the world and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. Systems is the way they holistically and systematically analyze the communities they go into to find the best way to bring the gospel to the people. International represents their belief that all people should be able to hear the gospel no matter where they live. NMSI is founded on the non-denominational church movement and acts according to non-denominational principles.
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Impact
NMSI has sent missionaries into more than twenty countries on six continents since its founding in 1989. Although most of their missionaries are North American, NMSI has missionaries from eighteen different nationalities serving with them. New Mission Systems International has many different ministry projects world wide specifically tailored to the need of the community or country they are in. NMSI strategically focuses its efforts in five ministry areas: church multiplication, global youth ministry, marketplace ministry, community transformation and short-term mobilization.
Ministries affiliated with NMSI
AfricaHope, founded in 2003, exists to transform lives in rural Maasai communities of Kenya. Africa Hope has five main sub ministries a church ministry, a ministry for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), education development, health development and food and water security.
YouthHOPE is a ministry NMSI created specifically to reach out to and holistically minister to youth around the world. YouthHOPE is committed to transforming the lives of global youth by equipping the church to meet their holistic needs. Among many things, the ministry helps train and educate willing community volunteers to be youth leaders in their communities. In an effort to improve the youth’s lives, YouthHOPE also helps improve the community they are ministering to by education, creating jobs, training people to own their own businesses, alternative energy, clean water, and agricultural training. YouthHOPE also creates awareness on global youth issues in churches and small groups in the United States with their Isaiah 61 conferences.
Impacto Latino is the newest ministry of New Mission Systems International founded January 1, 2010. The main goal of this ministry is to plant churches in Latin America. They do this by evangelizing, discipleship, pastoral care, leadership training, and administering to both spiritual and physical needs of community and churches in the community.
Short Term Ministries
NMSI has several short term mission projects to compliment their long term ministries such as Africa Hope, YouthHOPE, and Impacto Latino. These projects are created for partner churches and individuals willing to go short term, with trips lasting for 1–2 weeks.
NMSI also has an extensive and well established summer internship programs for college age youth called Venture. College youth go out in teams to NMSI ministries for two summer months to experience cross-cultural missions first hand and to learn, serve and grow.
Funds
NMSI has a budget of about seven million dollars a year mainly based on donations. Approximately seventy seven percent of these funds go towards NMSI missions projects around the world. About seventeen percent go towards administrative expenses, and five percent of the earning go towards fundraising expenses.
Work Place
New Mission Systems International was voted one of the Best Christian Work Places for 2010. Missionaries have to undergo a ten week training program called COAT (Community Orientation, Assessment and Training) before going to do mission work out of the country. COAT is a ten week program that includes intense seminars, mentoring, and workshops to help them be more equipped to fundraise and for doing mission work in the field. This training is undergone at NMSI’s home base in Fort Myers, Florida at the Center for Global Outreach or CGO for short. All workers including missionaries, office staff, maintenance workers and even the president of the organization have to raise their own support to work there. One hundred and ninety eight missionaries are currently employed with New Mission Systems International, and are in various stages of training, fundraising, and deployment to countries. NMSI is prospected to have four hundred more missionaries deployed in the next ten years.
Chief Executive Officers
The first Chief Executive Officer was Ralph Brune from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety eight. Brune passed on the Chief Executive job to Phil Hudson who held the job from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and eight. In 2009 this position was held by Jonathan Whitney on an interim basis, and then by Tim Dammon. Since 2010 Laura Clancy serves as NMSI President and CEO, who also chaired NMSI Board for a few years prior to stepping into the CEO/President role.