TEAM

What TEAM does

TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission) is a private, 501(c)(3) Christian missionary sending organization headquartered in Aurora, Illinois, with a Canadian regional office in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 1890 by Fredrik Franson originally as the China Alliance Mission, the organization has operated continuously for over 130 years and currently deploys 500+ global workers across 40+ countries, supporting 45 ministry areas and 188 ministry initiatives through a network of more than 2,000 partner churches, of which 365 are formal sending churches. Core service offerings are structured around three missionary deployment tiers — TEAMtrek short-term missions (6 weeks to 12 months, priced $2,100-$6,500), mid-term missions (1-2 years), and long-term missions (2+ years) — across 15+ ministry specializations including unreached people groups, education, medical, church planting, sports, creative arts, community development, refugee/diaspora, justice and mercy, marketplace, hospitality, youth outreach, theological education, creation care, and member care.

Revenue is generated primarily through charitable donations via the Global Outreach Fund, designated global worker support, and special project giving, with a marginal revenue stream from TEAMtrek program fees. Donor transactions are processed through Classy (donor management platform), with integrations to Double the Donation (employer matching) and EnGiven (cryptocurrency donations), and content distributed via Simplebooklet newsletters. Long-term and mid-term missionary service is funded through donor-supported support raising rather than direct fees. The organization's go-to-market combines community-led recruitment via church partnerships and event-driven mobilization through missions conferences and personalized one-on-one coaching conversations.

TEAM is governed by an independent Board of Directors, holds US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status (EIN 36-2169146), maintains PCI DSS Level 1 payment processing compliance, and is led by International Director Justin Burkholder (appointed July 2024) following Dave Hall (2019-2024) and Dr. Scott Henson (2014-2019). The organization has no parent company, no subsidiaries, no external investment structure, and no disclosed AI/ML technology layer, operating instead as a human-capital-intensive deployment agency.

Name

TEAM

Legal name

TEAM, Inc.

Website

https://team.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1890

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission) is a 130+ year-old Christian nonprofit that recruits, trains, and deploys 500+ missionaries across 40+ countries through a network of 2,000+ partner churches, funded by charitable donations and short-term program fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Mission Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (8134)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based Missions & Evangelism Organizations (Domestic & International) (BPAGAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based & Mission Service Programs (EDAIAGAI), Youth Leadership, Civic Education & Service-Learning Nonprofits (BPAGADAI), Faith-Based Social Services & Community Outreach (Food Pantries, Shelters, Counseling) (BPAGAJAG), Faith-Based Healthcare Ministries (Hospitals, Clinics, Medical Missions) (BPAGAJAH)

Keywords

• Christian missions services
• Missionary sending agency
• Cross-cultural ministry programs
• Church planting support
• Short-term mission trips

Headquarters

HQ city

Knoxville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donations: TEAM generates revenue primarily through charitable donations from individuals, churches, and organizations who support global workers and ministry projects. Donors can give to the Global Outreach Fund, support specific global workers, or contribute to special ministry projects.
2. TEAMtrek Program Fees: Short-term missions program fees ranging from approximately $2,100 to $6,500 depending on location and duration, covering program costs for participants.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

TEAM is a Christian missionary-sending organization that recruits, trains, deploys, and supports cross-cultural missionaries through short-term (TEAMtrek, 6 weeks–12 months), mid-term (1–2 years), and long-term (2+ years) service programs in 40+ countries. It partners with 2,000+ churches and engages donors through charitable giving channels including the Global Outreach Fund, designated worker support, and special projects, while offering ministry specializations across church planting, medical, education, and community development.

Product overview

TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission) is a missionary sending organization offering a portfolio of cross-cultural missions programs and ministry specializations. The core offerings include TEAMtrek (short-term 6-week to 12-month missions), Mid-Term Missions (1-2 years), and Long-Term Missions (2+ years). Workers serve across 15+ ministry types including Unreached People Groups, Teaching, Medical, Church Planting, Sports, Creative Arts, Community Development, Refugee/Diaspora, Justice & Mercy, Marketplace, Hospitality, Youth Outreach, Theological Education, Creation Care, Member Care, and International Church ministries. The organization enables supporters to give through its Global Outreach Fund, designated global worker support, and special projects. Donor engagement is facilitated through integrations with Classy, Double the Donation, EnGiven (cryptocurrency), and Simplebooklet (newsletters).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TEAMtrek Short-term cross-cultural missions program that connects participants with established ministry teams worldwide for 6 weeks to 12 months. Provides mentoring for cross-cultural engagement and integrates participants into existing TEAM ministries. Designed for individuals who want a short-term missions experience with pricing ranging from $2,100 to $6,500 by location and duration.
• Mid-Term Missions (1-2 years) Mid-term cross-cultural missions service of 1–2 years enabling missionaries to build deep relationships, learn cultures, and receive mentoring from seasoned missionaries while sharing faith. Donor-funded through candidate support raising.
• Long-Term Missions (2+ years) Extended missionary service of 2+ years where workers become community members and integrate long-term into established TEAM ministries. Donor-supported through the candidate's support raising.
• Unreached People Groups Ministries Mission work focused on reaching unreached people groups where less than 10 percent of global mission efforts are directed, following the modern missionary movement pattern.
• Teaching Ministries Educational missions using classroom settings as platforms to share the Gospel and enable students to escape poverty.
• Medical Ministries Medical mission opportunities ranging from hospital service in the Middle East to public healthcare in rural African villages, using medical backgrounds to share Christ's love.
• Church Planting and Evangelism Ministries Core ministry focused on establishing local churches, as every other ministry begins and ends with the local church making disciples.
• Sports Ministries Sports and recreation-based missions using outdoor activities (hiking, soccer, kayaking) and community connection to share the Gospel.
• Creative Arts Ministries Creative arts missions using art as storytelling to help people engage with faith in a safe space.
• Community Development Ministries Community development ministry seeking welfare of cities and villages, demonstrating tangible love and the importance of community in discipleship.
• Refugee and Diaspora Ministries Service among refugee and immigrant groups demonstrating Christ's love practically, with immigrants taking the Gospel back to countries closed to traditional missionaries.
• Justice and Mercy Ministries Justice ministry addressing holistic needs of people served and considering systemic roots of exploitation.
• Marketplace and Business as Missions Professional marketplace engagement opening ministry doors in countries where government or cultural perception prohibits traditional missionaries, enabling disciple-making through professional work.
• Hospitality Ministries Hospitality ministry building community through acts like neighborhood dinners in Europe or mobile cafes for disaster victims in Japan, opening doors for the Gospel and discipleship.
• Youth Outreach Ministries Working with teens and children worldwide through English programs, sports, creative arts, and education to win them for Christ and disciple them.
• Theological Education Ministries Training church leaders through seminaries, colleges, and Bible institutes from Central America to Southern Africa to Southeast Asia.
• Creation Care Ministries Restorative agriculture, water system development, and other creation care projects demonstrating faithfulness through environmental stewardship.
• Member Care Ministries Holistic support for missionary emotional, spiritual, psychological, and relational health, recognizing that health matters in missionary service.
• International Church Ministries Partnerships with international churches worldwide serving individuals living outside their passport countries.
• Seminary Professors Service pathway for trained seminary professors to equip local pastors and ministry leaders in theological and ministry training for church planting and disciple-making.
• Global Outreach Fund (GO Fund) Unrestricted donation fund enabling TEAM to send workers to serve alongside local believers in over 40 countries for disciple-making.
• Global Worker Support Donation channel supporting specific U.S.-based global workers through designated giving, allowing donors to search and support individual missionaries.
• Special Projects Designated donation channel for specific ministry projects with a searchable database of project needs that donors can support directly.
• Church Resources and Engagement Program Church engagement program providing eBooks, guides, and consultation services to help local churches integrate missions at every age and stage and identify potential missionaries.
• Camp and Children's Ministries Children's ministry work connecting with youth through English programs, sports and camp outreach, creative arts, education, and church ministries worldwide.

Quantifiable outcome

• 500+ workers currently serving in 40+ countries
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• OMF International: East Asia-focused evangelical missions agency with a comparable mix of church planting, theological education and unreached-people-group engagement. Overlaps with TEAM's China-origins heritage and significant East Asia field presence.
• Frontiers: Specialized in sending teams to unreached people groups in Muslim-majority and other restricted-access regions. Closely comparable to TEAM's Unreached People Groups, Refugee & Diaspora, and Marketplace & Business as Missions offerings.
• Youth With A Mission (YWAM): Global missionary movement with a strong short-term, training- and Discipleship Bible School-based entry model highly analogous to TEAMtrek. Operates across 100+ countries in church planting, mercy ministries and education — directly competing for younger evangelical missionaries and short-term participants.
• Mission to the World (MTW): PCA-aligned missionary sending organization that, like TEAM, deploys long-term workers alongside engaging sending churches. Highly comparable in member-care emphasis, church-engagement model, and mid-sized global footprint.
• SEND International: Evangelical interdenominational missions agency with a comparable cross-cultural church-planting, education and mercy-ministry portfolio. Competes with TEAM in the same church-sending ecosystem and similar donor demographic in the US.
• SIM (Serving in Mission): Global evangelical missions agency with thousands of workers across dozens of countries and a similarly diversified ministry portfolio (church planting, medical, education). BOARD membership cross-pollination (TEAM board member Donek Zemo serves at SIM) confirms direct comparability in scale, model and constituency.
• WEC International: Faith-based missionary-sending organization with global field presence across multiple continents. TEAM board member Martin Campbell currently serves as Deputy International Director of WEC, evidencing tight peer overlap in operations, governance and target missionary demographic.
• Pioneers: Evangelical agency focused on church-planting movements among unreached people groups, structurally similar to TEAM's Unreached People Groups ministry. Comparable short-term, mid-term and long-term pathways with similar donor and church-engagement model.
• Operation Mobilisation (OM): One of the largest evangelical missionary-sending movements globally, fielding thousands of workers. Overlaps directly with TEAM on church planting, short-term missions (similar in concept to TEAMtrek) and member care, targeting the same evangelical candidate pool.

Broad incumbents

• Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF): Established global ministry operating in the same ecosystem of evangelical missions support, donor base and church-partner networks. While not a direct sending competitor, MAF supports TEAM and similar agencies' field operations with aviation, logistics and member care, making it a structural adjacent peer for staffing/donor analysis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TheEvangelicalAllianceMission
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/teammissions
• Instagraminstagram.com/teammissions
• Xx.com/teammissions

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles30 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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