Fellowship International Mission (FIM)

Name

Fellowship International Mission (FIM)

Legal name

Fellowship International Mission

Website

https://fim.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1949

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Missionary Sending and Support Services

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Faith-Based & Mission Service Programs (EDAIAGAI), Missionary Training Colleges & Schools (EDAHAKAF), Faith-Based Humanitarian Aid & Relief Ministries (BPAGAJAF)

Keywords

• Missionary placement services
• Missionary member care
• Cross-cultural ministry training
• Church missions partnership
• Evangelical mission sending

Headquarters

HQ city

Allentown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donor Contributions and Missionary Support: FIM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that funds its operations and missionary support through voluntary donations from churches, individuals, and ministry partners. Missionaries raise their own financial support from donors and churches.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FIM recruits, trains, sends, and supports evangelical Christian missionaries serving in career (2+ years), mid-term (6 months to 2 years), and intern (up to 6 months) capacities across countries in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The organization provides a four-step preparation and onboarding process, ongoing member care from its Home Office, financial accountability for support-raising missionaries, and partnership with Key Accountability Partner churches.

Product overview

Fellowship International Mission (FIM) operates as a missionary agency offering a unified missionary placement and support service. The core offering consists of full-time career missionary placement (2+ years) and internship programs (2 weeks to 2 years) across multiple countries. Supporting services include missionary preparation and training through a four-step onboarding process (introductions, relationship building, candidate orientation, support discovery), ongoing member care services, and discipleship resources. The organization does not function as a modular software platform but rather provides integrated missionary services where preparation, placement, care, and spiritual development work together as a cohesive missionary support ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Full-Time Career Missionary Placement Placement service for full-time career missionaries committing 2+ years to ministry in countries including Argentina, Cambodia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Togo, and Uganda. Ministry types include camp, chaplaincy, children's ministry, church development, church planting, deaf ministry, discipleship, education, ESL, evangelism, medical, music, refugee, theological education, women's, and youth ministry. Intended for individuals sensing a calling to long-term cross-cultural missionary service.
• Missionary Internship Program Short-to-mid-term internship program lasting 2 weeks to 2 years, enabling individuals to gain practical cross-cultural ministry experience serving under seasoned FIM missionaries. Intended for individuals exploring missions or seeking practical ministry experience before committing to career service.
• Missionary Preparation and Training Four-step onboarding program comprising introductions (pre-application, full application, references, transcripts), relationship and ministry building, Candidate Orientation, and Support Discovery training. Intended for missionary candidates progressing toward field deployment.
• Missionary Member Care Services Ongoing member care delivered by FIM's Home Office member-care team, including direct communication, field visits for encouragement and training, spiritual oversight, and reporting oversight (News from the Field). Intended for FIM missionaries and their families serving on the field.
• Follow the Master Discipleship Resources Discipleship books authored by Executive Director Dr. Paul Barreca, including 'Follow the Master: How Jesus Made Disciples' and 'Follow the Master: A Discipleship Course for Growing Christians.' Intended for missionaries, partner churches, and individual Christians seeking structured discipleship materials.

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IFCA InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFCA International is a fellowship of like-minded churches and organizations committed to biblical ministry formed in 1930. FIM was founded with support from IFCA pastors and maintains affiliation with this fellowship for like-minded church partnerships.
• Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIM is a member of ECFA, committed to the highest standards of financial integrity. This includes external annual audits, acceptable controls for managing contributions, financial disclosures, avoiding conflicts of interest, and adhering to fundraising standards.
• Missio NexuscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMissio Nexus is the largest Great Commission oriented evangelical expression in North America. FIM is a member, providing missionaries access to Missio Nexus resources, training, and research into mission trends.
• Standards of Excellence in Short-Term MissionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIM promotes short-term missionary ministry and joined SOE in October 2003 for objective scrutiny and continuous improvement of its short-term program.
• SEND International of CanadacoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThrough agreement with SEND International of Canada, Canadian citizens may join FIM as career missionaries. Canadian donations are processed through SEND's offices, and they assist with financial accountability and oversight.
• Calvary UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCalvary University provides a Christ-centered learning environment to equip students for life and service, potentially serving as a recruiting source for FIM missionaries.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Team Expansion: Evangelical sending agency that recruits and supports career missionaries with a comparable donor-supported model and emphasis on partnership with local churches. Overlaps with FIM in church planting, education, and humanitarian ministry types.
• ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism): Faith-based sending organization that mobilizes missionaries through church partnerships, emphasizing member care, training, and field accountability — a structurally similar operating model to FIM.
• Pioneers: Interdenominational missionary sending organization focused on unreached people groups with a comparable member-care and church-partnership model. Both agencies emphasize church planting and disciple-making among least-reached populations.
• Mission To The World (MTW): PCA-affiliated sending agency that mobilizes, trains, and supports career missionaries through church partnerships globally. Operates a similar donor-supported missionary-care model with structured pre-field and on-field support services.
• Christar: Evangelical sending agency focused on church planting among least-reached peoples in Asia and the Middle East. Shares FIM's donor-funded model, church-accountability structure, and emphasis on long-term member care.
• SEND International: Faith-based missionary sending agency with which FIM already has a channel partnership (SEND International of Canada). Both recruit, train, deploy, and care for career missionaries across multiple countries and emphasize evangelical alignment.
• Frontiers: Missionary sending society focused on least-reached people groups, particularly in Muslim-majority contexts. Comparable in candidate-recruitment, church-partnership, and member-care frameworks.

Broad incumbents

• SIM (Serving In Mission): One of the largest evangelical sending organizations globally, with substantially broader country coverage and infrastructure than FIM. Comparable on the core missionary-sending and church-partnership model, but operates at much greater scale.
• Wycliffe Bible Translators: Large faith-based organization that sends missionaries (primarily in translation and linguistics) with a donor-supported model and church-accountability structure. While more specialized, the mobilization and care infrastructure is structurally analogous to FIM's.

Others

• Missio Nexus: North American evangelical missions network of which FIM is a member. Provides shared training, research, and peer-networking infrastructure across hundreds of member agencies, making it an adjacent ecosystem peer rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fimworldwide

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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