What Launch Global does

Launch Global is a Dallas, Texas-based nonprofit Christian organization founded in 2005 that trains and mobilizes missionaries to serve among unreached people groups, defined by the organization as the 42.3% of the global population without access to the Gospel. Its core product is a nine-month residential "Goer Training Teams" program in which trainees live together in apartment communities, simulating overseas life while building competencies across seven areas: team building, conflict resolution, character development, church planting, ministry planning, agency selection, and partner team development. The organization reports that 73% of program completers remain in long-term overseas assignments, compared with a stated 47% industry average, and that over 500 global workers have been sent to the unreached since 2014.

The organization's distribution model is built on a three-sided ecosystem: it embeds mobilization teams directly into 22 partner local churches across 16 U.S. cities, delivers the residential training program to cohorts drawn from those churches, and then places graduates with a network of 17+ evangelical sending agencies (including Frontiers, Pioneers, Cru, Ethnos360, IMB, and YWAM). The embedded-in-church model was introduced in 2011 via a partnership with The Austin Stone Community Church and is now the central go-to-market motion. International expansion has added teams in Spain, Thailand, and five Latin American countries, with a 2020-vintage partnership through the Coalicion21 network targeting 21 Spanish-speaking countries by 2026.

Launch Global operates as a donation-funded ministry with no cost charged to partner churches; it offers multiple giving vehicles (Mobilization Impact Fund, staff support, participant support, Ambassador Initiative, Crisis Response Fund, stock donations) and is accredited by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) and affiliated with Mission Exchange. Revenue, donor cohort size, and audited financials are not publicly disclosed. Customer segments are individuals pursuing missionary service, local churches seeking mobilization infrastructure, and sending agencies seeking better-prepared candidates, with the church segment functioning simultaneously as customer, channel, and embedded operator.

Name

Launch Global

Legal name

Launch Global

Website

https://launchglobal.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Launch Global is a Dallas-based nonprofit that trains and mobilizes missionaries to unreached people groups via a nine-month residential program, embedded partnerships with 22 U.S. churches, and placement through 17+ evangelical sending agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Missionary Training & Mobilization Services

NAICS

All Other Schools and Instruction (61169), Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Faith-Based & Mission Service Programs (EDAIAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Gap Year + Study Abroad Hybrid Programs (EDAIAAAG), Pre-Departure Orientation, Re-Entry & Intercultural Training for Study Abroad (EDAIAAAH)

Keywords

• Missionary training programs
• Church mobilization services
• Unreached people outreach
• Sending agency placement
• Cross-cultural disciple making

Headquarters

HQ city

Dallas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Gifts: Launch Global operates as a nonprofit ministry funded primarily through charitable donations. Donation options include general gifts to the Mobilization Impact Fund, support for staff members, support for Goer Training Team participants, ambassador partnerships, and Mobilization Crisis Response Fund. The organization also accepts stock donations and physical check donations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Launch Global operates a 9-month immersive Goer Training Teams residential program that prepares individuals for cross-cultural missionary work, paired with a Church Mobilization program that embeds mission teams directly within partner congregations. After training, graduates are placed through a network of more than 17 vetted sending agencies for deployment to unreached people groups, with a Spanish-language track extending the same model to Spanish-speaking contexts.

Product overview

Launch Global is a training and mobilization organization offering a suite of interconnected programs focused on preparing Christians for global missionary work among unreached people groups. The core offerings include the Goer Training Teams (a nine-month immersive residential training program), Church Partnerships (embedded mobilization within local churches), and International Mobilization (expanding global reach through international teams). Additionally, the organization offers various donation programs including the Mobilization Impact Fund, Staff Member Support, Goer Training Team Participant Support, Ambassador Initiative, Crisis Response Fund, and Stock Donation options. These programs work together to identify, train, place, and support global workers throughout their missionary journey.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Goer Training Teams A 9-month immersive residential training program for aspiring missionaries, covering cross-cultural ministry preparation, language acquisition foundations, and field-readiness assessment. Graduates are placed through the organization's network of 17+ sending agencies for deployment to unreached people groups.
• Church Mobilization Program An embedded-church partnership program in which a Launch Global mobilization team works inside a partner church to identify, train, and send missionaries from within the congregation. Designed for the church to retain sending ownership of missionaries it produces.
• International Mobilization Track A track within the broader program focused on mobilization to international, unreached people groups, pairing Goer Training Teams formation with placement to sending agencies that deploy cross-culturally.
• Spanish Mobilization Track A Spanish-language variant of the Goer Training Teams and Church Mobilization model, extending the same missionary pipeline and church-embedded approach to Spanish-speaking congregations and missionary candidates.

Quantifiable outcome

• 73% of training completers stay in long-term overseas assignments (vs 47% industry average)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

26 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Coalicion21coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Network partnership since 2020 for mobilizing 21 Spanish-speaking countries to the 10/40 window. Vision is for a church from every Spanish-speaking nation to implement the pipeline of awakening, equipping, and sending laborers to unreached people groups by 2026.
• BeyondcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• ChristarcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• CrossworldcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• CrucoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• World VenturecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• PioneerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner. Joe G., Vice President of Mobilization for Pioneers, stated: 'Many people who have a heart for the unreached feel at a loss in terms of how to get there. We believe that Launch Global plays a strategic role in giving momentum and clarity to many on the path.'
• e3PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• East-WestcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• Ethnos360coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• FrontierscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner. Bob Blinco, President of Frontiers, stated: 'The leaders of Launch Global provide the best training in the world for Christians who want to make disciples among people of other cultures.'
• ReliantcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• Youth With A Mission (YWAM)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• GEMcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• International Mission Board (IMB)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSending agency partner for placement of Launch Global trained missionaries among unreached peoples.
• The Austin Stone Community ChurchcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFounding church partnership since 2011 that demonstrated the essential value of church partnership in sending more people to the unreached. Partnership has sent 31 missionaries in the past year alone.
• First Baptist Church, Opelika, ALcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorChurch partnership where Trace Hamiter, Minister to College Students, reports: 'Launch has powerfully impacted our entire ministry. We have seen people come to Christ.'
• Redeemer Church, Lubbock, TXcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorChurch partnership where Dusty Thompson, Lead Pastor, states: 'Launch Global's stateside preparation for Redeemer Goers has proven to be an essential piece in the training process.'
• The Well Church, Austin, TXcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorChurch partnership where Tory Mayo, Lead Pastor, reports: 'Launch Global has been a great help to our church in helping us to advance the ball forward in our mobilization process.'
• United World MissionminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMission network partner where Billy Dempsey, Mission Mobilizer, endorses Launch Communities as having 'all the right tools for helping people take a purposeful step forward in their missional journey.'
• Joshua ProjectminorGTM or Marketing PartnerProvides the Unreached People Group of the Day prayer guide used by Launch Global supporters for prayer mobilization.
• PrayercastminorGTM or Marketing PartnerVideo prayer resource provider used by Launch Global to pray for specific needs along with local believers from each country.
• 24-7 PrayerminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPrayer movement organization whose resources are recommended by Launch Global for coordinating 24/7 or week-long prayer events.
• ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability)minorOthersLaunch Global adheres to ECFA standards for financial accountability and transparency.
• Mission Exchange (MNEX)minorOthersMission network association for evangelical mission agencies and churches.
• Excellence in Giving (EIG)minorOthersOrganization promoting excellence in charitable giving that Launch Global is affiliated with.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• International Mission Board (IMB): IMB is a large Southern Baptist sending agency that is also a Launch Global placement partner and an incumbent training and sending organization focused heavily on unreached people groups — broadly comparable at scale.
• Youth With A Mission (YWAM): YWAM is a global sending and training organization that runs Discipleship Training Schools and places workers among unreached peoples — overlapping with Launch Global's training and mobilization thesis but operating at a far larger scale across many niches.
• The Navigators: The Navigators is a faith-based discipleship and missions organization with overlap to Launch Global through shared leadership alumni (Brian Zaas previously led Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching) and a similar disciple-making focus; it is a broader incumbent in the spiritual formation and global worker pipeline space.
• Cru: Cru is a large, established evangelical mission organization that is both a Launch Global placement partner and a broader incumbent operating across many segments including campus ministry, international work, and unreached people groups — comparable at scale and mission category though broader than Launch Global's specific focus.

Direct peers

• Ethnos360: Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes Mission) is a sending agency partner of Launch Global that trains and dispatches missionaries to unreached people groups — a closely aligned peer in both training model and target mission field.
• Christar: Christar is one of Launch Global's 17+ sending-agency partners focused on church planting among least-reached peoples; it recruits, trains, and deploys its own workers in addition to receiving Launch graduates, making it a closely comparable peer in the niche mobilization market.
• Pioneers: Pioneers is one of the 17+ sending-agency partners that receive Launch Global graduates for field placement among unreached peoples, and independently recruits, trains, and deploys church-sending missionaries — a directly comparable training and mobilization peer.
• Frontiers: Frontiers is a major sending agency that partners with Launch Global for placement of trained missionaries; it operates in the same unreached-people-group mobilization segment and shares the church-based sending pipeline Launch Global depends on, making it a directly comparable peer.

Emerging players

• Missions Mobilization Movement (Acts 29): Acts 29 and similar church planting networks increasingly emphasize church-based missions mobilization overlapping with Launch Global's embedded-church model; they represent emerging or parallel players driving the same theological shift toward local-church-led sending that Launch Global pioneered with Austin Stone.
• Mountain Gateway: Mountain Gateway and similar newer residential pre-field missionary training programs (e.g., CRM/Mission Training International) compete in the niche of immersive pre-field preparation — emerging players with partial overlap in target customer (aspiring missionaries) and curriculum (cross-cultural, team, character development).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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