Advancing Native Missions

What Advancing Native Missions does

Advancing Native Missions (ANM) is a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit founded in October 1992 by Benjamin (Bo) Barredo in Charlottesville, Virginia, and currently headquartered at 10460 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton, VA 22920. The organization's core function is to channel donor funds to indigenous Christian missionaries serving in their own communities and nearby unreached mission fields across 100+ countries, including many closed to Western missionaries. ANM reports 200+ ministry partners, native missionaries active among 1,100 previously unreached people groups, 61,000+ churches planted, and more than 2 million individuals reached with the Gospel since inception. Leadership transitioned in 2018 to President Oliver L. Asher, with Dale Nimmo serving as CEO and Susan Brandt as Board Chair.

ANM's product surface spans a recurring Sustainers Community (monthly giving), an ANM Gift Catalog (priced giving items: $3 chicks, $30 school supplies, $4 Storybook Bibles, clean-water wells, sewing machines, missionary support), planned giving instruments (charitable gift annuities, remainder trusts, IRA QCDs, donor-advised funds), and asset donations including stocks, real estate, and cryptocurrency. For U.S. churches, ANM offers turn-key mission trips, a Speaker Bureau, the Invincible Joy book and 6-week video course, and a Church Missions Resources Library. The 'To The Ends' documentary and ANM Advocates Team extend its church-engagement channel. Online giving runs through Classy.org with Okta SSO, and asset transfers process via TD Ameritrade. The organization holds ECFA membership, Charity Navigator certification, and Candid Platinum Transparency 2024, and discloses 80.79% of donations going to field impact, 13.50% to administration, and 5.71% to fundraising.

The business model is donation-funded with no equity or institutional capital. Go-to-market combines event-driven acquisition (church speaking engagements, Global Missions Nights, documentary screenings, mission trips), community-led advocacy (Sustainers, ANM Advocates Team), and direct church sales motion (Church Relations team and Regional Directors). Revenue is long-tail across individual donors and thousands of church partners, and no audited revenue figure is disclosed; the most recent anchor is more than $10 million annually by the late 2000s.

Name

Advancing Native Missions

Legal name

Advancing Native Missions

Website

https://advancingnativemissions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Advancing Native Missions is a 501(c)(3) Christian nonprofit founded in 1992 that channels donor funds to indigenous missionaries serving in 100+ countries, including many closed to Western missionaries, supporting 200+ ministry partners and 61,000+ churches planted.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Nonprofit Missions Support

NAICS

Religious Organizations (813110), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Charities & Grantmaking Intermediaries (BPAGAKAE), Faith-Based & Mission Service Programs (EDAIAGAI)

Keywords

• Native missionary support
• Donor fundraising programs
• Church mission partnerships
• Turn-key mission trips
• Planned giving services

Headquarters

HQ city

Afton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Donor Contributions: Individual Christians and families make one-time or recurring donations to support native missionaries. Donors can give to specific projects (wells, chicks, school supplies, sewing machines, missionaries) or to the general fund.
2. Donation Impact: ANM reports that 80.79% of donations go to field impact, 13.50% to administrative expenses, and 5.71% to fundraising expenses. Donations support church planting, children and family care, and community development through native missionaries.
3. Planned Giving: Donors can give through planned giving vehicles including donor advised funds, designated beneficiaries (life insurance, IRA, retirement funds), legacy giving through wills or living trusts, charitable gift annuities, remainder trusts, and IRA required minimum distributions.
4. Asset Donations: ANM accepts donations of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and other assets. Electronic transfers are processed through TD Ameritrade (DTC 0188, Account 421-062921).
5. Sustainers Community: Monthly giving program where supporters join as Sustainer members contributing regularly each month to support ongoing missionary work.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels12 records

Core offering

Advancing Native Missions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that channels donations from U.S. Christians and churches to indigenous (native) Christian missionaries serving in 100+ countries. It sells a Gift Catalog of practical giving items (wells, chicks, school supplies, sewing machines, Storybook Bibles), coordinates turn-key short-term church mission trips, provides church partnership programs and speaker services, and accepts one-time, recurring sustainer, planned giving, and asset (stock, real estate, crypto) donations.

Product overview

Advancing Native Missions operates as a nonprofit Christian missions organization that connects donors with native missionaries serving in 100+ countries. The core offering is the ANM Gift Catalog, which allows donors to purchase practical gifts (wells, chicks, school supplies, sewing machines, storybook Bibles) that support native missionaries. The organization also provides mission trip services for churches, church partnership programs, ANM Speaker Services for events, Prayer Resources (downloadable prayer guides), Children's Ministry Resources, the Invincible Joy book and video course, the To The Ends documentary, a Church Missions Resources Library, Planned Giving options, and the ANM Advocates Team volunteer program. These products and services work together to facilitate global missions engagement through financial giving, volunteer advocacy, prayer support, and church partnerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ANM Gift Catalog An online and printed catalog of practical giving items (clean water wells, baby chicks, school supplies, sewing machines, Storybook Bibles for China, missionary support, coffee shop in Tunisia) that donors can purchase to support native missionaries and communities in need worldwide.
• Turn-Key Mission Trips 7-14 day turn-key short-term mission trips to West Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America for U.S. church groups, with ANM arranging travel, accommodations, and on-the-ground activities. Best planned 12-18 months in advance.
• Church Partnerships Program Church-wide engagement program that connects U.S. churches with native missionaries for ongoing partnership, strategic giving projects, speakers, and resources to develop a global missions program without dedicated missions staff.
• ANM Speaker Services Booking service for ANM speakers including President Oliver Asher, VP of Staff Development Amber Parker, and international regional specialists, available in-person (USA travel) or virtually for churches, conferences, small groups, and Bible studies. Recommended to book at least 3 months in advance.
• Invincible Joy Book and 6-Week Video Course A book by ANM President Oliver L. Asher with an accompanying 6-week video course and discussion guide designed for church small groups, focusing on biblical wisdom and practical guidance for living with joy through difficult circumstances.
• To The Ends Documentary Film A documentary film produced by ANM in partnership with Mwendo (a media company founded by Mwita Chacha), telling the story of native missionary Chandra Tobing in Bali, Indonesia. Available for church screenings, theater screenings, and home viewing.
• Planned Giving and Asset Donation Program Charitable giving program offering Donor Advised Funds, designated beneficiaries (life insurance, IRA, retirement funds), legacy giving via wills or living trusts, charitable gift annuities, remainder trusts, IRA Required Minimum Distributions, and asset donations including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and Bitcoin/other cryptocurrencies (processed via TD Ameritrade DTC 0188, Account 421-062921).
• Sustainers Community (Monthly Giving) Monthly recurring giving program where supporters join as Sustainer members, contributing regularly each month to support ongoing native missionary work. Processed through the Classy.org donation platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80.79% of donations reach field impact, with 13.50% for administration and 5.71% for fundraising
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered founding partner, core and supporting partner.

• Yogyakarta Missionary Training Center, Indonesiafounding partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1992ANM's first native partner was Yogyakarta Missionary Training Center in Indonesia, led by Paulus Wibowo. This partnership marked the beginning of ANM's native missions model in 1992.
• Mwendo (Media Company)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerANM partnered with Mwendo, a media company founded by Mwita Chacha, to produce the documentary 'To The Ends.' Mwendo means 'to put in motion' in Swahili. The documentary follows native missionary partner Chandra Tobing in Bali, Indonesia, telling the story of native missions through a personal journey. Mwita's creative input helped shift the film from an organizational overview to a single, compelling personal story.
• Operation Barnabas International (OBI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJerry Harding directs the ministry of Operation Barnabas International (OBI) through partnership with ANM. OBI has conducted over 200 conferences for thousands of pastors and shepherds in many countries to encourage indigenous pastors. Jerry was introduced to ANM's indigenous missionary model in 2000 and returned from a trip to India in 2001 with a 'broken heart' for the unreached.
• Joshua Projectsupporting partnerTechnology or IntegrationJoshua Project, a Christian ministry focused on gathering and distributing information about ethnic groups with the least access to the Gospel, provides research data referenced by ANM. ANM's work aligns with Joshua Project's unreached people group definitions and statistics.
• MwendocoreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe 'To The Ends' documentary is available for church screenings, theater screenings, and home viewing through the film's website (totheends.film). ANM uses the film as a marketing and awareness tool to reach new church partners and donors.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ): Cru is one of the largest US evangelical missions organizations with a global footprint; it overlaps with ANM in donor demographics, church-engagement programs, and an emphasis on unreached people groups, though at much greater scale.
• Wycliffe Global Alliance: Wycliffe focuses on Bible translation among language communities and unreached groups — adjacent to ANM's work and competing for the same donor base, though via a different (translation) programmatic vehicle.
• Operation Mobilisation (OM): OM is a global evangelical missions movement operating in 100+ countries — directly comparable to ANM in geographic scope and target audience, though OM's model emphasizes mobilizing Western short-term workers rather than funding native missionaries.

Direct peers

• Pioneers: Pioneers mobilizes teams to disciple unreached people groups globally with a similar Great Commission focus; it overlaps with ANM in targeting the same 7,000+ unreached people groups, though Pioneers primarily sends Western missionaries rather than funding native ones.
• SEND International: SEND International plants churches among least-reached people groups through both expatriate and national missionaries, with a comparable evangelical church-based funding base and missional philosophy to ANM.
• Frontier Ventures: Frontier Ventures (formerly U.S. Center for World Mission / Caleb Project) focuses on frontier missions among unreached people groups — directly comparable to ANM in mission philosophy, donor base, and emphasis on movements rather than individual placements.
• Frontiers: Frontiers is a global fellowship focused on planting churches among Muslims and other least-reached peoples, directly overlapping with ANM's unreached-people-group emphasis and field-partner network in the 10/40 Window.
• Greater Europe Mission: GEM focuses on church planting in Europe through both expatriate and national workers, sharing ANM's church-planting emphasis and evangelical donor constituency, though concentrated on a different region.
• Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes Mission): Ethnos360 plants indigenous churches among unreached tribes globally, overlapping directly with ANM's native-missionary, unreached-people-group thesis and donor demographic.

Emerging players

• Joshua Project: Joshua Project is a research and data ministry providing unreached-people-group intelligence that ANM explicitly references and partners with; it operates as a complementary enabling organization rather than a direct fundraiser, but shares the same donor base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@NativeMissions
• Facebookfacebook.com/AdvancingNativeMissions
• Instagraminstagram.com/nativemissions
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/advancing-native-missions

Compliance5 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles36 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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