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Evangelistic and discipleship ministries (such as The Navigators, Cru (Christian organization), and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) Music and print publishers, radio and television stations, film studios, online ministries; Study centers and institutes, schools, colleges and universities; Political and social activist groups
Parachurch organizations perform a number of roles, including: [3] evangelistic crusade associations (patterned after the Billy Graham Association); evangelistic and discipleship ministries (such as ThereforeGo Ministries, [4] Youth With a Mission (), InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Scripture Union, Cru, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Christian Challenge, and The Navigators)
Ministries often provide fellowship activities outside of the church service that encourage the involvement of non-church going friends and relatives. Age-specific ministry does have certain disadvantages, mostly stemming from the separation of children from the primary church functions.
Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh-Day) International Missionary Society of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement; Sabbath Rest Advent Church; SDARM General Conference (Adventist Reform Movement) United Sabbath-Day Adventist Church; United Seventh-Day Brethren
Clara Anne Williams (ne. Rendall) – wife of Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams; Church of Scotland missionary in the Eastern Himalayas; Asher Wright – missionary to Native American Seneca people; Gladstone Porteous – Australian missionary to China of Scottish descent; Donald Fraser – Free Church of Scotland missionary to Malawi
The Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church, is composed of 24 autonomous sui iuris particular churches: the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. It considers itself the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded, [64] and which Saint Peter initiated along with the missionary work of Saint Paul and others. As ...
The church-planting ministry is usually a different ministry from either the literature or radio ministries. The church-planting ministry usually requires its missionaries to be fluent in the target language, and trained in modern church-planting techniques. The missionary then leads the group to start a church.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a number of supporting, parachurch, independent, self-supporting and other such organizations that work adjunct or in association with the official church. One author estimated their number at over 800 and are mostly supportive of the church, although differing ministries may be critical of church actions.