As FountainGate has grown, missions has continued to grow in importance. We've developed deep passions for both short and long-term missions projects, planting churches, and creating partnerships to help existing churches learn how to thrive and grow.
Learn more about the nations, people and organizations we work with.
Partners
Because FGF is not linked to any denomination, we are able to assist churches from various backgrounds.
We partner with existing churches in the following ways:
1. We love to find and connect with other "like-minded" churches. These relationships often develop into "sister churches" or organizations. We are able to partner in projects, missions and outreach, but there is no formal government guiding the relationship.
2. Churches often come and ask for a more formal relationship with us. In these cases, we provide oversight to their ministries and get more involved in the government and structural development. We become a "mother church" to these partners by establishing a formal relationship.
3. We have had the privilege of being invited to help struggling churches get back on their feet again. These do not become formal relationships, but we, by invitation provide in-depth leadership and church life evaluations and help these churches develop plan to revitalize and grow.
We are currently partnering with several churches and organizations throughout Texas and the world, some of which are included on our links page.
Church Plants
Planting churches has become a core value of FountainGate Fellowship. We have established a training school (Kingdom Advance), which equips our members to think like church planters and prepares many to become church planters.
FGF has now planted two churches (Emmanuel Fellowship Church in Sweetwater, TX and River of Life Fellowship in McAllen, TX).
Mission Trips & Missionaries
Each year, FountainGate participates in multiple mission trips. These range in form and function from prayer, to evangelism through tent outreaches, to an Arts evangelism trip (our newest layout which debuted in the Czech Republic in June 2005). We are constantly expanding our definition of what a mission trip should look like and what results we should expect.
Currently, our trips focus mostly on several Central American and European countries; however, we are now beginning to send trips to Thailand and are considering other nations and continents as well.
FGF's long-term missionaries are typically former students and/or graduates of our School of Ministry who commit to work in either a foreign land or in a stateside location for 1-2 years. We have previously sent people to work with native church planters in the Czech Republic, and we currently have a couple serving as missionaries to Thailand.
For more information on any of these trips, contact the trip leader(s) or call or email the church offices.
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