White Fields specializes in providing collaborative start-up support to pastors planting local churches among their own people in other parts of the world.

Here’s what that means:

Collaborative: We support men who will work with the accountability, oversight, and encouragement provided by a nearby sending church, denomination, or missionary team. We do not support men who want to work independently.

Start-up support: White Fields is committed to developing strong self-supporting national churches. We do this by providing a full-time base salary (using the median range for that local community) for one year, decreasing that amount by 25% each year. After 4 or 5 years, the church is responsible to support their pastor’s full salary. We are currently working in 13 countries.

Pastors: In the countries where we work, we have local committees made up of North American missionaries, local pastors and Christian business men. These committees select the men who are trained and prepared to begin planting a church. They present an application to our main headquarters and our Director gives final approval for all new church planters.

Among their own people: The purpose of White Fields is to support national men in their own countries working among their own people. In this way, language and cultural barriers are non-existent, and the message of the Gospel can spread more quickly. Our focus is global; we do not support church planters in North America.

Our Vision: Our vision is that the White Fields approach will be widely recognized and embraced as a great way for North American Christians to personally participate in advancing the Great Commission.