Northeast Region
From the wooded mountains of Maine to the busy ports of Philadelphia, the Northeast is a tremendously varied and very strategic part of our country. Today in America, 78% of our population lives in a metropolitan area. Stretching from Boston to Washington, DC, the urban centers of the Northeast comprise the second most unchurched and unevangelized portion of our country. Add the vast stretches of New England and the Northern Mid-Atlantic states, where beautiful rolling hills and mountains belie the depth of spiritual poverty and real sense of hopelessness held by so many in this region. 80% of Americans are unchurched, and 80% of American churches have stopped growing. The United States of America has become a society that, 50 years ago, every church would have felt compelled to missionize.
We are looking for people who are willing to commit themselves to live and work in communities that have often been abandoned by the world and the church. These communities may be in the heart of one of the many urban centers of the Northeast, or in a decaying mining town in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Many Northeasterners hold a subtle sense of having grown out of one’s need for God. They believe God has His place in beautiful clapboard churches but should not seriously change or impact one’s life. On the other side, it is shocking to know the numbers of people growing up in our urban centers that have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is into such settings as these that we are looking to place people with a heart for diverse people groups and the commitment to enter into their lives with the Gospel of Christ lived out and proclaimed.
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