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Why International?

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We live in a Global community. The barriers to communication and travel have never been lower. Being an International Church is simply stepping into the fullness of what the Church should be and experiencing the richness of the Christian faith as it is lived around the world. In Heaven there is not a section for people from the U.S. and another section for people from Nigeria or India or Germany. Instead scripture gives us a glorious picture of heaven filled with people of every tongue, tribe and nation. This picture motivates this church.

We are part of a missionary movement to the United States, established by Anglicans from Africa and Asia, deeply troubled by the spiritual crisis in this land that sent missionaries to them for generations.

The geographic center of Christianity has shifted to the global South. Across Africa, 1,200 new churches spring up every month: Christianity is spreading faster than at any time or place in 2,000 years. This is at the same time that churches are closing in the United States – with fewer churches in existence each year.

Much of Africa now sees the United States as the mission field – with 130 million unchurched people in America – we are the mission field. We need to be missionaries to the world right outside our door.

At IAC we seek to step beyond our cultural shortsightedness: we have much to learn from the Church in the global South. We need to be shaped by the faith of those who have suffered for the Gospel. We need to be shaped by the faith of those who know that Christianity is not just another "tool" in our "toolbox" to help us have a happy and successful life chasing the American dream, but it is life itself.