Team Expansion
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Summary
Team Expansion has been helping missionaries multiply disciples and churches among the unreached for over 40 years.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Team Expansion
4112 Old Routt Rd
Louisville, KY 40299
Website: teamexpansion.org
Phone: (502)719-0007
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 311043937
CEO/President: Doug Lucas
Chairman:
Board size: 10
Founder:
Ruling year: 1982
Tax deductible: Yes
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Member of ECFA: No
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Purpose
Our vision is to see obedient disciples in every people and place.
Mission statement
At Team Expansion we multiply disciples and churches among the unreached.
Statement of faith
The basis for our belief is the sixty-six books of the Bible, which are uniquely God-inspired, without error, and the final authority on all matters of faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 4:12; 2 Peter 1:20, 21).
There is one true and living God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 45:5-7; 1 Corinthians 8:4), Who is perfect in all His attributes. God is one, but exists in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14) - each possessing all the attributes of deity and deserving of our worship and obedience. In the beginning God created the universe and everything in it out of nothing. By His sovereign power, He continues to sustain His creation. By His providence, He is operating throughout history to fulfill his plan of redemption.
Jesus Christ is equal with God (John 10:30; Philippians 2:5-8), but surrendered the privileges of deity and came to earth to pay the debt for the souls of people.
Jesus was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:23-25). He lived a sinless life, and so was qualified to pay for our sins by dying on the cross as our Substitute (John 10:15; Romans 3:24-25; 1 Peter 2:24). He physically rose from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father where He now mediates as our Advocate and High Priest (Matthew 28:6; Luke 24:38-39: Acts 2:30-31: Romans 4:25; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; 1 John 2:1).
Jesus will return to earth visibly to fulfill history and judge all mankind according to the eternal plan of God (John 5:22-23; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Corinthians 5:10). He will return in a majestic and triumphant second coming. We do not hold to any particular position on how the second coming will happen.
The Holy Spirit is a divine person, coequal with the Father and the Son in all the divine attributes (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 12:4-6; 2 Corinthians 13:14). He convicts the minds of sinners, awakens in them recognition of their need for a Savior and offers them new life in Christ. At the point of salvation, He permanently indwells every believer and equips him or her for personal growth and service to the church (John 16:7-9; Acts 2:38; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 2:22). The indwelling of the Spirit is a divine guarantee of a believer's salvation until the day of redemption (Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14).
The Holy Spirit endows Christians with spiritual gifts. These gifts are intended to strengthen the Church and glorify Christ (John 16:13-14; Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; 2 Corinthians 3:18). Most churches and individuals affiliated with Team Expansion do not participate in public expression of supernatural gifts. We recognize that some of our fellow believers have strong convictions about special giftedness. We acknowledge their freedom to practice private worship as God so leads them, but ask that they not be openly evangelistic about their convictions.
The central purpose of God's revelation in Scripture is to call all people into fellowship with Him. God originally created human beings to have fellowship with Him and to glorify Him (Isaiah 43:7; Colossians 1:16) but they defied God by sinfully choosing to go their own way. As a result, people suffered alienation from God and the corruption of human nature (Psalms 51:5; Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:1-4). The salvation of humankind, therefore, is completely a work of God's free grace, not the result of human works or goodness. This salvation is a gift, made available through faith in Jesus Christ and Him only (John 1:12; John 10:18-27; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Peter 1:18-19).
A Christian can be secure in his or her salvation. Jesus promises that "no one can snatch us out of his hand" (John 10:28). However, while Christ does not give up on us, we can give up on Christ. Salvation is by grace not works, but believers live in a manner worthy of Christ's calling on their lives. The same grace that saves will also sustain the believer.
All Christians are part of one united spiritual body, the church (Ephesians 4:4), the bride of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2), of which Christ is the head (Ephesians 1:22; Colossians 1:18). The Scripture directs believers to gather together to devote themselves to worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, the Lord's Supper, fellowship, service to the body, and outreach to the world (Acts 1:8; Acts 2:38-42; Ephesians 4:12).
Wherever God's people meet regularly, this is the local expression of the church (Acts 20:17; Galatians 1:2; Hebrews 10:25). Under the protection and oversight of elders (Acts 20:28), its members are to work together in love and unity, intent on the ultimate purpose of glorifying Christ and making disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20; Ephesians 3:21).
In Matthew 28:19, Jesus instructed his disciples to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Furthermore, in Acts 2:38, Peter told the crowd, " Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." This gift of the Holy Spirit ensures that the Christian has the spiritual power to live for Christ. (See section "The Holy Sprit" above.) In Acts 2:38-41, Acts 8:35-39, and Acts 16:31-33, baptism occurred soon after confession of faith. Paul taught in Romans 6:3-4 that "all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death" and that "We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." As in the case of other Bible doctrines, we base our practice and teachings on these and other clear teachings from God's word.
The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to remember Christ's death until He comes, and should always be preceded by solemn self-examination (1 Corinthians 11:28-32). Even though the loaf and cup are only representative of the flesh and blood of Christ, the Lord's Supper is nevertheless an actual communion with the risen Christ, who is present in a spiritual way, in fellowship with His people (1 Corinthians 10:16). In the example of the early church, we offer the Lord's Supper weekly.
Death seals the eternal destiny of each person (Hebrews 9:27). For all humankind, there will be a resurrection of the body into the spiritual world and a judgment that will determine the fate of each individual. The saved will be raised to eternal life and will be rewarded for works done in this life (John 6:39; Romans 8:10-11, 19-23; 2 Corinthians 4:14), and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Daniel 12:2; John 5:29).
Because God has ordained the marital relationship as being between one (1) genetic man and one (1) genetic woman (Matthew 19:4-5), a marriage between persons of the same sex is contrary to the religious beliefs and faiths of Team Expansion, as based in Scripture (1 Corinthians 6:9). Therefore, no minister of the Team Expansion staff will marry a same sex couple, and Team Expansion shall not provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges related to the solemnization of a marriage between persons of the same sex, the celebration of such a marriage, or the promotion of such a marriage.
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History
The idea for Team Expansion was born in 1978, during a small prayer meeting at a Bible college in Eastern Kentucky. There were eight guys in a crowded dorm room and all of them signed their names on a world map. Our president, Doug Lucas, happened to sign beside the country of Uruguay. Four years later, Team Expansion fielded its first team, to Uruguay, by God's grace.
In 1982, five missionaries left for Montevideo, Uruguay, to start the very first Team Expansion work. In 1983, Team Expansion launched International Services, the people who would recruit, train, coach, and sustain the cross-cultural disciple makers around the world.
For the next 40 years, Team Expansion continued to send out teams to unreached parts of the world. As we learned more about disciple-making movements and multiplication, Team Expansion evaluated and shifted strategies and tools. But our goal was always the same: to take the Gospel to people who had never heard it before.
To date, Team Expansion has sent more than 1000 workers to 70+ fields, including many creative-access locations. Several nations that were once receiving missionaries are now sending out their own Team Expansion workers into the world.
Team Expansion couldn't exist without the stories of local churches who have partnered with us to encourage and sustain the work. Alongside the local church, our workers serve in businesses, in medicine, in schools, and in churches. Through God's power, they're shining the Light of Christ in some of the darkest places in the world.
In 2018, Team Expansion celebrated it's 40th anniversary. To commemorate this achievement, we created an overview of our history that can be viewed here.