Face to Face International

Summary

Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, Face to Face International specializes in building world missions commitment by offering a wide variety of "face to face" short-term mission opportunities throughout the year. Face to Face also assists local churches, missionaries, and mission organizations with their short-term needs.

Face to Face takes short-term ministry teams to countries throughout the world, working with in-country hosts (usually missionaries or national leaders) to ensure a positive and safe experience. These trips are usually one to three weeks in length, thus allowing short-termers to use their vacation, comp, and/or holiday time to assist in mission projects.

These ministry teams offer a variety of opportunities. Some ministry teams go as vision trips, for the purpose of expanding the vision for world missions by seeing what God is doing in a particular country or countries. Other teams go as work project trips, to focus on a particular work project such as a school, church, medical/dental clinic, hospital, nutrition center, camp, Bible college, etc. These groups may do construction, evangelism, Bible training or whatever is necessary to assist the missionaries and national leaders.

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Under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, Face to Face International specializes in building world missions commitment by offering a wide variety of "face to face" short-term mission opportunities throughout the year. Face to Face also assists local churches, missionaries, and mission organizations with their short-term needs.

Face to Face takes short-term ministry teams to countries throughout the world, working with in-country hosts (usually missionaries or national leaders) to ensure a positive and safe experience. These trips are usually one to three weeks in length, thus allowing short-termers to use their vacation, comp, and/or holiday time to assist in mission projects.

These ministry teams offer a variety of opportunities. Some ministry teams go as vision trips, for the purpose of expanding the vision for world missions by seeing what God is doing in a particular country or countries. Other teams go as work project trips, to focus on a particular work project such as a school, church, medical/dental clinic, hospital, nutrition center, camp, Bible college, etc. These groups may do construction, evangelism, Bible training or whatever is necessary to assist the missionaries and national leaders.

At Face to Face International, they assure you that they conduct this ministry according to the values which follow:

ACCOUNTABILITY: Standing before God and others with complete openness.

RESPECT: Leading the way in developing mutually respectful relationships.

INTEGRITY: Conducting ourselves with the highest degree of moral purity and honesty.

TRUSTWORTHINESS: Treating every donation as a sacred trust from the Lord.

EFFECTIVENESS: Staying lean administratively so that we can maximize short-term ministry.

ATTITUDE: Maintaining a positive, can-do attitude.

EXCELLENCE: Recruiting staff with tender hearts toward God and proven ministry skills.

FLEXIBILITY: Embracing flexibility while resisting rigidity.

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Program Accomplishments [ Back to top ]

Accomplishments for Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/2001


• Built several churches throughout the world, as well as provide health education to the poorest of the poor in remote villages worldwide.
• Alongside nationals, helped lead hundreds to know Christ as Savior.

Statement of Faith [ Back to top ]

Every team member of Face to Face International subscribes to the Statement of Faith which follows:

1. Bible. We believe that the Bible, in its entirety in the original writings, is the inspired, inerrant, infallible and authoritative Word of God.

2. God. We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3. Jesus Christ. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and atonement through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His imminent personal return in power and glory.

4. Salvation. We believe that, for the salvation of lost and sinful humanity, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ provides the only grounds for justification, the forgiveness of sins.

5. Holy Spirit. We believe in the regenerating ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose power the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

6. Church. We believe in the spiritual unity of the Church, which is the body of Christ, composed of all who are regenerated through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

7. Last Things. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the saved and lost, in divine judgments, rewards and punishments.

History [ Back to top ]

Face to Face International was founded out of love and concern for the baby-boomer and baby-buster generations, those born between 1945 and 1983. Unlike previous generations, "boomers" and "busters" crave "face to face," hands-on experiences on the mission field.

The vision to serve those interested in short-term mission trips was realized by three families. One of those families, the Orvises, first caught this vision in 1992. Dr. Don Orvis, who was serving as North American Director at Medical Ambassadors International in Modesto, California, at the time, and his wife Nancy co-led a medical team of 19 people to Guatemala that fall, and the results of that trip were phenomenal.

This vision grew and became a reality in 1995, when the burden of these three families came together in the establishment of Face to Face International. In April 1996, Dr. Orvis was called as the first president and CEO, and an office was officially opened in Mesa, Arizona.

Dr. Orvis, an ordained minister, speaks regularly in churches across the United States. Before coming to Face to Face International, Dr. Orvis served at Medical Ambassadors International for 5 years. Before that, he served on the tenured faculty and administration at Denver Seminary for 18 years.

When the three founding families established Face to Face International, their philosophy of "helping ministry teams come ‘face to face’ with missions" was three-fold. That philosophy is the same today, and is as follows:

Working in partnership with ...

1. local churches — helping local churches organize and send out ministry teams on mission trips; 2. missionaries — bringing ministry teams to the mission field to help local missionaries with the needs at hand; 3. mission organizations — working in cooperation with mission organizations to provide necessary services for getting their ministry teams to the mission field.

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MinistryWatch.com 5 Star Financial Efficiency Ratings [ Back to top ]

Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Foreign Missions Sector
Overall Efficiency Rating		76 of 348	13 of 54
Fund Acquisition Decision		76 of 348	13 of 54
Resource Allocation Decision		of 348	3 of 54
Asset Utilization Decision		of 348	3 of 54