GLOBAL

At Divergent Church and Divergent Global we are passionate about making Jesus' last command our first priority.

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In Genesis 12:2 - 3 Abraham was told...

 

‘I will make you into a great nation,
   and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
   and you will be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you,
   and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
   will be blessed through you.’

 

Abraham and the nation of Israel was a blessing to the world in so many regards, however, the primary fulfilment of this passage is found in Jesus. It is Jesus we declare and demonstrate.

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"Then Jesus came to them and said,

 

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:18 - 20
 

HIS LAST COMMAND MUST BE OUR FIRST PRIORITY

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At DIVERGENT CHURCH we are honoured to support people and projects in a number of areas in the world including the Middle East, Silkroad, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Japan, Pakistan, Indonesia and South East Asia.

We pray you will consider your part in partnering and reaching out the the least and the unreached.

 

​​A Church, a Movement, a Global Calling

Where we started, where we are going. Our journey started as a dream that was written like this (paraphrased)

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"Imagine a Christian community that refuses to exist for itself alone. Imagine a people shaped by worship, compelled by love for Christ, and willing to lay down comfort, security, and recognition for the sake of a hurting world. Imagine a local church whose greatest joy is not its own growth, but the continual expansion of God’s kingdom, through disciples made, churches planted, and the gospel carried where it has not yet been heard.

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That has always been our dream.

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Long before Divergent had a name, long before structures or strategies existed, God was quietly forming something in our hearts. As an eighteen-year-old, I would travel to Canberra and joke about planting a church, sometimes even pointing to specific locations. Only later did I realise that God often hides His purposes in holy desires long before we understand them. What once felt playful became prophetic.

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From the beginning, our desire was never simply to plant a church. Our prayer was to plant a seed, a seed that would be replanted again and again, across cities, cultures, and nations. A seed that would grow into dynamic, Spirit-led, gospel-centred communities, declaring and demonstrating the love of God to those far from Him.

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LifeCity Church, which would become Divergent Church was the first expression of that seed. But even then, it was never meant to stand alone."

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From "City Church. Global Reach" to "Neighbours to Nations"

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From day one, our language carried a future orientation. Embedded in our DNA was a longing to look beyond ourselves. We imagined a day when churches around the world might trace their spiritual heritage back to a community that simply wanted to reach beyond itself, to bless a world still without the Saviour.

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That dream has continually pulled us forward. It has shaped our priorities, our leadership, and our posture. It has consistently pushed us toward movement over monument, sending over settling, and faithfulness over familiarity.

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At the heart of this journey has always been a deep conviction: we want to be significant in the eyes of Christ, not merely successful in the eyes of people. In John 12 and Matthew 26, we encounter the woman who pours perfume over Jesus’ feet, offering what represented her security, her dignity, her ‘glory.’ Jesus responds, “She has done a beautiful thing to me” (Matthew 26:10, NIV).

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That moment has shaped us profoundly. Our prayer has always been to be a church that pours out everything at the feet of Jesus, laying down our glory so that He alone is exalted.

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A Heart for the Unreached and Unengaged

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From the earliest days, our global imagination was was specific. It included a longing to send and partner with 100 mission teams as a wider community, teams embedded among the unreached and unengaged, where gospel access is limited or non-existent.

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This passion has continually drawn us to the edges: to the least reached, the overlooked, and the forgotten. It has led us to unpackage what God placed in our DNA from the beginning, a love for the nations, a commitment to church planting, and a belief that the gospel must go where it is not yet established.

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As this conviction matured, it became clear that structural and identity shifts were necessary. This journey culminated in the formation of Divergent Church as our local expression and Divergent Global as our movement-focused expression, created to serve, align, and communicate a vision that had always been global in scope.

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Accountability, Covering, and Partnership

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Divergent Church and Divergent Global do not pursue this calling in isolation.

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From the outset, we have been committed to walking in relational accountability, theological faithfulness, and organisational integrity.

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Our primary accountability and spiritual covering is found within the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) and Australian Christian Churches International (ACCI).

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We are grateful to be shaped, supported, and safeguarded within this wider family—locally, nationally, and globally.

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This posture is deeply biblical. The apostle Paul’s ministry flowed from the local church in Antioch, yet he consistently lived in relationship with wider apostolic leadership, including the church in Jerusalem (Acts 13; Acts 15). Mission was never detached from community, and calling was never divorced from accountability. Even the most pioneering expressions of the early Church were strengthened—not weakened—by shared discernment, mutual submission, and doctrinal unity.

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In the same spirit, our partnership with DOXA, stewarded by the World Assemblies of God Fellowship (WAGF), sits naturally within this framework of accountability and trust. Through ACC and ACCI, we joyfully align with the global Assemblies of God movement, allowing our heart for the unreached and unengaged to be expressed in ways that are collaborative, accountable, and globally connected.

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Why Divergent Global Exists

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Jesus is worthy of worship from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation (Rev. 7:9–10, NIV).

 

Yet the global reality remains confronting:

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• 8.2 billion people live on earth today

• 3.9 billion people (48%) do not have adequate gospel access

• 6,600+ people groups remain unreached

• 2,085 people groups are still unengaged—with no known believers or church planting teams

• Only 3% of global workers serve among the unreached

 

Divergent Global exists because the gospel access gap is not merely a statistic, it is a spiritual emergency. The mission of God has always been centred on the nations (ethnē), and the Church must be intentionally aligned if that mission is to be fulfilled in our generation.

 

Divergent Global and Doxa

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DOXA, meaning glory, is the missional engine within Divergent Global that focuses on. Jesus’ glory to every nation, tribe and tongue.

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• Prioritising unengaged and frontier people groups

• Aligning deployment around gospel access, not convenience

• Strengthening long-term church planting movements

• Working in deep partnership with national leaders and churches.

 

Theological and Missional Foundation

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Divergent Global stands firmly on the biblical conviction that:

• God’s redemptive plan has always been global (Gen. 12:3; Ps. 2:8)

• The Spirit is already at work among unreached peoples

• The Great Commission is both an individual calling and a collective responsibility

 

Mission is not everything, but it is the Church’s organising centre. As Bishop Stephen Neill warned, “If everything is mission, nothing is mission.”

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Divergent Global therefore calls the Church to focused obedience, directing prayer, people, and resources toward the places of least gospel access.

 

What We Mean by Gospel Access

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Divergent Global with the wider ACC adopts the DOXA framework for clarity and alignment:

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• Unreached: ≤2 believers per 100 people

• Under-engaged: ≤1 believer per 100 people

• Frontier: ≤1 believer per 1,000 people

• Unengaged: No known believers and no active church planting teams

 

True gospel access requires more than occasional evangelism. It requires:

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1. Long-term, resident, apostolic presence

2. Ministry in heart language and culture

3. Commitment to disciple-making that multiplies

4. Indigenous churches capable of reproducing

 

How Divergent Global Works

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Divergent Global brings alignment across four key streams:

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1. Prayer and Spiritual Covering

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Joining the wider ACCI, and WAGF family globally praying around the clock for specific people groups and regions.

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2. Mobilisation and Training

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Raising, equipping, and forming intercultural workers with deep missiological, cultural, and linguistic competence.

This starts in their home nations in every day mission posture and extends to training, community and cultural development and engagement in unreached contexts.

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3. Strategic Partnerships

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Where we are unable to be as an in person community, our goal is to connect the called to called communities.

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4. Partnership and Alignment

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We strategically connect with local movements when they exist and in the creation of new local movements where sufficient communities of leaders and churches do not exist.

 

Our Shared Commitments

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Through Divergent Global and DOXA, we commit:

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• To reliance on the Holy Spirit and Holy Scripture

• To humility, collaboration, and non-competition

• To serving—not replacing—existing missions agencies

• To prioritising the unengaged by 2033

• To stewarding intercultural workers with excellence and care

• To planting churches that plant churches

 

Above all, we commit that Jesus alone will receive the glory.

 

The 2033 Vision

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By 2033, Divergent Global, as a connected part of the DOXA vision envisions:

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• No remaining unengaged people groups on earth

• Every unreached people group actively and fruitfully engaged

• Thousands of new cross-cultural missionaries mobilised

• National churches globally sending their own sons and daughters

• Intercultural workers and leaders who are deeply trained, culturally fluent, and disciple-makers

 

This is not the end of the work, but the beginning of a new chapter of faithful obedience.

 

A Call to the Global Church

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Divergent Global exists in community and partnership together and with wider communities such as ACCI and Doxa because because the task is too great for any one movement, nation, or organization.

 

Together we can extend gospel access to every people.

We can disciple the nations
We can see churches multiply among the unreached.
We can align globally for maximum faithfulness

“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” (Rev. 7:10, NIV)

To Jesus alone be glory—from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.