Our Vision for
Training

We see thousands of men and women of God from around the world trained for multiplication ministry through national and international schools and a live video classroom. We see the implementation of ministry training schools domestically and internationally as graduates of our schools begin new schools.

Our Vision for
Sending

We see one hundred church planters and one hundred missionaries trained and sent out to reach, disciple, and multiply themselves in the lives of others who will do the same.

Our Vision for
Credentialing

We see people of all nations come under our covering and are ordained into the gospel ministry. We will be flexible in who we ordain by recognizing character, gifting, and calling above a degree requirement.

Our Vision for
Mentoring

We see those who are associated with LFGM as a family of relationships not connected through hierarchy, but thorough the fellowship of Christ; who are not alone and have the people and support resources they need to accomplish their purpose.

The Million Soul Mandate

OUR MISSION IS THE TRAINING, SENDING, CREDENTIALING, AND MENTORING OF WORKERS FOR WORLD WIDE HARVEST TO REACH AND DISCIPLE ONE MILLION SOULS FOR CHRIST WORLDWIDE.

A Message from our President:

In 1999, after ten years of founding and pastoring Faith Chapel of Syracuse, New York, we were getting ready to move into our new building and I feared we would become “settlers” and just “do church” without a driving vision and purpose. As a result, I sought God for a vision for the next 25 years. After a time of prayer, fasting, and seeking God’s direction, He spoke to me with the most incomprehensible, unimaginable, and impossible vision; God told me to reach one million souls for Christ. After prayer and meditation, the vision developed into the following mission statement: My mission is to make and multiply disciples to reach one million souls for Christ worldwide.

Dr. Lee and Averell Simmons

For the next ten years, as I continued to pastor Faith Chapel, the mission became the driving force in my life and our churches’ life. Over that decade, our church made some amazing transitions:

• We began a school called Living Faith School of Ministry to train workers for worldwide harvest
• We began to plant churches in our area
• We began to send short and long term missionaries as well as we became an agency to send and provide oversight for our missionaries
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  1. Many doors opened up for me in international ministry and I ministered in over a dozen nations, including a church planting ministry in South Korea
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    Additionally I began to (and continue to) serve as an academic dean of a graduate school in Ukraine. During this time, I also earned a Doctor of Ministry degree through Regent University

Without knowing it, I was spending more and more time away from pastoring the local church and spending most of my time training, sending, and mentoring ministry workers, as well as in personal overseas ministry. I came to the realization that I could not be a good pastor of Faith Chapel and oversee all of the new ministries opportunities. Consequently, in January of 2009, I gave the leadership of Faith Chapel over to my co-pastor Jim Tuttle and birthed a new ministry, Living Faith Global Ministries, to oversee all of the work I had been doing and expand the work to help fulfill the vision God had given me ten years earlier.

My role has changed, but the mission has not. Now, the million soul vision is the mission of Living Faith Global Ministries, whose mission statement is: the training, sending, ordaining, and mentoring of workers for the harvest to reach and disciple one million souls for Christ worldwide.

Therefore, Living Faith Global Ministries is a new organization with a million soul mandate. Only God knows how He will accomplish His purpose. I only seek day by day to be in His will and I am constantly amazed at His new direction and purpose for my life.