Overview
Our Story
Global Service Network was launched in 2007 by four missionaries whose combined ministry experience totals over 70 years. The founders recognized a need to form an administrative structure as they developed a ministry to those living in restricted-access countries. They did not imagine the network would grow and expand globally, encompassing a wide range of mission endeavors. GSN is a 501c3 nonprofit organization and a member of ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability).
The vision of Global Service Network is rooted in Jesus’ command, “…The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” (Matthew 9:37-38) By providing the support and resources for men and women to be laborers in God’s harvest, GSN accomplishes its mission, Empowering Servants of Christ to take the Gospel to the World. The stories of lives impacted through the ministries of associates (missionaries) consistently fuel momentum for helping to fulfill the Great Commission.
Our Motivation
- Great Commission
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 - More Laborers
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.” Matthew 9:37-38 - Changed Lives
Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Serving Others
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45
Our Beliefs
- Scriptures
We believe the Bible is God’s infallible Word, written without errors, comprised of the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. As the God-breathed, inspired work of the Holy Spirit, we believe the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. - God
We believe in one true God who eternally exists in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each member of the Holy Trinity equally possesses all the attributes of Deity as well as characteristics of personality. - Jesus Christ
We believe Jesus Christ is God, the living Word, who was miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit and entered the world through the virgin birth. Hence, His nature is perfect deity and true humanity united in one person forever. We believe Jesus Christ lived a sinless life, voluntarily atoned for the sins of all mankind by dying on a cross, and rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, according to the Scriptures. Thus, He satisfied divine justice and accomplished salvation for all who trust in Him alone. We believe in our Lord’s bodily ascension into heaven where He sat down at the right hand of God as the only mediator between God and man who continually makes intercession for His own. He is head of the church, His Body, which is composed of all men and women, living and dead, who have joined to Him through saving faith. Jesus Christ will return physically to earth to consummate God’s eternal plan. - Man
We believe Adam and Eve were originally created in the image of God, disobeyed through sin, and as a result, became alienated from their Creator. The historic act of rebellion resulted in the fall, passing on to all mankind divine condemnation. We believe man’s nature is corrupt, totally unable to please God, and thus, in need of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit. - Salvation
We believe salvation is wholly a work of God’s grace freely given; it is not the work, in whole or in part, of human works, goodness or religious practice. For those who put their faith in Christ alone for salvation, God imputes His righteousness and transfers them into His spiritual kingdom. The privilege of every believer is to have assurance of salvation from the moment of trusting Christ as Lord and Savior. The believer’s assurance of his eternal destiny is not based on human merit but upon the Holy Spirit’s witnesses to the individual’s spirit about belonging to God and the truth of God’s written Word.We believe the Scripture teaches upon death the believer immediately enters the eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord, awaiting resurrection of his body to everlasting glory and blessing. In contrast, the unbeliever upon death immediately enters eternal, conscious separation from the Lord, awaiting resurrection of his body to everlasting judgment and condemnation. - Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit came into the world to reveal and glorify Jesus Christ and to apply His saving work to all those who trust Him. The Holy Spirit convicts sinners of their need for Christ, imparts new life, seals them until the day of redemption, and continually indwells believers. Every believer is called to live in the power of the Holy Spirit’s fullness by faith so as not to fulfill the lust of the flesh but to bear fruit to the glory of God. - Believer/Church
We believe God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship in order to participate in ordinances, receive edification through the Scriptures and draw strength from mutual encouragement. We adhere to the Lord’s command to all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and make disciples in every nation. When believers follow the Lord’s mandate to help fulfill the Great Commission, all worldly and personal ambitions must be in a position of subordination to a total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.”