About Missio…

Philosophy

We don’t believe that missional ministry is tied to a specific form of church. You can be into “mega church, house church, multi-site church, emerging, traditional, or cell model.” It doesn’t matter. They can all be ineffective and sterile, or they can be faithful and fruitful in engaging the world with a tangible presence of the Gospel.

The difference lies not in our programming, presentation, or how we choose to gather. The difference is how we “go” and the habits of those who go with us.

Being “missional” means being incarnational instead of attractional. We are not trying to attract non-believers, but instead engage them. If we are incarnational, then people will follow us and the Church will grow.

Background

Founders and co-leaders of Missio, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay are missional leaders and church planters who desire to see the birth of incarnational communities of mission worldwide. Their recent project, The Tangible Kingdom, hits bookshelves Spring of 2008 and provides an innovative model for creating thriving grass-roots faith communities.

Hugh Halter
National Director of Missio, Hugh serves as a specialist with Church Resource Ministries. Hugh is also the lead architect of Adullam, a congregational network of incarnational communities in Denver, Colorado.

Hugh’s passion is two-fold. He desires to create church where it doesn’t exist. And he seeks to help those in the church understand how to keep saints together in mission while deeply connecting spiritual sojourners into our journey with Christ.

Matt Smay
Co-Director of both Missio and Adullam, Matt specializes in helping existing congregations move toward mission.

Matt’s leadership experience includes eleven years of incarnational urban ministry, including church planting among at-risk youth, and in-depth mentoring and coaching of emerging leaders. Matt specializes in missional leadership, church planting, and moving existing congregations back into mission. Along with wife Maren and daughter Maegan, Matt is locally devoted to forming a movement of missional communities in the Denver area.

Affiliation

Missio is a ministry of Church Resource Ministries (CRM). We are committed to the empowerment and growth of Christian leaders regardless of denomination, para-church group, seminary, or local church affiliations.

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