Mission Strategy

Vision for a New Strategy - Work With Strategic Romanian Churches
Hereafter, RAM in America, partnering with RAM of Romania, will work with, in and through “Strategic Churches” to fulfill its vision.

“A Strategic Church” is defined as a strong, growing, missionary congregation in the unevangelized areas of Romania, with strong, godly leadership, that can offer opportunities for RAM to fulfill its vision and provide supervision and accountability in a mutually agreed upon mission or ministry. In working through the “Strategic Churches,” RAM in America would seek to accomplish several things.

First, RAM is seeking to support these strategic congregations and help empower them to become strong regional-type churches, with an ever-increasing positive witness among the people as well as those in power, often communists, who seek to portray evangelical churches as cultic, dangerous, bent on taking what they can get from people.

In order to strengthen the witness of the “Strategic Churches,” RAM will seek to help each one of these, following the Braila model, to establish a medical clinic for the poor as a strategic part of its ministry. This would enhance the witness of the church in the community, establishing its desire to give to those in need not take what the people have.
A medical clinic in conjunction with a strong congregation has also proved to be the most effective means of opening the door into the church. The rapidly growing Holy Trinity Church in Braila has discovered that 70% of their new members are converts who came to know Jesus as Savior and Lord through the ministry of the medical clinic.
Also, RAM will seek to help the Strategic Churches, in time, develop training centers, perhaps satellite centers, with a working relationship with Holy Trinity’s Braila Bible College. Trained leadership is an absolute necessity to develop strong churches that can reach their country for Christ.

Second, RAM is working through the “Strategic Churches” in planting new churches, and sponsoring missionary pastors on the field. As these strong “mother” churches are led by the Lord to plant other congregations in fertile areas around them, RAM in America will be invited to partner with them in providing financial and other necessary support (such as church buildings) that our Romanian brothers and sisters cannot provide.