The Project Equip approach to building the Kingdom
It is time for the Kingdom to advance! How can you engage in the Kingdom mission?
Understand the Kingdom Mission
Prepare for the Kingdom Mission
Do the Kingdom Mission
Reflect on the Kingdom Mission
Project Equip Goals
To provide an innovative, learner-centered educational program that recognizes and incorporates the knowledge, skills, and abilities students bring into this academic program
To provide diverse process-learning approaches, all resulting in outcomes of quality, excellence, and integrity
To provide an inquiry/action model of education that fosters research, discovery, critical thinking and collaborative skills, and that results in professional excellence
To produce apostolic, missional passionate graduates, who are scholarly practitioners and agents of positive cultural change
Our Core Values
Spirit-Led
Being led by the Spirit is at the heart of Christian life and ministry. One must hear God’s voice, see His Kingdom purpose, and join Him in His mission. Jesus taught His disciples, It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven… Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear (Matthew 13:10 NKJV). God never intended for His Kingdom work to be a mystery! Like Jesus, we ought to “speak what we know and testify what we have seen.”
Spirit-Equipped
Being Spirit-equipped means that the Holy Spirit is actively working in your life as you submit to and engage in God's will. Project Equip exists that every believer be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:17); to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:12 ESV).
Word-Centered
Project Equip is Word-centered; nothing else matters! Jesus answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’” (Matthew 4:4). Paul instructs, Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15).
Eternity Matters
Everyone’s eternity matters! If the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10), and God our Savior…desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4), so must we! Project Equip exists to equip the harvester to convert the wayward.
Apostolic Giftings
Paul instructs, Now there are different gifts…ministries, [and] results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all (1 Corinthians 12:4-7). Gifts are not titles or offices but practical, fundamental, foundational, and apostolic functions in the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love” (Ephesians 4:16 NLT).
Mission-Equipped
Missions is the purpose of the church: intentionally establishing the visible Body of Christ in every community; planting churches to save souls out of the fire – to take back territory, on purpose! Project Equip exists to guide and equip every church and its leadership to plant local churches wherever none exist. God has commissioned to us the word of reconciliation. The natural outcome of the Great Commission is planting new churches.
Our Leadership
General Director of North American Missions
Scott Sistrunk
Scott has planted churches in the Detroit Metro area since 1996 and became a Career Church Planter under the Metro Missionary program in 2005. He currently serves as the Director of North American Missions where he brings a lifetime of experience to lead us in reaching North America.
Contact: 636-229-7900
Director of Education and Short-Term Missions
Galen Thompson
Galen has over forty years of experience in ministry, church planting and teaching, and twenty-four years in business management, leadership training, and corporate strategic planning. He currently serves as the Director of Education and Short-Term Missions for North American Missions.
Contact: 636-229-7879
Project Equip IT Director
Dan Littles
Dan has extensive experience in music education and serves as Professor of Music and Music Program Director at Urshan College. He also consults in education methods, distance learning, and church music programs.