Doulos Missions Institute

Since 1999, Doulos Missions Institute (DMI) has been equipping church-planting pioneers for the work among the least-reached people groups of the southern Philippines. This region is home to some of the hardest-to-reach people groups in the world—people living without access to the good news and with hearts hardened against the gospel. 

These communities need churches planted in their midst, but due to high security risks, Westerners cannot effectively minister among most of these people groups. However, Filipinos can. DMI mobilizes, recruits, trains and equips Filipino believers to bring the gospel to their unreached neighbors. 

Since its founding, DMI has trained over 100 Filipinos in cross-cultural church planting, using an intensive three- to five-year training and internship program designed to meet the needs and challenges of ministry in the region. Today, dozens of DMI graduates are serving full time as church planters in some of the hardest-to-reach areas.

DMI has begun to develop the Robert and Muriel Ward School of Languages, named after a couple who dedicated their lives to translating the Bible into the languages of least-reached people groups in the Southern Philippines. This school will create training programs to help future DMI students quickly and effectively learn the languages of the people they’re seeking to reach. Two staff families are committing 20 hours a week to this effort. 

DMI is also seeking to accelerate the translation of the Bible into one local language as well as make needed updates to an existing translation in another language. It’s planning to recruit graduates from Filipino seminaries as translators for this project and equip them through additional training to translate Scripture and create Bible training materials in these languages. 

Participate in the Ministry of Doulos Missions Institute

By Supporting Financially:

• $60 a month provides vocational training for a DMI student.

• $75 a month covers the academic costs of Bible and missions training for one student.

• $250 a month covers the cost of an adjunct teacher.

• $500 a month covers the cost of an on-site staff family.

• $660 a month supports two future Bible translators as they attend DMI and another institution.

By Praying: 

By Sending and Going: 

If you feel led to serve the Filipino Church as a Bible professor, English teacher or a resident worker in a community deeply impacted by brokenness, or know someone who might be, contact Christar for more information.