Native Missionary Movement
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Native Missionary Movement (NMM) is an Evangelical Christian missionary movement located in India. The official website of NMM says the vision and aim of NMM is "to reach the most unreached millions in India with the love of Jesus Christ through training, sending, equipping, and supporting church-planting."
[edit] History
NMM was founded by Dr. Thomas Mathews, a native of Travencore, Kerala in south India, and his wife Mary, in 1963. Dr Thomas Mathews died in New Delhi on 24 November 2005.
[edit] Mission
NMM'S philosophy is to "bring the good news of Jesus to the most unreached people groups in India", especially northern India.
The organization subscribes to a conservative interpretation of Christianity.
Native Missionary Movement is viewed as being against foreign missionaries evangelizing India (due to assumption by Hindus that Christianity is a foreign religion), rather believing that native missionaries should be trained to minister to their particular ethnic group. NMM's particular focus is people groups that have not been exposed to Christianity; when such groups are identified, NMM seeks to establish a relationship with them. As their name suggests, NMM trains missionaries to work among their own ethnic groups.
NMM also runs many community development and disaster relief projects such as schools, orphanages, medical clinics, water wells and tanks, and water purification.
NMM is a non-profit organization and receives most of its funding from individual donations from outside India.
NMM is a registered member of the India Mission Association, which is a national body of Christian mission organizations.
