FUSE Teams(?)

Randy Schmor Gateway Global

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Listed among my prayer requests (found in the PDF) is the mention of a certain type of Gateway mission team we call a FUSE Team. So, what is a FUSE Team?

For as long as I (and previously my family) have been involved with Gateway as staff, and even as volunteers, we’ve led short-term mission teams that consisted of folks, most often youth, from multiple churches brought together for our Gateway Team experience. For some time now, we’ve called these types of experiences FUSE Teams. FUSE Teams receive all the attention, training, and leadership that Gateway has come to be known for, but they are also uniquely initiated from the Gateway office rather than from an individual church or other ministry.

Training for Gateway FUSE Teams is typically done through a two- to three-day retreat just prior to the team’s departure overseas rather than over the course of four months when a team comes from a single church or geographical location. FUSE Teams can have members from across North America and beyond (we’ve had FUSE Team members come from as far and wide as South Korea and Singapore).

However, I’m focusing on these types of Gateway teams in this newsletter for another reason as well (as you can well see from the prayer requests). We are looking forward to announcing and beginning recruitment for two of these Gateway FUSE Teams in the next few months (both pending confirmation)!

Cameroon FUSE Team

Cameroon Youth – November 2024

Departing in either the summer of 2026 or 2027 for two to three weeks, this team would serve among a least-reached people group that is anticipating having their own youth gathering with believers from a variety of villages. This team would serve at this youth event in many helpful ways and, most importantly, would find opportunities to connect and develop relationships with these young people as well.

What is also special about this FUSE Team is that it serves to continue and extend what has been a 20-year or longer partnership that has existed between NAB youth and Cameroon youth that has seen many NAB youth participate in.

Philippines FUSE Team

Mayon Volcano – Bicol, Philippines

Also departing in the summer of 2026 or 2027 for two to three weeks, this team would tentatively serve at one of NAB’s long-time partner ministries, the Bicol Christian Center for Leadership, and possibly among other projects in its vicinity. The Philippines also represents what was formerly an NAB mission field that is potentially moving in that same direction again, and the possibility of this team’s presence could be a part of establishing that mission field presence once again.

Also, please note: Gateway is tentatively looking to announce the recruitment of both these potential FUSE Teams at The Gathering, an NAB youth mission/conference event taking place in July 2025 at Hope International University in Fullerton, California.

Please pray for the youth attending The Gathering and that they will hear and respond to these mission opportunities. Please pass along these two potential Gateway FUSE Team opportunities to a young person you may know and have them get in touch with me at rschmor@nabconf.org.

I hope you all had a blessed Easter (and Holy Week)!

For the Kingdom