Our Story
Missions is not a department of IFGF — it's the heartbeat of it.
IFGF Global Missions was founded at the IFGF Conference in August 2021 to carry that calling for the whole movement. As a sodality — a sending arm of the Church — we exist to keep every IFGF church missional and at the cutting edge of the Great Commission. Our mandate is threefold:
Work with every region to reach the unreached people groups.
Plant churches in places where no church yet exists.
Provide education and raise awareness of critical mission needs — so every local IFGF church stays on mission.
Every believer, and every local church, is called to reach across geographic and cultural boundaries with the whole Gospel of Christ, and to help plant strong churches where the Gospel has never been preached.
Leadership
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Ps. Danielf Hanafi
DIRECTOR
Ps. Daniel Hanafi directs IFGF Global Missions and is the founding Senior Pastor of IFGF Los Angeles, which he planted in 1995 and grew into a multi-campus church. As a member of the IFGF Global Apostolic Team, he leads the movement's global missions and church-planting work, and he serves as co-founder and Vice Chairman of WorldHarvest USA. Ever since a dramatic conversion in 1981, winning souls for Jesus has been his driving passion — a calling that has taken him to preach, hold crusades, and plant churches in nations from Uganda to Pakistan. -
Ps. Budi Hidajat
MISSION BOARD
Senior Pastor of IFGF Semarang and serves as Vice President of IFGF Region 3, overseeing Central Java, West Java, Vietnam, and Sabah & Sarawak (Malaysia). His heart is to cultivate a healthy local church for every generation, to build strong families, and to equip God's people to live out their faith in the marketplace. -
Ps. Herman Ong
MISSION BOARD
Ps. Herman Ong serves on the pastoral team of IFGF Austin, a vibrant multi-ethnic church whose congregations reach across Austin, San Antonio, and St. Louis. He shares IFGF Austin's vision to be a church where all people find faith irresistible, engaging, and impactful. -
Ps. Evan Tjandra
MISSION BOARD
Ps. Evan Tjandra is a pastor with IFGF Jakarta and has served the movement in equipping and coordinating roles across Region Indonesia, including leadership of IFGF's Super Sunday ministry. He helps strengthen the systems and communication that keep IFGF's local churches connected and effective. -
Ps. Sugi Hendric
MISSION BOARD
Ps. Sugi Hendric (Rev. Sugiarto Hendric) is the founding Senior Pastor of IFGF Pinole. What began as a home fellowship he started in 1990 grew into a satellite church in 1993 and became a full local church in 2006. His passion is to raise up next-generation leaders in the Bay Area and to carry the Gospel to the nations — including Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, where he has helped train pastors and lead evangelistic crusades.
The Mission So Far
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August 2021
The mission begins
IFGF Global Missions is founded at the IFGF Conference — with one mandate: to reach the unreached, plant churches where none exist, and keep every church on mission.
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[YEAR]
First teams in the field
[Where you first sent teams / the first field you entered.]
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[YEAR]
Churches take root
[The first church your missions arm helped plant, or planters you began supporting.]
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[YEAR]
Leaders raised up
[A training milestone — IFGF College reach, pastors equipped, or care for the persecuted.]
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Today
[X planters across Y nations] — and counting
The mission is real, and it isn't finished. There's a place for you in what comes next.
Take your place in the Mission.
The work is real, and it isn't finished. Send those who go, or go yourself — and if you're still exploring, start with what drives us.