D.M TEAMS

Train and send your students to reach the nations— right here at home.

What are Diaspora Mission Teams?

DM Teams are teams of 3-5 college-aged students who are trained and sent out to gateway cities in the U.S. and Canada where there are large concentrations of Unreached People Groups. These teams are trained for one week in Nashville before being deployed for 3-4 weeks in major urban areas to learn about and strategically engage diaspora people and communities that are least-reached. This is front-line mission work which is accomplished alongside our mission partners.

Logos of Diaspora Missions Collective, Send Relief, and NextWave arranged horizontally.

How does it work?

Training Week | Nashville, TN

DM Teams kick off with an intensive training week in Nashville, TN, where they receive hands-on preparation for engaging unreached diaspora communities. This time includes cross-cultural training, evangelism strategies, and practical tools for ministry. Led by experienced missionaries and church planters, the training equips teams to understand diaspora dynamics and effectively share the gospel in diverse urban settings.

Deployment | North American Diaspora City

After training, teams are sent to a major North American city with a high diaspora population for four weeks of on-the-ground ministry. They engage in outreach, community mapping, and relationship-building among unreached people groups. Working alongside local church planters and ethnic pastors, teams focus on connecting new believers to long-term discipleship opportunities, ensuring lasting impact.

Why It Matters

Global missions no longer starts overseas. The nations are here.

Cities like Houston, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Denver, and Atlanta are home to thousands of unreached people groups — men and women who may never hear the Gospel unless someone crosses the street, not the sea.

DM Teams are a hands-on, real-world introduction to frontier missions and urban church planting.

Who It’s For

  1. College students exploring a call to missions or church planting

  2. Students with a heart for cross-cultural ministry

  3. Schools and churches looking to mobilize young adults

  4. Institutions offering college credit for supervised missional fieldwork

Program Structure

  • Cross-cultural evangelism and worldview training

  • Mapping techniques and demographic study

  • Entry strategies, cultural awareness, and team formation

  • Led by Nextwave staff and local partners

Deployment Weeks

  • Serve in a city like Houston, Chicago, or Denver

  • Engage unreached diaspora communities

  • Work alongside Send Relief, church planters, and strategists

  • Focus on gospel conversations and long-term church connections

to the scattered.

to the diaspora.

Earn College Credit

DM Teams participants can earn transferable college credit through approved coursework and supervised field hours. We partner with select institutions to ensure students gain both academic and spiritual formation.

*For credit inquiries, speak to us abour eligible partners.

For Churches & Academic Partners

Want to mobilize students from your community, school, or campus?

We partner with:

  • Churches seeking to mobilize young adults into mission

  • Christian colleges looking to provide real field experience

  • Campus ministries interested in training the next generation

Let’s build a pathway from the classroom to the harvest field.