The AVM Research Team is a small collective of scholars from Western backgrounds engaged in the academic study of Vulnerable Mission. Our focus is on self‑critical reflection about Western mission methods, often through employing Vulnerable Mission principles (such as the use of indigenous languages and local resources). Some articles and books published by members can be found among the resources.

The AVM Research Team works in two broad areas. One is reflecting on the practice of Vulnerable Mission in different contexts, which we are often involved with ourselves. The other is exploring how Vulnerable Mission relates to missiological and practical topics, such as:

• movements
• intercultural theology
• de-coloniality
• development
• racism
• human rights
• artificial intelligence

A key reason for undertaking academic research – not just on and related to but, indeed, based on Vulnerable Mission – is the inadequacy we perceive in many studies and policies impacting the Global South that are essentially rooted in Western, secular perspectives of the world.

Interested in learning more about or joining the AVM Research Team? Please email us with a short introduction of yourself and your background.