Faith mission is a term used most frequently among evangelical Christians to refer to a missionary organization with an approach to evangelism that encourages its missionaries to "trust in God to provide the necessary resources".^[1] These missionaries are said to "live by faith." Most faith missionaries are not financially supported by denominations.

Early advocates of faith missions included many Plymouth Brethren missionaries such as:

• Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission, who advocated "Moving men, by God, through prayer alone"^[2] and not soliciting funds at all.
• Anthony Norris Groves, referred to as the "father of faith missions".^[3]
• Louisa Daniell, who ran a Mission Hall in Aldershot, the first of others across the UK
• George Müller, who ran orphanages in the Bristol area of England.

Other early leaders included:

• Arthur Tappan Pierson
• Methodist Episcopal Church missionary bishop, William Taylor

Modern examples include:

• Jim Elliot, martyred missionary to the Huaorani people of Ecuador^[4]
• The missionaries of The Faith Mission and of the Two by Twos sect
• Robert Pierce, founder of World Vision

• The Brethren (Jim Roberts group)
• Echoes of Service
• Mission Africa
• OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission)
• WEC International

• Henry Grattan Guinness
• Indigenous church mission theory