Mobilization Report Volume 5 is now available
Benchmark your mobilization strategy
How do you know whether your missionary pipeline is healthy, your mobilization strategy is working and your organization is keeping pace with broader trends?
- 81
- Participating organizations
- 17,882
- New long-term interested candidates
- 1,503
- Long-term departures
- 835
- Mobilization staff reported
What’s inside Volume 5
Missio Nexus surveyed 81 member organizations — sending agencies, specialized ministries, service agencies and support organizations — to build a detailed picture of missionary mobilization across the North American missions sector. Volume 5 follows the full long-term candidate journey, from initial interest through application to field departure, and examines short-term mobilization across multiple service-duration categories.
Unlike broader ministry surveys, the report focuses specifically on missionary mobilization. That lets an organization compare its own pipeline, staffing investment and sending activity with data from comparable organizations, rather than evaluating its strategy on assumptions.
Who it’s for
- Mobilizers
- Executive leaders
- Recruiting teams
- Ministry strategists
- Mission agency boards
- Candidate pipeline performance and conversion
- Time spent at different stages of the pipeline
- Applicant age and demographic patterns
- Long-term missionary departures
- Short-term mobilization
- Mobilization staffing levels
- Recruitment effectiveness
- Organizational mobilization budgets
- How agencies are investing their resources
- Emerging trends affecting missionary sending
Built for mobilizers and agency leaders
Where are prospective missionaries progressing successfully, and where are they getting stuck?
How effectively are initial interest and short-term involvement translating into long-term missionary service?
How does the organization’s mobilization staffing compare with similar mission agencies?
Is the organization investing more or less in mobilization than comparable agencies?
Which approaches are helping organizations identify and develop missionary candidates?
How should mobilization teams adjust their strategies based on current sector-wide patterns?
- Release
- 2026
- Data period
- 2025 year-end
- Publisher
- Missio Nexus
- Format
- Digital PDF
- Length
- 53 pages
- Survey participation
- 81 mission organizations
- Research focus
- Missionary mobilization, recruiting, candidate pipelines, staffing, budgets and sending trends
3 ways to access the report
Organizations that contributed data to this year’s survey receive the full report at no cost.
Get your copyThe member price, for member organizations that did not take part in the survey.
Buy for $50The public listing price. Joining Missio Nexus brings it down to the member price.
Buy for $150Compel Global is an independent missionary mobilization organization that works with prospective missionaries through coaching and helps connect candidates with mission agencies that fit their calling, values and ministry goals. Their work is intended to help mission organizations broaden their reach and strengthen missionary candidate pipelines.
Get the report
Volume 5 is available now — free to participating organizations, $50 for Missio Nexus members, $150 for non-members.