FIM’s major contribution rests upon the fact that it facilitates and organizes space and opportunity for various local communities of the world-wide Christian communions, the ecumenical movements and people’s movement organizations to come together, share their concerns on the meaning of Christian faith and the manner of its proclamation and witness in different cultural and social, political and economic situations. These local communities share their life, mission, work and their own people with each other across the whole world.

More than forty years of experience placing several hundred young men and women around the world in frontier areas concerning peace with justice have provided a continuing challenge to the status quo of mission.

FIM provides a way in which churches, ecumenical institutions and ecumenical movements can work together to transform and be transformed in their common witness to God’s action in history. Internships have revealed a deeper and broader understanding of ecumenism where it includes sharing life and work with peoples of other faiths and different groups and organizations, committed to seek peace with justice, who are not part of any official ecumenical movement.