A new mission society has sprung up in Southern Ethiopia known as Rift Valley Vision. Their goal is to train missionaries, plant churches and see healthy productive communities. Although this mission has only been in existence since 2001 they have already grown from 0 to 230 missionary untis (a few singles).

They have planted 599 churches, preached to 780,000 people, seen 38,680 people respond to the Gospel—71 of whom where sheiks. Now 40 of these former sheiks have just completed a nine month course strengthening their faith and teaching them how to do evangelism and cross cultural mission.

Besides being one of the first interdenominational and indigenous mission of its kind in Ethiopia, RVV is unique in that the first year's operating and salary costs were covered by World Vision Ethiopia. But within that first year, they were able to build the capacity they need to be self-supporting.

They found ways of building vision into the existing Christian NGOs in Ethiopia (like World Vision and Prison Fellowship), not to get support from the NGO itself – but rather to get the Christian workers in it to support the Vision from their (usually significantly higher) salaries.

They also found Christian affinity groups like the Ethiopian Christian Pilots Association and challenged them to take on the support of some of their missionaries. They have been able to activate the Ethiopian diaspora in South Africa and other countries to support their programs. RVV is breaking new ground here and showing the way ahead for new emerging missions