OMF International was founded by James Hudson Taylor in England in 1865 as the China Inland Mission. CIM mobilization expanded to America in 1888. The "reluctant exodus" of CIM missionaries from China led to the re-focus of the mission in 1953. Today, OMF International is an evangelical, international and interdenominational mission agency with mobilization centers in over 20 countries. By God's grace we aim to see indigenous church movements in more than 20 countries and 100 people groups in Asia. OMF-US is committed to "glorify God by the mobilization of resources for the urgent evangelization of East Asia's Peoples."