African Enterprise's main aim and passion is to win people in Africa's major cities to faith in Jesus Christ. This is accomplished primarily through preaching the Gospel during evangelistic outreaches in these cities. These outreaches, called missions, involve up to a year or more of partnership with local churches and parachurch agencies to create unity among the Christians in a city. AE also spends this time investing in training of pastors and lay people, as well as promoting prayer initiatives, thus creating a more vibrant and gifted church. An evangelistic mission normally lasts one week, during which AE sends in dozens of skilled evangelists to preach the Gospel throughout a city. This method, called "stratified evangelism," seeks to ensure that the Gospel is communicated to every strata of a city's populace. Hundreds of preaching opportunities are set up, in offices, hospitals, schools, prisons, factories, homes, on streetcorners and taxi ranks, and in stadiums. Normally several thousand people will come to first-time faith in Christ during one of these missions. New believers are then discipled by local churches, whose pastors and lay people have been trained by AE in how to effectively disciple them.