It provides a platform for fellowship, cooperation, and mission sending.
All ministry, cooperation, missions, and meetings are at the initiative of member churches.
[3] FIRE consists of over 120 churches in the United States and internationally in Brazil, Canada, Spain, West Indies, Israel, Italy, India and Mauritius.
While voting membership is restricted to churches, individuals also participate in this network of churches through a provision for individual membership.
Member churches sponsor missionaries in the Philippines, Spain, France, Mexico, Montenegro, South Africa, Israel, Mozambique, Ireland.