The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches was established to:

• encourage and provide support for the continued planting of independent evangelical churches
• encourage the member churches to ongoing faithful evangelical ministry
• encourage and facilitate regular fellowship, and mutual support, between independent evangelical churches
• facilitate access to and enable the sharing of resources employed in planting, managing and operating independent evangelical churches
• facilitate the recruiting, training and employment of staff of independent evangelical churches
• facilitate movement of staff between independent evangelical churches and other evangelical churches
• promote the ministries of independent evangelical churches