World Relief DuPage pioneered the Mission on Your Doorstep (MOYD) conferences in 2003 and 2004 and after a hiatus formed a partnership in 2007 with Wheaton Bible Church to host the Mission on Your Doorstep Conference annually. From the beginning MOYD was intentionally multi-church and arose out of the awareness that DuPage County, IL, a traditionally white, suburban, upper-middle class community was rapidly changing. By 2020 DuPage County is projected to have no ethnic majority. Churches that have traditionally been focused on overseas mission have been challenged to minister to those on their doorstep from all over the world and to partner with the emerging immigrant congregations and leaders. Initially, MOYD had a focus on "mission to" these new neighbors, with Anglo-Americans in an active giving role and immigrants and minorities in a more passive, receiving role. Over time the MOYD planning team realized the need to do mission together, and sought to include more immigrants and minorities in the conference and on the planning team. This is a shift to "mission with."

The newly-renamed Mission On Our Doorsteps (MOD) movement reflects the desire to be on mission together and for the conference to be fully owned and led by leaders representing a diversity of cultures, ethnicities, organizations and churches. In changing the name, the MOD Planning Team also recognizes a multiplicity of doorsteps that everyone is both being invited into through hospitality and going out of on mission.