apostolic anabaptist teams

Hans Kasdorf (I had this guy for Church History, amazing!) in the Wilbert Schenk-edited "Anabaptism and Mission:

"The Anabaptist churches {of the 1500s} discerned and sent out many apostles. The designation 'apostles' was deliberately chosen for those who were sent out in apostolic teams...the Anabaptist apostolate took on new shape and form..
and we, too, must view with equal significance the ethical teaching of the Sermon on the Mount and the 'magna charta' of the Great Commision.
..The Anabaptists retained the New Testament concept of apostle and applied it to their own missionaries. In fact, they considered the apostolic band of a Paul and Barnabas to be a legitimate model"
(59, 69)