Helping believers passionately, quickly, and effectively reach the least-reached 27% of our world?
Seeing increased effectiveness through self-discipline, accountability and unwavering focus?
Do we need a variety of approaches? Do we need to avoid the "Garden of Eden" mindset that we can become "like God" and find and teach the only way to do missions among the unreached? Do we need these various ministries and do we need them to work more strategically and effectively together?
Do we also recognize that the Church needs the existence of two other structures that will help it make this process effectively and completely? These two structures are missionary-sending agencies or structures and equipping centers, which provide both biblical-theological teaching as well as cross-cultural missionary training.
Can we trust this network to provide mutual learning to pastors and leaders of the churches? It is an exchange process that helps us learn lessons from other groups and enables us to translate these experiences into effectiveness in the development of the work.
Can we seek primarily to form new partnerships, to build capacity to provide quality mentoring of individuals, groups and churches for effective cross-cultural ministry, and to consistently serve as an advocate for unreached groups?
Is there a vision for a church planting movement in every country and people group within a region, a focused and effective prayer movement, and the transformation of society through the supernatural power of God?
Note that there are already more missionaries from the non-west as there is growth in the church from non-western countries compared to the decline of the church in western countries.
This includes the reality that
more missionaries from nonwestern regions of the world (and
non-traditionally missionary sending countries in the west) are starting to work cross-culturally in
missions.
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