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The Vision of the World Missions Committee
That the local church have an effective missions program, resulting
in the sending out of missionaries who can count on the sustained spiritual, moral, and economic
support necessary to help reach the unreached ethnic groups of the world.
The Identity of the Missions Committee
What is the missions
committee?
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Cristo/Arunas Gabalis
What is the goal of the missions committee?
The committee serves as the window through which each Christian views the world and does his or her part to fulfill the Great Commission.
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Recommend a Missions Policy for the Church
• Who should we support? • Which theological tendencies do we
support? • How will we raise funds? • What theological preparation will we
look for in the missionaries we support?• •
Investigate
The World’sMeeting Place for
Ethnic Group Profiles
· Visit the page.· Join the network.·Adopt an ethnic group.·Find information.
Used with permission from Etnopedia
Promote Prayer
• Worship service• Prayer meetings• Cell Groups• Sunday school• Personal
devotions
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Organize the Annual Missions Conference
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Malchev/photography33
Goals and a Work Plan
Establish short-,medium-, and long-term goals.
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Some Important Considerations
• The missions champion
• Long-term commitment
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MissionsChampio
n
Models of Cooperation with the Missions Community
Let’s use soccor as a metaphor of team work. The purpose is to …
Score Goals!
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Mohamad Shahreen Amri/Oleksandr Lupol/Patrick Guénette/Vladimir Galantsev/Vladimir Galantsev/Alexander Aisenstadt/Viltoria Protsak/Milan Vasicek
/photography33/Denis Cristo/Arunas Gabalis/Yuri Arcurs/Robbi Akbari Kararuddin/Binksi
The Players
Individuals
MissionariesA largedenomination
A smalldenomination
Alocal
church
Missionssendingagencies
Missionsreceivingagencies
Missionscommittees
Adopt -A-People
Missionarytraining
institutes
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Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-G-O Christos
Georghiou/Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-
G-O/Aleksei Elkin/Patrick Bombaert/
Mohamad Shahreen Amri/Oleksandr
Lupol/Patrick Guénette/Vladimir
Galantsev/Vladimir Galantsev/Alexander
Aisenstadt/Viltoria Protsak/Milan
Vasicek/photography33/Denis
Cristo/Arunas Gabalis/Yuri Arcurs/Robbi
Akbari Kararuddin/Binksi
Three Important Players
These three players figure in all the models that we are going to present. We did not include them in the diagrams in order to make simpler.• Missions committees• Missionary training
institutes• The Adopt-A-People
program
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Lupol/Patrick Guénette/Vladimir Galantsev/Vladimir Galantsev/Alexander Aisenstadt
Adopt-A-People
©Depositphotos.com/Aleksei Elkin/Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-G-O/Christos Georghiou/Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-G-O/Viltoria
Protsak/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
A large denomination (Baptist or Assemblies of God)
The Baptistdenomination
in Mexico
Baptist missionssending agency
Baptistmissionaries
Baptist missionsreceiving agency
New Baptistchurches on
the field
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by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
140daughterchurches
Themotherchurch
Its own missionssending agency
40 missionaries Various receivingagencies in
various fields
Mega-church with many daughter churches and its own missions sending agency (Castle of the King, Monterrey, Mexico)
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Vasicek/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
A network of individualsand churches
unknown to each other
The missionary
The focus on the missionary
MissionsSendingagency
Missions receiving agency on the field and the specific ethnic group the missionary has been called to reach
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Suzanne Hatcher.
A large, even international,network of individuals, churches,and denominations, unknown to
each other
Field missionsagency (BORN)
Various ethnic groupsadopted by the field agency
in a geographic area
Focus on the field agency (Bihar Outreach Network, Bihar, India, BORN)
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Protsak/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
A local church selects missionaries from its own membership and assumes the responsibility
for preparing and supporting them.
The missionary is sent and supported solely
by the local church
The sendingmissions agencyplays a minor role The receiving
agency overseesher work on the field
The local church as the focus