The Vision of the World Missions Committee That the local church have an effective missions program,...

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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.

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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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What does the missions committee do?

Why is it important that the missions committee exist?

Learn and Be Informed

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Network

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Seek a Vision from God

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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?• •

Determine God’s will in Adopting an Ethnic Group

Investigate

The World’sMeeting Place for

Ethnic Group Profiles

· Visit the page.· Join the network.·Adopt an ethnic group.·Find information.

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Promote Prayer

• Worship service• Prayer meetings• Cell Groups• Sunday school• Personal

devotions

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Educate and Raise Awareness

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Collect Missions Offerings

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Belanger/Vladimir Wangel

Organize the Annual Missions Conference

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Moral Support for the Missionary

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Do Short-Term missions

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Plan Special Activities for Children

Organize a Children’s Missionary Adventure!

Look for Missionary Candidates

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Robbi Akbari Kamaruddin

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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Safety

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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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The Players

Individuals

MissionariesA largedenomination

A smalldenomination

Alocal

church

Missionssendingagencies

Missionsreceivingagencies

Missionscommittees

Adopt -A-People

Missionarytraining

institutes

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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

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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

The Plays

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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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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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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