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 church
member views the
world and does his
or her part to fulfill
the Great
Commission.
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Why is it important that the
missions committee exist?
What does the missions
committee do?
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?
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•
Determine God’s will in Adopting
an Ethnic Group
Investigate
The World’s
Meeting 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 Mission Offerings
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Belanger/Vladimir Wangel
Organize the Annual Missions
Conference
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Malchev/photography33
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
Missions
Champion
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Safety
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Models of Cooperation with the
Missions Community
Let us use soccer
as a metaphor of
team work. The
purpose is to …
Score Goals!
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The Players
Individuals
Missionaries
A large
denomination
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Elkin/Patrick Bombaert/
Mohamad Shahreen Amri/Oleksandr Lupol/Patrick Guénette/Vladimir Galantsev/Vladimir Galantsev/Alexander Aisenstadt/Viltoria
Protsak/Milan Vasicek
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A small
denomination
Sending
mission
agencies
Missionary
training
institutes
Receiving
mission
agencies
A
local
church
Missions
committees
Adopt-APeople
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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
Adopt-APeople
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Amri/Oleksandr Lupol/Patrick Guénette/Vladimir Galantsev/Vladimir Galantsev/Alexander Aisenstadt
The Plays
A large denomination (Baptist or Assemblies of God)
Baptist
missionaries
Baptist sending
mission agency
Baptist receiving
mission agency
The Baptist
denomination
in Mexico
New Baptist
churches on
the field
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Protsak/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
Mega-church with many daughter churches and its own sending
mission agency (Castle of the King, Monterrey, Mexico)
Its own sending
mission agency
The
mother
church
40 missionaries
Various receiving
agencies in
various fields
140
daughter
churches
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Protsak/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
A Small Denomination in an Alliance with any Sending Mission Agency
and a specific Receiving Agency on the Field (Euroafrica Vision)
A strategic alliance
with any sending
mission agency
Various missionaries
A strategic alliance with
Euroafrica Vision to reach
a specific ethnic group
A small
denomination
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Suzanne Hatcher.
The focus on the missionary
The missionary
Sending
mission
agency
Receiving mission agency on the
field and the specific ethnic group the
missionary has been called to reach
A network of individuals
and churches
unknown to each other
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Vasicek/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
Focus on the field agency
(Bihar Outreach Network, Bihar, India, BORN)
Field mission
agency (BORN)
Various ethnic groups
adopted by the field agency
in a geographic area
A large, even international,
network of individuals, churches,
and denominations, unknown to
each other
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Vasicek//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.
The local church as the focus
The missionary is sent
and supported solely
by the local church.
The sending
mission agency
plays a minor role.
The receiving
agency oversees
her work on the field.
A local church selects missionaries from its own
membership and assumes the responsibility
for preparing and supporting them.
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Protsak/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.