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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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’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 ©Depositphotos.com/Bobby Wijaya

Educate and Raise Awareness

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Collect Missions Offerings ©Depositphotos.com/Aaron Amat/Joe Belanger/Vladimir Wangel

Organize the Annual Missions Conference

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Moral Support for the Missionary ©microsoftoffice

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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Goals and a Work Plan

Establish short-, medium-, and long-term goals.

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Some Important Considerations

Missions Champion

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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 Protsak/Milan Vasicek A large Missionaries denomination © Depositphotos.com/Aleksei Elkin/ 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 A /photography33/Denis Cristo/Arunas Gabalis/Yuri Arcurs/Robbi Akbari Kararuddin/Binksi A small denomination local church Missions sending agencies Missionary training institutes Missions receiving agencies Missions committees Adopt -A People ©Depositphotos.com/Aleksei Elkin/ 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.

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The Plays

A large denomination (Baptist or Assemblies of God) Baptist missionaries Baptist missions sending agency Baptist missions receiving agency The Baptist denomination in Mexico New Baptist churches on the field ©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.

Mega-church with many daughter churches and its own missions sending agency (Castle of the King, Monterrey, Mexico) Its own missions sending agency The mother church 40 missionaries Various receiving agencies in various fields 140 daughter churches ©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.

The missionary The focus on the missionary Missions Sending agency Missions receiving 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 ©Depositphotos.com/Aleksei Elkin/Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-G-O/Christos Georghiou/Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-G-O/Viltoria Protsak/Milan Vasicek/photography33//Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher.

Focus on the field agency (Bihar Outreach Network, Bihar, India, BORN) Field missions 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 ©Depositphotos.com/Christos Georghiou/Alexander Aisenstadt/S-E-R-G-O/Viltoria Protsak/Robi Akbari Kamaruddin/Yuri Arcurs/Milan 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 missions 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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