A Missions Strategy Jerry Kroll

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A Missions StrategyJerry Kroll
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I. The Missionary God

• The Old Testament
• Genesis 315 123 Exodus. 916
  Joshua 424
• Psalms 4517 1051 Isaiah 4310

B. The New Testament Matthew
2819-20 Ephesians 411-12 2
Timothy 22
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II. The Need
What are the challenges?
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A. World Population Growth

• 1804 1 billion
• 1927 2 billion 123 years
• 1960 3 billion 33 years
• 1974 4 billion 14 years
• 1987 5 billion 13 years
• 1999 6 billion 12 years

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It Seems Impossible to Reach them
Population Challenge
5.5 billion lost people in the world Viewing 5
per second it would take 35 years to see
everyone. Related video from International
Mission Board-SBC at www.churchmedialink.com
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Of the Worlds Population

• Two billion claim to be Christians
• 650 million born again
• 124 million lost souls born each year
• 25 million baptized per year
• Increase of 99 million lost per year
• Bryant L. Myers, The New Context of World
  Mission
• Patrick Johnstone, The Church is Bigger Than
  You Think

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B. Unreached Peoples

• 15,900 people groups
• 6,400 unreached people groups
• 1.6 billion with no access (2.7b little or no
  access)
• 72,000 to 87,000 current estimates of number
  evangelized per day
• 252,000 per day needed to reach them by 2025
• According to Joshua Project
  (joshuaproject.net)
• How many have you reached today?

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The Violent World

• 50 ongoing wars
• 50 million uprooted people
• 1 billion with no basic social services
• Terrorism
• Persecution

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D. Post-Christian WorldPost-Modern World
Humanism
Evolution
Corruption
Ethical deterioration
Unbridled Consumption
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III. The ProblemOur Missions Train
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III. The Problem
Two Problems

• A. The Theological Problem
• B. The Practical Problem

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A. The Theological Problem

• 1. Authority of Scripture
• Glory of God
• Lost condition of mankind
• Unique provision of Christ
• Necessity of preaching the gospel

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B. The Practical ProblemTwo Missions Support
Systems

• Two tracks

• Outside Track Denominational
• Inside Track Faith

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The Denominational System

• Advantages
• Very efficient
• Missionaries sent to the field quickly.
• Missionaries dont worry about churches or
  individuals being faithful in their continued
  giving.
• Missionaries dont have to return if support is
  lacking .

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The Denominational System

• Disadvantages
• Very impersonal...
• Little contact with local churches.
• Less prayer because less personal.

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The Faith System

• Advantages
• Missionaries learn to trust God by faith in
  raising their support as well as trusting God for
  the support to continue.
• Direct relationship between the missionary and
  the supporting churches or individuals.

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The Faith System

• Advantages
• Greater incentive to pray for faith missionaries
  because of the personal relationship.
• Greater knowledge of faith missionaries, their
  work and their needs. And historically,
• Greatest work in missions has been done by those
  who had to trust God by faith.

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The Faith System

• Disadvantages
• From a business standpoint, it is inefficient. It
  often takes faith missionaries two, three or more
  years to raise their support.
• Churches have not kept up with the rising costs
  of missions and are giving woefully token support
  to their missionaries.

Avg. Support 100
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The Faith System

• Disadvantages
• Emphasis on quantity rather than quality of
  support.
• Pride factor can affect churches in bragging
  about the number of missionaries supported.
• Often a lack of strategic planning because
• there is no central leadership
• or authority.

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IV. The SolutionSwitch Tracks / Adopt a World
Missions Strategy
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A. Is it biblical to have a strategy?

• For I know the plans I have for you (Jer.
  2911)
• In his heart a man plans his course, but the
  LORD determines his steps. (Prov. 169)
• Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your
  plans will succeed. (Prov. 163)
• The plans of the diligent lead to profit as
  surely as haste leads to poverty. (Prov. 215)
• The horse is made ready for the day of battle,
  but victory rests with the LORD. (Prov. 2131)
• Multitude of Counselors (Prov. 1114 1522
  246)

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B. Missions StrategyTraditional
Paradigmvs.World Missions Paradigm
1. ApproachTraditional World Missions
Re-active Pro-active Individual call
Corporate call
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Traditional Approach
An Individual Call

• The person
• Receives call

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Traditional Approach
An Individual Call

• The person
• Receives call
• Determines field

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Traditional Approach
An Individual Call

• The person
• Receives call
• Determines field
• Selects agency

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Traditional Approach
An Individual Call

• The person
• Receives call
• Determines field
• Selects agency
• Enlists support

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A Corporate Call

• While they were worshipping the Lord and
  fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me
  Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have
  called them. Acts 132

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A Corporate Call

• When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that
  Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent
  Peter and John to them. Acts 814

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A Corporate Call

• News of this (conversions in Antioch) reached
  the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they
  sent Barnabas to Antioch. Acts 1122

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A Corporate Call
Acts 1122-26

• Determining where God was working
• Sending leaders
• Preparing leaders to make field decisions
• Starting new works

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A Corporate Call

• The church (Antioch) sent them on their way,
  and as they traveled through Phoenicia and
  Samaria they told how the Gentiles had been
  converted Acts 153

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A Corporate Call

• Then the apostles and elders, with the whole
  church, decided to choose some of their own men
  and send them to Antioch Acts 1522

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A Corporate Call

• The brothers (Bereans) immediately sent Paul
  to the coast. Acts 1714

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A Corporate Call

• When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the
  brothers encouraged him Acts 1827

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2. SupportTraditional World Missions
Individual Body Para-church 75
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2. SupportTraditional World Missions

• Individual Body
• Token Significant
• 101 - Supporting
• Church Syndrome

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Token Support
Alarming Trends

• 1. Percentage of church support reduced
• 2. Churches have not kept up with the increasing
  costs of missions
• 3. The rapid movement away from church support to
  individual support

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A Sending Model
The One Plus Five Model

• Sending Church 50 support
• Five supporting churches 10 each
• (Options 110 115 120)
• Sending-Supporting Church Partnership

Advantages

• Pre-field deputation is reduced
• Home ministry dramatically changes

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A Sending Model
The sending church provides housing and
transportation during home ministry.
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A Sending Model
The missionary serves - six
months in sending church - one month
in each supporting church.
Habitat for Eternity
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A Sending Model
The missionary promotes missions, visits, wins
souls, speaks in classes, does projects, etc.
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A Sending Model
The wife and children can join the husband at the
supporting church for four weekends.
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A Sending Model
The children can stay in school.
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A Sending Model
The family takes a month vacation and returns to
the field both physically and spiritually
refreshed.
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A Sending Model
Both the sending and supporting churches are
enriched and challenged to reach the world.
They will know their missionaries
better, pray for them more frequently,
and support them more fully.
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3. SelectionTraditional World Missions
Proliferation Discrimination Emotion


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3. SelectionTraditional World Missions
Proliferation Discrimination Emotion
Relationship

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3. SelectionTraditional World Missions
Proliferation Discrimination Emotion
Relationship

• Sent (First priority)

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3. SelectionTraditional World Missions
Proliferation Discrimination Emotion
Relationship

• Sent (First priority)
• Supported

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Selection Process Sent Missionaries
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Selection Process Supported Missionaries
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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic Duplication of effort
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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic Duplication of
effort Neglected areas
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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic Duplication of
effort Neglected areas Sun never sets on
the ministry of Traditional Baptist
Church.
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Duplication of Efforts

• of missionaries vs. where they are headed!

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Neglected Areas
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The Imbalance
Church Challenge
Imbalance in Missionary Distribution

• Over 85 of all cross-cultural foreign
  missionaries minister among nominal Christian
  peoples.
• For every million unreached Muslims there are
  less than 3 missionaries

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The Imbalance
Church Challenge
Imbalance in Missionary Distribution

• Over 85 of all cross-cultural foreign
  missionaries minister among nominal Christian
  peoples.
• For every million unreached Muslims there are
  less than 3 missionaries

Imbalance in Missions Finances
Question For every 1 of Christian giving to
all causes how much goes to financing pioneer
church planting among unreached peoples?
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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic
1. Aggressive targeting of unreached groups.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church.
Worship is. Missions exists because worship
doesnt. John Piper
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Status of the Great Commission
Countries with the Most Unreached Peoples
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Unreached Peoples
Tribal Peoples 2,700 groups, 176m, 3 Hindu
Peoples 1,800 groups, 820m, 14 Unreligious
Peoples 900 groups, 938m, 15 Muslim Peoples
3,800 groups, 1,279m, 21 Buddhist Peoples 900
groups, 783m, 13
The evangelization of the world in this
generation. Student Volunteer Movement Motto
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4. Placement

• The vast majority of these have never heard and
  have no opportunity to hear.

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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic

• 2. Determine the most strategic ministry for the
  field

• Pioneer Church Planter

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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic

• 2. Determine the most strategic ministry for the
  field

• Pioneer Church Planter
• Infant Church Trainer

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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic

• 2. Determine the most strategic ministry for the
  field

• Pioneer Church Planter
• Infant Church Trainer
• Support Ministries

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4. PlacementTraditional World Missions
Random Strategic
2. Determine the most strategic ministry for the
field

• 3. Decide your main focus, but dont let it be
  your only focus

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5. RelationshipTraditional World Missions
Supporting Sending

• Individual

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5. RelationshipTraditional World Missions
Supporting Sending

• Individual
• Deputation

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5. RelationshipTraditional World Missions
Supporting Sending

• Individual
• Deputation
• Sporadic contact

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5. RelationshipTraditional World Missions
Supporting Sending

• Sending church team Sending Teams

When landed in 1848 there were no Christians
here when he left in 1872 there were no
heathen. Said of John Geddie
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6. AccountabilityTraditional World Missions
Little or None Team

• Sending church

• Sending church has primary responsibility

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6. AccountabilityTraditional World Missions
Little or None Team

• Sending church

2. Missionary reports to the church
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6. AccountabilityTraditional World Missions
Little or None Team

• Sending church

3. Church leaders should visit and evaluate the
work
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6. AccountabilityTraditional World Missions
Little or None Team

• Sending church

4. Missionary evaluation accountability during
home ministry
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6. AccountabilityTraditional World Missions
Little or None Team

• Sending church
• Supporting churches and agency accountability

Obedience to Christ nearly always costs
everything to two people the one who is called,
and the one who loves that one. Oswald
Chambers
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7. Education and InspirationTraditional World
Missions
Token Passionate

• 1. Utilize missions decorations

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Pictures
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Pictures with Themes
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Collect household items
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Like many countries, music plays an important
role in the lives of its people. However, only
1.4 of Vietnamese can sing the Song of the
Redeemed.
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Artifacts with Pictures
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Borders
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Mission Murals
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Display Cases
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Hat Display
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Pre-made Posters
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Picture, Name Plaque, Newsletter, Prayer card
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Digital Computer Monitors
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Where to get pictures and artifacts

• Your missionaries
• Missions agencies
• Missions organizations
• Church exposure trips
• Business people traveling abroad

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India
might know there is one who cares. Alexander
Duff
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7. Education and InspirationTraditional World
Missions
Token Passionate
1. Utilize missions decorations

• 2. Organize for effectiveness
• Selection team
• Conference team
• Emphasis team

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7. Education and InspirationTraditional World
Missions
Token Passionate

• Utilize missions decorations
• 2. Organize for effectiveness

• 3. Take short-term missions trips

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Types of short-term trips

• Senior Pastor trips

• Staff / Leader trips

• Church trips

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Types of short-term trips
Church trips
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Purpose of short-term trips

• Evangelism
• Training
• Encouragement
• Support medical, construction, education,
  technical

If you are sick, fast and pray if the language
is hard to learn, fast and pray if you have
nothing to eat, fast and pray. Frederick
Franson
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Value of short-term trips

• To the missionary and field
• To the participant

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7. Education and InspirationTraditional World
Missions
Token Passionate

• Utilize missions decorations
• 2. Organize for effectiveness
• 3. Take short-term missions trips

• 4. Plan continued missions emphasis throughout
  the year

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Missions Emphasis
Special Programs

• 30 Day Muslim Prayer Focus
• 30 Day Hindu Prayer Focus
• International Day of Prayer
• for the Persecuted Church
• Praying Through the Window

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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services

• 200b in US church real estate
• Facility utilization rate .006

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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry)
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt
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Church Spending
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4.5
0.5
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt Local
Outreach Nominal Aggressive
You have to build the base at home in order to
reach the world.
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt Local
Outreach Nominal Aggressive
1. Establishing a Presence
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Aggressive Outreach

• Establishing a Presence

Through
- Caring - Media - Business
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt Local
Outreach Nominal Aggressive
1. Establishing a Presence 2. Equipping the
Saints
I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if
judgments do not convert you, God has no other
arrows in His quiver. Robert Murray Cheyne
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Aggressive Outreach

• Equipping the Saints

Through
- Evangelism Training - Resources
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt Local
Outreach Nominal Aggressive
1. Establishing a Presence 2. Equipping the
Saints 3. Engaging the Lost
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HBC Local Outreach Walk-Thru Drama Sportsmans
Banquet
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt Nominal Outreach Aggressive
Outreach
Ministry Pastoral Lay

• Life Training Electives
• New Connections
• Lay Ministry Institute
• Ministry Training

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Ministry Training Workshop
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Single services Multiple services Facilities
(Monuments) Facilities (Ministry) High
debt Low debt Nominal Outreach Aggressive
Outreach Professional Ministry Lay
Ministry Hobby-Horse Balanced
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BalancedMissions and Ministry
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8. Total Church StrategyTraditional World
Missions
Independent Networked Dependent
Had I cared for the comments of people, I should
never have been a missionary. C.T. Studd
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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions

• Everything rises and falls on leadership.
• Reaching individuals verses unreached peoples
• You can win the world for Christ or you can build
  an empire at home, but you cant do both.

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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions
Senior Pastor Supportive Sold
Out
1. Preaches on missions
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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions
Senior Pastor Supportive Sold
Out
1. Preaches on missions 2. Takes missions trips
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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions
Senior Pastor Supportive Sold
Out
1. Preaches on missions 2. Takes missions
trips 3. Encourages missions
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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions
Senior Pastor Supportive Sold
Out
1. Preaches on missions 2. Takes missions
trips 3. Encourages missions 4. Sets the example
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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions
Senior Pastor Supportive Sold
Out
1. Preaches on missions 2. Takes missions
trips 3. Encourages missions 4. Sets the
example 5. Builds a team
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9. Pastoral LeadershipTraditional World Missions
Sr. Pastor Supportive Sr. Pastor Sold Out
Missions Pastor/Coordinator Optional Obligatory
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The Obstacles

• Fundamental Country Club
• Worldly/economic success
• Urbanization
• Provincialism
• Keeping the main thing, the main thing
• Self-sufficiency
• Moral/doctrinal decline
• Pride/fear
• Negative thinking

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IV. How to Make the Transition

• 1. Pray

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you
must go forward on your knees. J. Hudson
Taylor
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IV. How to Make the Transition

• 1. Pray
• 2. Educate and inspire leadership

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you
must go forward on your knees. J. Hudson
Taylor
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IV. How to Make the Transition

• 1. Pray
• 2. Educate and inspire leadership
• 3. Go slow

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you
must go forward on your knees. J. Hudson
Taylor
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IV. How to Make the Transition

• 1. Pray
• 2. Educate and inspire leadership
• 3. Go slow
• 4. Add dont subtract

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you
must go forward on your knees. J. Hudson
Taylor
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IV. How to Make the Transition

• 1. Pray
• 2. Educate and inspire leadership
• 3. Go slow
• 4. Add dont subtract
• 5. Adopt a total church strategy

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you
must go forward on your knees. J. Hudson
Taylor
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IV. How to Make the Transition

• 1. Pray
• 2. Educate and inspire leadership
• 3. Go slow
• 4. Add dont subtract
• 5. Adopt a total church strategy
• 6. Trust God

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you
must go forward on your knees. J. Hudson Taylor
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God is the ultimate Sender!

• Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders
  labor in vain. Psalm 1271
• The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy
  Spirit... Acts 134

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It takes a Teamto fulfill the Dream.

• God never intended for the job to be done alone.
• For we are God's fellow workers you are God's
  field, God's building.
• 1 Corinthians 39
• Are you a Sent One
• or a Sender?

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Where do you fit in?

• You are either a Sent One or a Sender.

I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a
thousand villages villages whose people are
without Christ, without God, and without hope in
the world. Robert Moffat
www.heritagebc.net www.hbcmissions.com
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Intro
Who Wants to Reach a Million There?
HBC Missions
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100 Q
Who Wants to Reach a Million There?
15 1 MILLION 14 500,000 13 250,000 12
125,000 11 64,000 10 32,000 9 16,000 8
8,000 7 4,000 6 2,000 5 1,000 4 500
3 300 2 200 1 100
Which country is closest to the U.S.?
A. Canada
B. Chad
C. Chile
D. China
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200 Q
Who Wants to Reach a Million There?
15 1 MILLION 14 500,000 13 250,000 12
125,000 11 64,000 10 32,000 9 16,000 8
8,000 7 4,000 6 2,000 5 1,000 4 500
3 300 2 200 1 ? 100
Which color is NOT in the U.S. flag?
A. Blue
B. Green
C. Red
D. White
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300 Q
Who Wants to Reach a Million There?
15 1 MILLION 14 500,000 13 250,000 12
125,000 11 64,000 10 32,000 9 16,000 8
8,000 7 4,000 6 2,000 5 1,000 4 500
3 300 2 ? 200 1 ? 100
Which of these missionaries has the most kids?
A. Carls
B. Goetzes
C. Greens
D. Walkers
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Heritage Family Challenge
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3
4
5
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Heritage Family Challenge
France 37
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3
India 8
5
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Heritage Family Challenge
X
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Heritage Family Challenge
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Missionary Squares
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Question 1
Which missionary has the last name Green, but has
hair that is actually white?
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Answer
Ralph Green
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1. Acquire pictures from
Missionaries, Mission agencies, Internet or HBC.
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2. Enlarge pictures.
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3. Mount on Gaterboard Foam.
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4. Trim excess photo.
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5. Attach to wall with Velcro strips.
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6. Attach themes and identification plaques.
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