Mission on Your Doorstep DuPage County

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Mission on Your DoorstepDuPage County

• Cross-Cultural Mission Consortium
• 2008

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The Change In Immigration
A Dramatic Immigration Shift
Our Neighborhoods Are Changing
In the 1st decade of the 20th Century, 91.6
were European
By last decade of the 20th Century, 77.9
were Asian and Hispanic
Today ONE in FIVE speak a language other
than English at home
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The Shift In Population
A Significant Decline in Percentage of the White,
Non-Hispanic Population
If the current trend continues, there will be no
majority racial or ethnic group in this country
by mid-century.
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The Foreign Born
More than 33 million of those now residing here
were born outside the U.S.
One in Nine in this country is now Foreign Born.
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DuPage CountyTrends Graph
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DuPage CountyCensus Trends

1970 to 2000 84 46 1500 4200 370




Year Total White Non-Hispanic Black Non-Hispanic Asian Non-Hispanic Hispanic

2000 904,161 711,966 26,977 70,908 81,366
1990 781,666 693,446 15,012 39,298 32,795
1980 658,835 612,606 7,742 29,627 17,302
1970 492,181 487,871 1,652 1,635 NA
Hispanic change in percent is from 1980 rather
than 1970
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Ethnic AmericaHidden and Hurting
Facts about these newcomers
 Fewer than 10 will be befriended by an
Americanlet alone a Christian
 They are truly hidden from the life and
ministry of most believers
 They come believing the United States to be
a Christian country
A WARM Welcome
 From their heritage, many have no concept of
the separation of religion and government
 Many are perplexed by the lifestyle
displayed by the Christians around them
is a language every culture understands.
Unless pressured, most are quite open to
discussing spiritual things
 The Christian faith tends to be defined by the
media, our schools and the general population
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Today, the MISSION FIELD has come to us.
The smaller our global village, the greater our
opportunity
to show the peoples of the world the love of
JESUS CHRIST.
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Cross-Cultural Mission ConsortiumOur purpose
is to mobilize and equip a movement of churches
in DuPage County towards local cross-cultural
mission and discipleship.
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Who is CCMC?

• Missional Evangelical Organizations in DuPage
  County
• Local Churches
• Mission Agencies
• Social Service/Community Development Agencies

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Challenge Response

• CHALLENGE
• Kingdom collaboration in cross-cultural mission
  to those outside the church without love, unity,
  and prayer inside the Church will prove
  unsustainable and hypocritical.
• RESPONSES
• Provide a quarterly forum for ministry leaders to
  worship, pray, learn, and build relationships
  across cultural organizational boundaries
• Establish/connect to a prayer network
• WHY?
• Unity and oneness is mandated in the Scripture,
  prayed for by Jesus, and is our primary
  apologetic.
• John 1721, Ephesians 326-29

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Vision
Love God
Love One Another
RECONCILIATION Overcoming Cultural,
Denominational, Relational, Language and
Economic Barriers to Bring People to God
Love Our Neighbor
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Challenge Response 2

• CHALLENGE
• The Church in DuPage County in general is not
  aware of our changing communities nor why/how we
  to be involved missionally.
• RESPONSE
• Conduct a Mission on Your Doorstep training
  conference March 1st, 08 (also People of Faith
  mention)
• Develop tools to assist in awareness and ministry
  mobilization
• WHY?
• We havent yet opened our eyes to the harvest in
  our own communities John 435
• We still need to know how best to love our
  neighbors not like us

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Challenges Responses 3

• CHALLENGE
• There are barriers to mobilizing our congregants
  into cross-cultural mission
• RESPONSE
• Begin self-discovery through listening, surveys,
  and research
• WHY?
• Cultural worldview baggage is not easily
  discerned but needs to inform our preparation
  strategy

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Challenges Response 4

• CHALLENGE
• There are barriers to integrating (not
  assimilating) those from other cultures into our
  churches
• RESPONSE
• Learn through listening, surveys, and research
• WHY?
• Jesus upon clearing the temple, My house will be
  called a house of prayer for all nations.
• Mark 1117

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Challenge Response 5

• CHALLENGE
• Current mission efforts to the foreign-born
  community is often not guided by those we serve
  or by those developing best practices in
  cross-cultural mission
• RESPONSE
• Listen and research foreign-born community needs
  and priorities
• Develop/gather a manual of best practices,
  ministry models, and best practices in local
  cross-cultural outreach
• Document and share two model church ministry case
  studies

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Challenges Responses 6

• CHALLENGE
• Current mission efforts to the foreign-born
  community are NOT coordinated, cooperative, or
  collaborative.
• RESPONSE
• Catalogue of church and mission agency resources
  and programs
• Develop Ministry Networks around already
  existing ministry that build and implement a
  long-term strategy that includes all aspects of
  mission delivery social services, community
  development, church planting, leadership
  development, etc.
• WHY?
• We must leverage Kingdom resources to have a
  multiplying Kingdom impact for generations to
  come.

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Current Examples of Collaboration

• PEOPLE GROUP
• Burmese Ministry Network
• South Asian Ministry Network
• APARTMENT COMPLEX
• Wheaton Square Apartments Ministry Network
• Roosevelt Road Apartments Ministry Network

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How Can My Church/Agency Be Involved?

• Self-assessment
• Resources
• Experience
• Programs relationships already engaged
• Community assessment
• Who are my neighbors (5 mile radius)?
• What are the best ways for me to love and
  minister to them?
• What churches in my area are ministering
  cross-culturally?
• Leaders commit to build relationships across
  cultures
• Link into awareness and training opportunities
• Engage/help start ministry network
• Provide funding for DuPage County research
  efforts and publication of tools and resources

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CCMC 2008 Calendar

• January 9th vision-cast _at_ Mission Leadership
  Network (College Church)
• March 1st Mission on Your Doorstep conference
  (Wheaton Bible Church)
• April 17th quarterly meeting Love One Another
  (Wheaton Bible Church)
• June 19th quarterly meeting Love Our Neighbor
  (TBD)
• August 30th quarterly meeting Love God _at_ at
  The Nations Worship (College Church)
• October 16th quarterly meeting Love Our Enemy
  (TBD)
• 2009 March 6/7th Mission on Your Doorstep
  Conference (Wheaton Bible Church)

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CCMC Resources

• Multi-ethnic multi-denominational relationships
• Facilitation of ministry networking,
  coordination, collaboration
• Research trends, tools, neighborhood mapping
• Church consultation training