5 Steps toward Global Engagement
We suggest this five-step approach to developing powerful missions involvement in your church. Click the + sign for some key articles for each step below.
- 5 Marks of a Missions-Healthy Church Shaping and measuring your global impact
- Dangerous Shortcuts Beware of hazardous missions temptations
- Navigating a Strategic Missions Course Implementing crucial change in local-church missions involvement
- Expand Your Missions Capacity Five church leaders share how they create margin for breakthrough opportunities
- Where Do We Start? Steps forward at five ministry crossroads
- Partnership-Ready Churches-1 How to assess if a church is ready to embark on global partnership
- What’s Your Missions Strategy? A tool to analyze your church’s global missions approach
- Measure Church Missions Potential 10 Indicators of churches’ potential for global involvement
- A Scale of Church-Agency Relationship Defining 7 levels in the church-involvement spectrum
- Matchmaking A checklist to evaluate compatibility of potential partners
- How Can We Help? Church strategies for responding to global crises
- Sending Kingdom Professionals A tool for churches’ assessment process
- Start Here First steps to ministry with least-reached peoples
- Build Prayer Power! Action steps for a 21st century praying church
- Story Force Two churches employ the power of global narratives
- Generous Living Advent Conspiracy & other ways the church can resource missions
- Kids with Power Children can impact the globe by praying for the nations
- Global Missions in Smaller Church Contexts Four very different churches tell their stories
- Untapped Potential 25 types of missions resources that may be hidden in your church
- The Church/Agency/Missionary Sending Triangle Clarifying sending tasks and how to best collaborate in the process
- Discernment and Development How one church helps guide present and future workers
- Engage the Professionals in Your Church 10 keys to involving leader-level adults in missions
- Revisiting Advocate Teams Developing advocates who bridge between church and missionary
- Short-Term Ministry Ideas Dozens of practical services short-term mission trips can offer
- Restructuring Local Church Missions Options for reorganizing mission committees/teams to foster more involvement
- Ministry Action Teams How Irving Bible Church’s 14 ministry action teams engage over 100 people in their areas of global passion
- When Missionaries Come to Town How to make the most of home-assignment visits
- Financing the Task 21st century difficulties and possible solutions for funding God’s global mission
- Missionary Accountability Wrestling with the church’s challenge to practice it well
- Financing Retired Missionaries How can churches do right by their veteran workers?