Vulnerable Mission conference, USA, January 2009

See http://www.vulnerablemission.com for details of regional conferences in the USA in January 2009. ‘Vulnerable Christian Mission’ is that practiced by western missionaries reaching non-westerners using the resources and language of the non-westerners in ministry. By working within the parameters of those being reached, vulnerable missionaries avoid [...]

First Portuguese Missionary Conference

brought together
denominational leaders, 14 missionary organizations, missionaries and
church planters, bi-vocational workers and representatives from Italy,
Luxemburg and Spain. Read more.

A “Body of Christ” Missiology

In 1955, President Sukarno, the first President of Indonesia helped convene the first Asia-Africa meeting (which is now the Non-Aligned Movement). In a famous address, he said proudly, “We are not of the First world, the West, nor of the Second world the East.” We are off the Third World.” This term was not a [...]

Member Care Workshop

The group began by discussing the reasons for attending the workshop. These included:
1. The need for resources
2. Desire for creative ideas for newer sending agencies
3. Interact with the Facilitators
4. Responsibility for member care for Indonesians
5. Desire to include discipleship for young church members
6. Support of Filipino MKs
7. Internationalizing MK education resources
A thorough discussion of Member [...]

The UPG Workers Strategy Group

This strategy group worked to identify possible solutions to the new challenges to recruiting placing, training, and caring for workers serving among the Least Reached Peoples (Unreached People Groups), especially in light of constantly changing “sending” and “receiving” contexts.
We examined perceived new changes in the world, perceived changes in the missions, and related these to [...]

The Holistic Gospel Movement Strategy Group

The Holistic Gospel Movement Strategy Group was comprised of people from all over the world with a commitment to see God start Gospel movements among the unreached. The group began by establishing clear definitions: A “church” is: “A local group of baptized believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who gather regularly for worship, nurture, and [...]

The Harvest Linked Prayer Strategy Group

At Ethnê, an unprecendented year-long prayer and harvest effort was launched to see strategic harvest outreaches to the least-reached in each region of the world (12 regions in all) for the 90 days during and immediately following the month of global prayer. United prayer will open doors and fuel effective outreach efforts throughout the earth. [...]

The Ethne06 Crisis Response Strategy Group

The Ethnê FCRN met over 3 days at Ethnê06 to discuss issues related to crisis/disaster response and how we can work together for a cohesive response in such circumstances in the future. Discussed at length were issues related to our experiences and lessons learnt in the past 2-3 years as a result of the relief [...]

Regional Network Presentations

Several of the major unreached people group ministry networks were invited to make short presentations during the plenary sessions. With their permission, a synopsis of each of their presentations is given here. For security reasons, we have sanitized them. Unfortunately this results in them being rather “bland” and void of significant details. If you are [...]

Global Trends: challenges and opportunities for transformational mission movements

Ed. Note: This article was developed with permission from personal notes from Dr. Santoso’s presentation, text from his presentation outline and his powerpoint. Any mistakes are mine. —J. Long

The scope of the gospel is the same as the scope of sin and its effects. Because sin has penetrated individuals, families, communities, cities & nations, it [...]