MISSION HAS COME HOME TO YOUR COMMUNITY A Compassionate Ministry Workshop

Mission Has Come Home to Your Community Facilitator, Jerry Appleby  Presently Executive Director – Reaching Our City, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK.  15 Years Overseas  Started Churches in Nine languages groups  Planted 16 churches.  Pastored five churches  Started two Compassionate Ministry Centers (Christian Community Development Non-profit Organizations)

WHAT DO YOU SEE…? The young lady or the old woman?

We are entering (FICTICIOUS FOREIGN COUNTRY)

Questions we must have answered 1. Qualifications of the Missionaries 2. Training Program for the Missionaries. 3. Steps toward program development 4. Steps toward church planting  Music  Worship  Architecture  Service Schedule 5. Training for local workers

We are entering

Questions we must have answered 1. Qualifications of the Missionaries 2. Training Program for the Missionaries. 3. Steps toward program development 4. Steps toward church planting  Music  Worship  Architecture  Service Schedule 5. Training for local workers

BOULDERS WE HIDE BEHIND 1. Communication Values 3. Social Class 4. Fear 5. Paternalism

Slaying The Giants Stone for overcoming the Barriers 1. Communication 2. Values 3. Social Class 4. Fear 5. Pluralism

Testing Your Adaptive Skills (see test in word document) Section One: If you strongly agree, mark “4” If you agree, mark “3” If you might agree, mark “2” If it is rarely true, mark “1” If you disagree, mark “0”

Testing Your Adaptive Skills Section Two: If you strongly agree with left statement, mark “4” If you strongly agree with right statement, mark “0” Vary your response number if you are in between the two.

Testing Your Adaptive Skills Section 1 & 2 Scoring (1 – 2 = score):  = INNOVATOR Comes up with good ideas  = CHANGE AGENT Pushes good ideas  = ADOPTS IDEAS EARLY, jumps on, goes with the flow.  -36 – 0 = RELUCTANT ADOPTER  -72 to –36 = ACTIVE RESISTOR TO CHANGE

Testing Your Adaptive Skills Section Three: 5 = Rarely (10% or less) 4 = Occasionally (approx. 30%) 3 = Sometimes (approx. 50%) 2 = Frequently (approx. 70%) 1 = Usually (90%+)

Testing Your Adaptive Skills Section Three Scoring : POSSIBLE SCORES: External Internal  External = Belief that events, chance, and/or faith effect your reaction.  Internal = Belief that events and situations are under ones own control.

Testing Your Adaptive Skills Section Four: (Support Seeking Index) 5 = Rarely (10% or less) 4 = Occasionally (approx. 30%) 3 = Sometimes (approx. 50%) 2 = Frequently (approx. 70%) 1 = Usually (90%+)

Testing Your Adaptive Skills 20+Optimal 17-19Balance 12-16Strain 0-11Burnout

The Missionary Leader 1. Personality – Socially and psychologically adaptive 2. Affective Skills Responsive to changing situations

The Missionary Leader 3. General Knowledge of Anthropology and Linguistics – 4. Willingness and Ability to Teach Others

The Missionary Leader The Pauline Example of Cross Cultural Leadership 1. They Write Letters (II Corinthians 2:14 - 3:6) 2. They Expect Sacrifice (Colossians 4:1-18) 3. They Are Not Ashamed of the Gospel (Romans 1:1-17) 4. They Believe That Faith Works Through Love (Galatians 5:16)

The Missionary Leader The Pauline Example of Cross Cultural Leadership 5. They State Their Faith Simply (Galatians 5:16-26; 6:7-10) 6. They Believe that the Church is the People of God (Ephesians 1:1-14) 7. They Believe in the Future (Philippians 3:1-14) 8. They are Rebels with a Cause (Ephesians 6:13)

The Missionary Leader The Pauline Example of Cross Cultural Leadership 9. They are Responsible Citizens (Philippians 1:1-13) 10. They have a true Sense of Value (Ephesians 4:11-16) 11. They Seal Their Loyalty with Their Lives (II Corinthians 11:21-30)

WHY IS GOD INTERNATIONIZING OUR NATION?  TO CLOSE THE BACK DOOR OF MISSIONS.  TO AWAKEN OUR CHURCHES TO DAY-TO-DAY MISSION WORK IN OUR OWN BACKYARD.  TO SHOW THE UNITED STATES EXAMPLES OF UNITY AMIDST DIVERSITY.  TO EVANGELIZE PEOPLE WHO CANNOT BE REACHED IN THEIR NATIVE CULTURE.  TO ESTABLISH AN ETHNIC POOL OF POTENTIAL MISSIONARIES.  TO ALLOW THOSE WITH MISSIONARY GIFTS TO BE USED EFFECTIVELY RIGHT IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD.

What Can We Learn From Overseas Missionaries  Go Where They Are.  Learn Their Language.  Win the Right to be Heard.  Bridge the Gap through Friendship.  Allow cultural differences

LET’S BE MISSIONAL IN OUR EVANGELISTIC STRATEGY FOR REACHING OUR CITY