1. Engage…
SEND International

2. Visa issues?

3. Sometimes our work feels like…

4. establish reproducing churches establish reproducing churches
mobilize God’s people
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engage the unreached
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establish reproducing churches
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5. engage engage priority of evangelism little or no opportunity to hear
dependence on God
culturally appropriate
research
creative
engage
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priority of evangelism
new works
little or no opportunity to hear

6. Perplexed in Paris What are the core issues?
What are some key factors for engaging effectively?
How would you respond to Jim?
How do we engage people?

7. Awareness
What are their needs? How can we be the “presence” of Jesus to them?
How do they investigate spiritual things?
What counts as “evidence”?
What counts as evidence? Start where they are.

8. Connect and Pray Presence: Familiar; Attender; Friend; Trust
Proclamation: Dialog; Scripture/Story; Study; Follower
Maturity: Growing; Serving; Sharing; Leading; Reproducing
Engage stages (presence, proclamation, maturity). How do these things show presence?
Journey to Jesus. The connect and pray words are the journey to Jesus concepts.

9. Strategy Developed in the local context
SEND provides guidance and values
Biggest contributor in satisfaction is to initiate and sustain relationships.

10. Expansion
People group “…the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance”

11. Unreached “…a people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group.” Diaspora communities

12. Opportunities and Discernment
1 Samuel 26:1-11
Opportunity ≠ Permission
So how do we know?
1 Samuel 26:1-11. David hiding from Saul. Given opportunity to kill him. Opportunity does not equal permission. You need discernment.

13. Discerning Engagement
 Group affirmation
Need/Access
Strategic opportunity
Capacity of SEND
Partnerships
Accessibility
International Council authorizes engagement
Group affirmation:
A sense of compulsion and God’s leading, confirmed by area, regional and
international leadership
Assumes data from the factors listed below
Need:
Absence of an indigenous community of evangelical Christians with adequate
numbers and resources to evangelize this people group (priority given to people
groups with less than 2% evangelical Christians)
Population of the target people group/area
Strategic opportunity:Page 48 of 92
Strategic role of a people group/area (ex. “gateway hubs” to multiple unreached
people groups or other parts of society)
Natural disaster, oppression, or instability within an unreached people group
which may provide an initial platform for helping with recovery
physically/emotionally and reconciliation spiritually
Recognition of unique “timing” and opportunity
Capacity of SEND:
Previous experience and/or contextual expertise by SEND personnel in the required ministry focus
Current availability of resources
Feasibility of further mobilization of potential resources
Partnerships:
Invitation of host culture believers/church (if one exists)
Potential partnerships with other organizations
Accessibility:
Viability of sustainable long-term ministry through access (e.g. visas, political
stability) to the country and (or) people group being targeted
Security for personnel

14. Engaging Human Needs primacy of preaching the gospel
Jesus taught by precept and example our responsibility to the whole person
Gospel and Full person. Model community engagement? We are to be salt and light.

15. Engaging Business
Important part of the overall strategy for establishing churches
Created another organization with which we partner
Journey to Jesus. The connect and pray words are the journey to Jesus concepts.

16. Building Trust
Since TRUST is such an important bedrock for collaboration, we’d like to expand on it further. Trust is built on many factors, including the following:
Understanding: We believe that the other partners understand us and our particular context.
Intent or motive: We believe that they are out for our best, for the accomplishment of agreed-upon Kingdom objectives.
Ability: We believe that they have the ability/competence to deliver on their promises.
Character: We believe that there is sufficient alignment of our moral and ethical qualities, of the attributes which make up our individual and corporate personalities.
Track record: We believe in their track record – so that together we actually can do more.
(adapted from Cloud: The power of the other)

17. E N G A
Make an acrostic by filling in words which begin with each of the following letters. Make sure the words relate to the topic of
“engaging the unreached”.

18. Reflection time