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An Idea Whose Time Has Come

An Idea Whose Time Has Come. Protecting Short-Term Mission from degenerating into the next onslaught of Western Mission Imperialism. Mutually Transforming Mission Partnerships. “What will it take for India to become Christian?” “It will only take for Christians to be Christian.”

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come

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  1. An Idea Whose Time Has Come Protecting Short-Term Mission from degenerating into the next onslaught of Western Mission Imperialism Mutually Transforming Mission Partnerships

  2. “What will it take for India to become Christian?” “It will only take for Christians to be Christian.” Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Why do people want our short-term mission teams? Hope for $? Resources? Technical Assistance? Teaching? Evangelism?

  4. The First Time We Come, They Hope They are Receiving: • Our best • Our leaders • People of spiritual maturity • Well-trained cross-cultural workers • Skilled professionals

  5. After we leave, we don’t want them to feel: • Relieved • Exhausted • Behind in their work • Used • Diminished • Embarrassed

  6. Are we sending people... • We wouldn’t employ to lead our own churches, businesses or organizations? • To whom we wouldn’t entrust our own children? • To give experiences they wouldn’t seek at home because of less glamour and adventure?

  7. I was just wondering…did you come because of: • Your desire for adventure? • Your search for significance? • Your affluence? • God’s call? • The desire to serve? • Your giftedness & training?

  8. The Most Desired Qualities for Short-Term Guests • Three Attitudes • Humility—Showing up late to a meeting • Affirmation—Refusing to play the part of a critic • Vulnerability—Not being afraid of weakness • Three Roles • Student—Coming as a learner • Servant—Working hard at whatever needs to be done • Storyteller—Witnessing to the hope that we’ve received One Result:Long Term Friendship

  9. From adventures, projects, $ & missionaries to partnering with entire communities Long-term Partner-ship for Long-term impact Multi-faceted commitment

  10. “Partnership is an idea whose time has not yet fully come. But…the birth-pains have begun.” “‘Partner’ is derived from parcener, denoting coheirship.” Max Warren, 1954

  11. The Trans-national Trans-ethnic Body of Christ: God’s glue for holding together a fractured world

  12. The Global Church Led from the 3rd world with passionate devotion

  13. Mutually Transforming Mission Partnerships Local and Global Communities US Churches Agencies • Agency • Provides: • Mission education • Involvement & Partnership • Program Facilitation • Channel for resources • Mediation • Evaluation • Churches Experience: • Spiritual Growth & transformation • Long-term partnerships • Tangible focus & involvement • Faithful stewardship of Resources • Communities • Experience: • Community Development • Enhanced spiritual growth and quality of life • Global partnerships • Dignity through being teachers

  14. Community Partnerships • Engagement of churches from both regions and expertise of agencies united • Shared responsibility and control • Transformation of both communities

  15. 10 Keys to effective partnerships • Shared expectations: dreams for future • Accept advantages of cooperation • Seek immediately achievable successes

  16. 4. Mutual accountability • Clear standards of training, financial management • Agreed upon decision-making process • Clear evaluation criteria

  17. 8. Clear time frame, exit strategy 9. Clear understanding of the nature of the commitment 10. Mutually acceptable coordinator

  18. Skills Americans need for cross-cultural partnerships • Value community over individual • Value cooperation over competition • Value relationships over measurable results • Value differences over similarity

  19. Equiping churches for global teamwork • Congregational education: employing non-western mission educators • Multi-cultural/national teams • Focus on relational development • Long-term community partnerships

  20. Toward genuine interdependence “The mission of the church means a real interdependence between churches in differing contexts. . . . Such an authentic partnership is actually between two crippled partners —the blind and the lame—who cannot go on a journey unless the blind person provides legs for the lame, and the lame person eyes for the blind. . . .The end of partnership is not the mutual sharing of gifts alone. It is that the world may see the one new person created out of two (Ephesians 2), and so believe that God sent Jesus (John 17).”Vinay Samuel

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