DATE
May 20-22, 2010
VENUE
COST
$300 base fee
Discounts:
$25 Early Bird (by 3/20/10)
$25 if staying at venue
$50 CrossGlobal Link member
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Becoming Globally Friendly is a consultation designed to address perhaps the biggest challenge with which traditional mission organizations currently wrestle: knowing how to effectively engage the majority world missions movement. The Lord has given much fruit from years of sacrificial service evidenced by the transformation of a mission field into a mission force. However, few anticipated the impact and complications this would bring North American sending organizations as they look for ways to work with and alongside of this new mission force.
This gathering will pull together decision makers from many key international missions who are seeking to adapt to the new reality of global missions where missionaries come from countries that were, until recently, considered mission fields. It seems that everyone is asking, “How can we change our organization so it is friendly to the new global reality?”
Eldon Porter, CrossGlobal Link Consultant for Global Connections, has surveyed approximately forty interdenominational mission organizations to identify a base line of the key challenges each group is facing. There are four primary issues that will serve as the agenda, as the basis to:
- hear others' perspectives on the very issues with which you are wrestling
- ask questions of those taking different approaches on the same issue
- see examples of policies and material that others have developed
- explore together areas where the solutions might require cooperation between various groups
- make specific plans on how we can move forward together to effectively engage the majority world missions’ movement