2021 Missions Founding
Data on the dates of missions organization founding.
A significant number of new mission organizations started in the last four decades. Those have included small niche organizations that are focused on a specific cause or area of mission, as well as others that have grown into sizeable sending agencies around the globe.
But do we still need new organizations? Our perspective is, yes. New organizations bring innovation and focus to great commission work. They provide new ways of looking at mission, and new means of discipling, mobilizing and sending the next generation of workers to the unreached. Sizable issues still exist. New organizations provide nimble and agile responses to new issues and new means of looking at old issues.
Whether your organization was founded 100 years ago or last year, we need to be clear in our focus, and not allow structures and systems to turn our organizations into bureaucratic institutions. The world is changing rapidly, and new generations of workers have different values when working with organizations. Are we willing and able to flex, morph, and adapt to be relevant to present realities?
We need to find a way to continue to breathe new life into the missions enterprise. That could be actualized by innovating historic agencies, partnering or merging our efforts with others in new strategic ways or pioneering new organizations that can uniquely address issues today’s challenges. We need to hold the past loosely and maintain our focus on God’s glory and his name being proclaimed among the nations.
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