Mobilization Challenges Abroad: Perspectives from Mobilization Directors (MOB)

mlc2016-300x3002x

Jamie Farr

2016 Mission Leaders Conference
Personnel

In a rapidly changing world, Mobilization Directors and their teams are being called upon to reconsider strategies and face new challenges. Hear more about how goals, initiatives, and assumptions are being evaluated in light of global realities. Then, join the conversation in how mobilizers can best respond.

 Non-member: Order recordings via the EGAMI AV Order Form.

Related Articles

Innovations in Mobilization Collaboration

Uber, iPhones, Airbnb, Netflix, and Amazon. The list goes on. Disruptive innovations are taking over traditional North American industries. The missions realm also needs consistent creative effective new ways for how we activate, recruit, and onboard new workers. The environment is ripe for unprecedented breakthroughs in mobilization collaborations in the North American missions’ enterprise.

Mobilization: The Fourth (and Final?) Era of the Modern Mission Movement

Hindsight is always 20/20 and peering into the rearview mirror of missions history, attempting to see it from God’s perspective, is a formidable, but exhilarating, endeavor. One modern thinker who has done a stellar job of helping us understand when, where, and how God has been at work over the centuries is missiologist Dr. Ralph Winter, founder of the U.S. Center for World Mission (now Frontier Ventures).

The Mobilization Index: Connecting the Global Church to the Unreached

Information is powerful. We’ve all experienced moments where the discovery of a particular piece of information has radically shifted the direction of our lives. Many of us in the mission community had our lives transformed when we discovered the theme of God’s global mission that runs from Genesis to Revelation. The realization that God has always been a missionary God continues to challenge countless Christians to consider the direction and purpose of their lives. Or maybe it was the discovery of the unreached, that millions of souls lived beyond the reach of the local church and had little to no access to the gospel that was the watershed moment in your life. State of the World talks that educate and inspire Christians are a regular feature of mission conferences. Thankfully, God has raised up hard-working men and women who dedicate themselves to helping transform Christian worldviews through powerful and up-to-date information.

Persecution: Prelude to Revival

At 2:00 one morning in Jakarta, Indonesia, a mob of approximately 400 Muslims surrounded the house church of one of our church planters. When he peered out the window and saw threatening sticks and stones, machetes and torches, he knew why the unwelcome company was there.