Data-Driven Strategies for Mobilizing and Onboarding New Missionaries
What truly drives—or derails—today’s aspiring missionary candidates? Discover hot-off-the-press survey results from 2,428 survey respondents that reveal what aspiring missionaries actually need to move forward, and the unexpected barriers keeping them home. This practitioner-focused presentation translates the raw data shaping today’s mission pipeline into practical mobilization strategies to dismantle the most common obstacles, harness authentic motivation drivers, and transform your recruitment approach to improve your sending effectiveness. Perfect for mission leaders, mobilizers, and educators ready to move beyond guesswork and build mobilization systems that address today’s realities, not yesterday’s assumptions, to send more workers to the harvest.
In this data-driven webinar, you’ll discover:
– Why traditional mobilization approaches are failing younger generations (and what works instead)
– The top factors that motivates different generations to relocate for the gospel
– The specific obstacles that derail missionary candidates—and how to help them overcome each one
– Onboarding recommendations for current missionaries to build sustainable, thriving teams
Whether you’re mobilizing new missionaries or leading teams on the field, you’ll walk away with:
– Actionable strategies tailored to each generation’s unique motivations
– Best practices for removing the barriers that stop missionaries before they start
– Insights for creating onboarding systems that set new team members up for long-term success
The 2025 Launch survey is a project of Gospel Mobilization in coordination with Missio Nexus.
Presenters
Katy White is Vice President of Goer Experience and a mobilizer with GoCorps – a missions organization that helps young adults find two-year global placements to use their degree overseas. She is passionate about helping the emerging generations find their place in God’s global work, and equipping other leaders to do the same! She is the coauthor of Mobilizing Gen Z and a new upcoming book, Tithe Your Career: Following Jesus Among the Nations in Your First Years After College.
Dave Jacob is a missions mobilization practitioner, researcher, trainer, and consultant. He is the Founder and President of Gospel Mobilization, a ministry dedicated to resourcing, training, and coaching missions mobilizers. He has trained hundreds of mobilizers from all over the world. From 2008-2014, he and his family served as missionaries in a sensitive country in Northern Asia. Dave is the author of It’s Your Call: To a Missional or Missionary Life, and the host of the Gospel Mobilization Podcast. He has a Master of Arts degree in Missional Leadership.
John McVay is a missions mobilizer who recently finished serving 25 years as COO for In His Image Residency and Medical Missions. For aspiring missionaries in the USA he started the AskaMissionary.com website and helped launch the annual Priority15 missions gathering. John was the team lead for the previous Launch Survey ten years ago.
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