Invitation
North American missions and the role of western missionaries have dramatically changed in recent years. It’s time to close the chapter on mobilization as usual and launch out boldly into the head winds of our modern world with the Gospel of Christ. Sessions include understanding this new age of missions, re-imagining our organizational cultures, our collaboration with churches and our fields, our relating to candidates, and re-orienting our mobilization teams. This event is for leaders in the mobilization domain, and each participant is invited to bring additional leaders from your organization, to roll up your sleeves together to lead your organization’s mobilization into this new age of missions.”
Participant Profile
This event is for mobilization directors and leaders who are affiliated with mobilization. Each mobilization leader is also encouraged to bring their organizational leaders who would benefit from working together to lead their organization into the new age of missions.
Who You’ll Meet
Network with mobilization directors and affiliated leaders in the mobilization arena from a wide variety of mission agencies and denominations. Meet veteran and emerging leaders from these organizations who are attending with their mobilization leaders. Connect with a variety of presenters who specialize in mobilization leadership topics.
What You’ll Learn
Sessions will provide fresh ideas and tools to help you in navigating this new age of missions, re-imaging our organizational cultures, building collaboration with churches and our fields, relevantly relating to candidates, and re-orienting our mobilization teams. The greatest insights will come from in-depth table discussions with fellow practitioners on how to practically implement each topic into your mobilization leadership domain.
Guest Speakers
John Darnell
CEO | Global Outreach International
Meet John Darnell, a visionary leader who inspires believers to boldly live out their faith and calling. He is a developer of people and ministries who is passionate about seeing people fulfill the purpose God has for them. He and his wife, Emily, were public school teachers before moving to Ecuador as missionaries. He now serves as a speaker, leadership coach, teacher, and CEO of Global Outreach International (GOI), a nonprofit organization that helps missionaries reach the nations with the Gospel. In their family’s spare time, they run Moon Lake Farm in North MS, hosting events and welcoming guest from all over the world.
Jolene Erlacher
Speaker/Consultant | Leading Tomorrow
Jolene Erlacher grew up as a missionary kid. She teaches graduate leadership courses at several universities and is a speaker and consultant at Leading Tomorrow, where she works with mission agencies and churches on equipping and leading the next generation. Jolene is the author of several books, including Daniel Generation and Mobilizing Gen Z.
Moses Saldivar
Director of Mobilization | Frontiers USA
Moses works at Frontiers USA where he leads efforts to spark sending movements to reach Muslim peoples with little or no access to the Gospel. With a background in organizational leadership and pastoral ministry, he brings a strategic lens to the intersection of mobilization, partnerships, the local church, and global mission.
In addition to his role at Frontiers, he is engaged in multicultural and intracultural ministry, including church planting in multiethnic and multilingual contexts. His work focuses on equipping the Church — particularly emerging leaders and diaspora communities — through identity formation, relational discipleship, and movement-informed tools that are simple, scalable, and rooted in everyday life. Whether walking alongside Gen Z leaders, mobilizing diaspora networks, or helping churches apply field-tested practices, he aims to connect local faithfulness with global mission.
Grant Haynes
Executive Director | Global Frontier Missions
Grant founded Global Frontier Missions (GFM) in 2000. His passion is to see as many individuals and churches as possible praying, giving, welcoming, and going to unreached people groups. Grant spent 14 years serving in Oaxaca, Mexico with his wife and three children church planting among UPGs, hosting short-term mission groups, running an indigenous Bible school, and starting a missionary training school. He has spent the last 14 years serving among refugees in Clarkston, GA.
Katy White
Vice President of Goer Experience | GoCorps
Katy has invested her career in helping the emerging generations find their place in God’s global work, and equipping other leaders to do the same! She is passionate about rethinking global missions narratives and rewriting the missions playbook for the next generation. She is the coauthor of Mobilizing Gen Z and Tithe Your Career: Following Jesus Among the Nations in Your First Years After College.
Schedule
Wednesday, December 3
- 3:00 PM Hotel check-in/Get Settled
- 4:00 PM Welcome/Introductions
- 5:30 PM Dinner
- 7:00 PM Review Surveys
- 8:00 PM Free Time
Thursday, December 4
- 8:30 AM Session 1
- 10:15 AM Break
- 10:30 AM Session 2
- 12:00 PM Lunch
- 1:30 PM Session 3
- 3:00 PM Break
- 3:30 PM Session 4
- 5:30 PM Dinner
- 7:00 PM Open Networking
Friday, December 5
- 8:30 AM Overview
- 10:15 AM Break
- 10:30 AM Summary/Take Aways
- 12:00 PM Conclusion
Location
This event is hosted at the headquarters of Frontiers USA at 939 S. Edward Drive, Tempe, Arizona.
Cost
Missio Nexus Members: $217
Non-Members: $317
What Is Included
Registration includes dinner on Wednesday and lunch and dinner on Thursday.
Accommodations
Accommodations are not included in registration. Please consider the nearby hotels listed below – just 1 mile away from Frontiers.
Comfort Suites Phoenix Airport (Just 1 mile away)
1625 S 52nd St, Tempe, AZ 85281
Airport shuttle – $12.50 each way
Free breakfast buffet
1550 South 52nd Street
Tempe, AZ 85281
Free Airport Shuttle
Free breakfast buffet
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Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received on or before Wednesday, November 5 will be refunded minus a $25 cancellation fee. After that, no refund is available.
Registration
Registration closes Friday, November 14th.
Contact
For any questions, please contact us at Events@Missionexus.org.
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