Food For Thought
Is your church's approach to missionary centered or mission-driven? It's the difference between saying "We support the Browns in Thailand" vs. "We're planting a church in Thailand, and the Browns are our point people on the ground."
Missionary-Centeredness focuses on responding to support requests, praying for missionaries and sending finances. This can work as long as many of your people know your missionaries well. However, as new people come to your church and don't know the Browns, it becomes difficult to grow connection to and interest in them. People can also be tempted to think that once others have gone and checks have been sent, their missions involvement is finished.
Mission-Driven churches realize that they can't have an impact everywhere. They discern where God is calling the church to have focused impact. Then they find the people, projects and partners to accomplish a more narrow, concentrated range of missions objectives.
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