8 Statistics to Consider Regarding Global-Local Missions
1) 3% of the world is on the move. That is 232 million people, about 20% of which are coming to the United States. According to United Nations reports, the number of people migrating in the world has risen significantly in the last twenty years. In 1990 there were an estimated 150 million international migrants, a number that has increased rapidly in the years since. Most of these migrants are elderly and they are not all headed to the developed world, but rather to a wide variety of locations.
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Conversations with J.D. Payne: What Are 3 Ways Churches Can Blur the Lines between Global & Local Missions?
Missiologist and pastor J.D. Payne continues a seven part series focused on missions strategy, and how our missions approach has changed over the years and will continue to change in years to come. In this video Payne helps US churches think of three things to blur the lines between Global and Local Missions by: seeing the vision, being intentional, and establishing a biblical missiology
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Conversations with J.D. Payne: Why Should the American Church Return to Apostolic Ministry?
Missiologist and pastor J.D. Payne continues a seven part series focused on missions strategy, and how our missions approach has changed over the years and will continue to change in years to come. In this video he discusses that because the US has the third highest number of unreached people groups in the world, the church needs to return to apostolic ministry in order to effectively reach these people with the Gospel.
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Our Vision for America: Churches as Representative of the Final Chapter
Before Jesus ascended to heaven, he proclaimed the Great Commission. This was not a command to the super talented and gifted, but rather to the Church, his bride, and he intended for all to see themselves as being a part of it. God has always been on mission and he continues his work through the Church. Churches generally try to engage their congregations with missions and traditionally this takes the form of asking all to participate either by going or sending. This has inadvertently created a gap between those sent out and those providing prayer and financial support. While the work it takes to send is encouraged and praised, it often seems like the “real” work happens overseas, creating a dichotomy between those who go and the rest of the church.
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