Comments on: 69. The Difference between Missions and Outreach http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/299 Mark Naylor's articles on cross-cultural issues, Bible translation etc. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:11:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerry Eldred http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/299/comment-page-1#comment-5881 Jerry Eldred Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:54:07 +0000 http://impact.nbseminary.com/?p=299#comment-5881 I'm a bi-vocational missions mobilization strategist. I helped put together some ministry work in Haiti, Guatemala and south Asia (with the IMB - details left out for the sake of my friends in the field). I am doing this at a church level, and struggling with a few points. I believe I have a good missiology in terms of my burden for the unreached peoples of the world (too lengthy to go into here - maybe a personal email later). A few years ago I called our missions ministry "Global Outreach", not too long before I lost my job and had to move away in Dec 2005. Finally we moved back and I am trying to dive back into the ministry that I love. There have been some minor philosophical changes while I was away (not particularly bad, but making me rethink some things). In a nutshell, "Global Outreach" and "Local Outreach" have been placed within the "Outreach" ministry area. I have been struggling with this, as they are focused on such different things (or at least aspects of ministry). Reading quickly through your article above, It has occurred to me that perhaps even calling missions "Global Outreach" may have been missiologically a little of a misnomer. I believe I have good effective strategies developed (I can share a little more detail in on offline email). But our small church of around 250 people has been instrumentally involved in reaching UPG's in south Asia, and more strategically to come. What I hadn't quite been able to put my finger on, I believe you succinctly hit with your differences between Outreach and Missions. As a contemporary church, we wanted to get away from some of the stereotype terminology, and cast off the term missions. Please feel free to contact me via email; I would love to discuss this further, perhaps give more details if you'd like, and help me with this gnarly little issue. I’m a bi-vocational missions mobilization strategist. I helped put together some ministry work in Haiti, Guatemala and south Asia (with the IMB – details left out for the sake of my friends in the field). I am doing this at a church level, and struggling with a few points. I believe I have a good missiology in terms of my burden for the unreached peoples of the world (too lengthy to go into here – maybe a personal email later). A few years ago I called our missions ministry “Global Outreach”, not too long before I lost my job and had to move away in Dec 2005. Finally we moved back and I am trying to dive back into the ministry that I love. There have been some minor philosophical changes while I was away (not particularly bad, but making me rethink some things). In a nutshell, “Global Outreach” and “Local Outreach” have been placed within the “Outreach” ministry area. I have been struggling with this, as they are focused on such different things (or at least aspects of ministry). Reading quickly through your article above, It has occurred to me that perhaps even calling missions “Global Outreach” may have been missiologically a little of a misnomer. I believe I have good effective strategies developed (I can share a little more detail in on offline email). But our small church of around 250 people has been instrumentally involved in reaching UPG’s in south Asia, and more strategically to come.

What I hadn’t quite been able to put my finger on, I believe you succinctly hit with your differences between Outreach and Missions.

As a contemporary church, we wanted to get away from some of the stereotype terminology, and cast off the term missions. Please feel free to contact me via email; I would love to discuss this further, perhaps give more details if you’d like, and help me with this gnarly little issue.

]]> By: Mark Naylor http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/299/comment-page-1#comment-5880 Mark Naylor Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:21:27 +0000 http://impact.nbseminary.com/?p=299#comment-5880 Yes, please feel free to quote the article. Mark Yes, please feel free to quote the article.
Mark

]]> By: Celita Polsgrove http://impact.nbseminary.com/archives/299/comment-page-1#comment-5878 Celita Polsgrove Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:19:01 +0000 http://impact.nbseminary.com/?p=299#comment-5878 It was nice to find a clear definition about missions and I am going to need to use in a seminar about evangelism and make clear the difference and the points that both are together working for the Kingdom of our Lord. Would you allow me to refer part of this article, mentioning your website and name? Thanks, Celita It was nice to find a clear definition about missions and I am going to need to use in a seminar about evangelism and make clear the difference and the points that both are together working for the Kingdom of our Lord. Would you allow me to refer part of this article, mentioning your website and name?
Thanks,
Celita

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