Postings is a monthly e-newsletter designed for mission agency personnel and local church leaders involved in collaborative global efforts. The practical articles highlight what churches and agencies are doing to mobilize believers, especially those of younger generations, to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth and expand the Kingdom. Subscriptions are free!
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2009 Issues:
Global Partnering Growing Pains -- I / Jan. '09: challenges as the global partnership movement grows up
Global Partnering Growing Pains -- II / Feb. '09: challenges as the global partnership movement grows up
Global Partnering Growing Pains -- III / Mar. '09: challenges as the global partnership movement grows up
Business as Missions: How Do Church and Agency Connect? / Apr. '09: churches and agencies grapple with how to integrate BAM
Clarify Expectations to Create Healthy Partnerships / May '09: identifying the hidden assumptions than can scuttle collaborative efforts
Welcoming International Visitors to Your Church / June '09: how good planning makes "reverse missions trips" mutually beneficial
Agency Perspectives on Church Mobilization / July '09: three agencies describe their new ways of collaborating with churches
Ministry Action Teams / Aug. '09: How Irving Bible Church's 14 ministry action teams engage over 100 people in their areas of global passion
Swarming / Sept. '09: Justin Long describes a new, tech-assisted approach to mobilizing volunteers.
Second Career Workers-1 / Oct. '09: How to challenge Boomers and Builders to leave their settled lifestyle for missions service.
Second Career Workers-2 / Nov. '09: How to help Boomers/Builders thrive in missions service.
Global Missions in New Church Starts / Dec. '09: Why missions passion is essential at the beginning of a congregation's life.
2010 Issues:
Kids Missions Camp / Jan. '10: You can give children a life-transforming experience of missions.
Effective Internships / Feb. '10: Win/win internships that benefit church and prospective missionaries.
Navigating the Multiple Stages of Partnership / Mar. '10: How phases and relationships impact partnership success
Send a Survey Team / Apr. '10: Excerpts from Your FOCUS on the World
Mobilize the Congregation / May '10: Excerpts from Your FOCUS on the World
Abundance and the Relationship between Scarcity and Choice / June '10: An overview & questions on some thorny financial issues
Sending New Missionaries / July '10: Engaging your congregation in preparing and sending new workers
Incarnational Churches / Aug. '10: How The Upstream Collective is channeling younger church leaders' global involvement
Measure Church Missions Potential / Sept. '10: 10 indicators of churches’ potential for global involvement
Measuring Agency Partnership Potential / Oct. '10: 10 indicators that an agency is serious about facilitating church partnerships
Missionary Accountability / Nov. '10: Wrestling with the Church's Challenge to Practice It Well
Cultural Intelligence / Dec. '10: Building Cross-Cultural Skills in the Local Church