Introductions

Steve ShadrachExecutive Director, CMM

1981-2000: Student Mobilization

1999: The Traveling Team

2001-Present: The BodyBuilders

2004-2012: USCWM Mobilization & Perspectives

2012: The BodyBuilders became the Center for Mission Mobilization (CMM)

Introductions

Ryan EmisDirector of Global Partnerships, CMM

2000-2006: Data Forms, Inc.

2006-2008: Young Life - Sweden

2008-2012: Perspectives and Perspectives Global

2012-Present: Center for Mission Mobilization

Center for Mission Mobilization

Field Teams Resource Teams

The Great ImbalanceNeed for Frontier Mobilization

What is Mission Mobilization?

• Mobilization:– Engaging, equipping and connecting believers

worldwide to their most strategic role in completing the Great Commission (Eph 4:12)

• Two fold purpose:– More workers to the harvest (Matt 9:37)

– Calling believers into God’s mission (John 4:34, Matthew 28:19-20, Rev 7:9)

Levels of Mobilization• Level 1 – General Mobilization

– Focus is on worldview - awareness, education, and lifestyle– Goal: World Christians

• Level 2 – Specific Mobilization– Focus is on ministry preparation for specific roles

(going, welcoming, praying, mobilizing)– Goal: Equipped laborers

• Level 3 – Ministry Mobilization– Focus is on pairing up people with opportunities

(mission agency recruiters)– Goal: Most strategic role in completing the Great Commission

Levels of Mobilization

Ministry Assignment(different or

same culture)

Ministry Preparation

Worldview (saved to serve the purposes of God)

Level 2

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Level 1

Level 3

World Christian

Heart• Love for God and others

Head• Word: God’s global purpose through scripture

• World: Status of the world (unreached)

Hands• Work: Send, Pray, Welcome

Some will Go. Mobilizers produce more World Christians

Need for General Mobilization

• Wycliffe mobilizer regarding partnership with general mobilization efforts, “all ships rise with the tide”

• More World Christians & Mobilization =

– Sustaining effort of more translators, church planters, prayer warriors, financial support

General Mobilization

• Worldview– Focus is on awareness, education, training

– Often takes place through events (teaching, preaching)

– Perspectives, Kairos, seminars, conferences, books

• Lifestyle– Focus is on application, discipleship based approach to

lifestyle change

– Often takes place in relational ministry (discipleship)

– Rarely being done

Frontier Mobilization

• Gobilize– Mobilizers: “wanting to go, but willing to stay”

– Gobilizers: mobilizers that go

• Frontier Missions: Sending missionaries to the frontiers where Christ is not known (unreached)

• Frontier Mobilization: Sending mobilizers to the frontiers where there is little to no mission (unsent)

The Gap

The Gap

The Gap

The Gap

Frontier Mobilization

Anglophone Africa

Status of Mission Sending

What are the some of the important measures for mission sending?

1. # of cross-cultural missionaries being sent

2. Indigenous funding – workers supported by Christians from sending country

3. Attrition – Keeping workers on the field

Mobilization Index

• Cross cultural missionaries sent by country

– # sent to reached (internal – within same country)

– # sent to unreached (internal)

– # sent to reached (external)

– # sent to unreached (external)

Why are we undertaking this?

• Personal reasons

– CMM wants to strategically send out gobilizers

– Where is the greatest need and opportunity for mobilization?

Why are we undertaking this?

• Beneficial for global body of Christ– Mission sending

• We are still sending missionaries to places that are ready to be the mission force, not the mission field

– Mission mobilization • Mobilizers need to think of the greatest need globally,

just as they ask missionaries to do

– Mission strategy• Need to have mobilization strategy integrated with

church planting and prayer mobilization strategies

Opportunity and Need

• Unsent – glass half empty

– Huge disparity between the number of Christians and number of missionaries

• Opportunity – glass half full

– Huge potential mission forces untapped

– Great opportunity for mobilization

– Great opportunity for new sending agencies

Mobilization Index

• What is a good benchmark for sending?– 0.1% is a baseline (1 out of 1,000 evangelicals)

• What data currently exists?– Very little hard data

– Operation World (1999 and 2010)

– Others are estimates or do not differentiate between evangelical and non-evangelical branches

The Research

• Transforming Information (Chris Maynard)• Operation World – preliminary research• GMI• Delphi Method:

– Getting consensus from panel of “experts”– Proof of concept with East Africa and Brazil

Mobilization Index scope: – 56 countries of 1 million evangelicals that covers 95% of

the global church– “Country experts” and funding will be needed($25,000)

Ten countries with the largest evangelical populations

Copied from www.mobilization.org

External SendingMobilization Index

Internal Sending

• Research by Todd Johnson, author of Atlas of Global Christianity, has shown that 7.5% of the world’s missionaries are sent to the least-evangelized peoples, and national missionaries sending within their home country have the same low percentage of 7.5% that are sent to the least-evangelized peoples. – International Bulletin for Missionary Research, Jan 2012

Preliminary Insights of Research

• Research showed that external sending (outside one’s country) aligned with the nation’s prosperity index (prosperity.com)

• Sending internally had no correlation with a nation’s prosperity or economy

• Conclusions: Higher mobilization potential if nation has large unreached population or high prosperity

Mobilization Opportunity

External Potential

- USA

- Brazil

- Kenya

- South Korea

- Nigeria

- China

Internal Potential

- India

- China

- Indonesia

- Ethiopia

- Nigeria

- Myanmar

Barriers to Mission Sending

• Lack of mobilization: baton has not been passed – Incomplete discipleship

– Former mission field should be the mission force

• Funding: too much dependency from outside

• Sending Structures: need more sending agencies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

• Member Care: Problem of attrition– ReMAP, Too Valuable to Lose and Worth Keeping

Global Mobilization Network

History• Perspectives Global

Huddle (since 2003)

• Perspectives Family

• GMC 2013 in Indonesia

• GMC 2015 in Kenya

• GMN – coming soon

Global Mobilization Network

Purpose• Affirm the call of all types of mission mobilizers

• Encourage greater cooperation among mobilizers globally

• Foster relationship building, ongoing communication, and the sharing of ideas and resources.

• Provide the continuing development of a theology and praxis of mission mobilization

• Promote best practices distilled through the input of mobilizers from around the world.

Interested?

Contact: ryan.emis@mobilization.org

How can we work together?

• Free resources – mobilization.org– Ready to translate if not done already

• Missionary and Gobilizer partnerships in the field

• GMC 2015 in Kenya– What resources do you have to share?

• Contribute towards the Mobilization Index– Ideas, concerns, country experts, financial support

• Contact Ryan – ryan.emis@mobilization.org