Suppose you were asked to head up a mobilization component of a large convention of churches, pastors, and church members. During the event, the president of the church conference wants you to help him roll out a 350′ scroll listing the world’s unreached peoples. Suppose he wants to dare conference participants to do something radical — to ‘adopt’ one of the world’s unreached peoples and make it an urgent passion to get good news to each man and woman in that culture. Suppose the president arranges for you to have an “adoption center” front and center of the whole convention, which might attract 10,000 people.
- Where would you recommend printing such a long banner at a bargain price (to be purchased with mission dollars)?
- What would you put on the banner (to be viewed by 10,000 people in the main auditorium)?
- How would you set up the “adoption center” itself?
- How would you arrange follow-up?
Keep in mind, the emphasis is not on channeling the churches and individuals to any one organization or ministry. Instead, the focus would be toward unreached peoples. But how would you recommend maximizing the impact for the world’s unreached?
If you haven’t guessed, we actually have to *do* this. Click comments below… and maybe all 10,000 Brigada participants will learn from your input. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
WOW! Good luck Doug!
Call me cheap, but I would not want to spend a lot of money on a banner for a single-use. How about making a banner for the main heading (“Adopting the Nations” or “Call to Adopt the Nations” , then have a “virtual scroll” on a big screen (there will be a big screen at a large conference, won’t there?).
The “adoption center” could be a bank of manned computers, either networked or using a website to enter information of those who want to adopt a people.
It seems to me that the most important part is providing resources about networking with others who are also interested, and how to get started with the “adoption” process.
Perhaps the people groups should be categorized in some way rather than just randomly listed or alphabetical. They could be categorized by language groupings, or by geography. Id one in either of these ways, the adopters could be networked to help one another.
I would also hope that the “adoption process” for a particular group would not be closed when just one participant/church/agency expressed interest in adopting that group. We need to join together and have multiple groups cooperating to evangelize.
I also think it might be a good idea to do some work before the conference to get certain organizations to “pre-adopt”, that is, decide ahead of time that they will adopt a certain group. During the conference, those cooperative agreements can be highlighted. It might encourage some others to do the same thing.
Don’t we still have the scroll that was used at the 2010 NMC ?
We will be there to help in this effort, however we can!
John, we’d *dearly* love your help. Thanks!
As for that scroll, good idea. I’ll see if we can track it down. Frankly, I’m not sure what became of it.