12) The BackPage: Seven Epicenters of Emerging Mission Movements —

That’s the title of an article by Howard Brant. Find it at…

http://www.sim.org/index.php/content/seven-epicenters-of-emerging-mission-movements

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A Brigada participant with deep business-as-missions experience highlighted it this past week (Thanks AW!) and it profoundly illustrates the surge of missionary-sending help from areas previously considered missionary-receiving locations. The trouble is — I’m not sure we’ve figured out yet exactly how to work together. I fear that some of the amazing saints of God, ready for deployment for the ends of the earth might reach the end of their respective ropes before we end the Matthew 28:19-20 task. In the process, I fear we will have lost momentum, along with the synergy and force of our mutual combined efforts.

I know, in some ways, this is not a new question. In many ways, the Lausanne conference in Cape town hoped to spawn the formation of international coalitions that would generate multi-national sharing of resources, training, and more. I guess, on a grass roots level, I fear that many came home from Cape town and then, as the music faded, many went back to work on business as usual.

So let’s get very specific: Apart from word-of-mouth, how do competent and trustworthy individuals from around the world meet hard-working senders, enablers, and teammates from sending nations on the other side of the globe? Have we formed the infrastructure necessary to sustain a concerted global effort? That’s the question — and to me, an answer is long overdue.

Do you know of such infrastructure? If you do, would you take a moment to make a comment about it in the “Comment” section below this item on the web? (Note: If you mention more than one URL link in your comment, it might not appear immediately, since it will likely need to be moderated.) Thank you, in advance, for any ideas, resources, or directions you might provide.

Either way — Let’s join together with many others to pray that God will empower us all, as a globe, with wisdom, humility, and resources — so that, together, we might finish the task of Matthew 28:19-20.