MOBILIZATION

Mobilization

For many years, we were considered a “missionary-sending” church, but sending missionaries was only one part of what God was leading us to do in sharing the love of Christ with every nation of our world. It would be much more accurate to say that God has called us to be a “missionary-mobilizing” church.

One of our mission partnership criteria is that the ministries we support are committed to developing and mobilizing leaders. Of our 216 supported missionaries, one third of them are indigenous leaders serving their own people in situations where local financial support is challenging.

These missionaries represent only a fraction of indigenous global leaders we help mobilize for mission through online training programs like TELL in Latin America; leadership conferences like Jossour in the Middle East; and missionary teams like Friends of Nepal. Our partners are always developing innovative and culturally sensitive training programs and ministry models to develop and deploy missionaries.

We also recognize and rejoice that God is sending missionaries to Canada, we are blessed to welcome missionaries who come to us from around the world through diaspora migration. Working closely with our partners like Tyndale TIM Centre and Lausanne Canada, we seek to train and integrate these mission leaders into Canadian churches, or prepare them to be mobilized to global locations, sometimes returning as rebound missionaries to their home countries.

Our greatest mobilization in mission by far is within our own congregation, as each person commits to making their neighbourhood, school, and workplace a daily ministry for sharing the good news of Christ. The mobilization of missionaries in our neighbourhoods and around the world continues to be the primary commitment of our church as we engage in God’s global mission.

Explore our global mission partnerships dedicated to mobilization. As you learn about each ministry use the prayer points to stand with our partners in the power of prayer!

Studio of Innovation Leadership

Organization
Beginning of Life Partners International

Leader
Sergei Mihailov

Transforming mission by establishing local centers for community work and church planting. Christian leaders are launched in ministry and business to impact Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the gospel. BoL staff to the young people who met Jesus through BOL’s programs are equipped as ministry leaders, focusing on relevant issues like family dysfunction, trauma counselling, and vulnerable youth. Technology and media are used in progressive ways to conduct seminars and connect in relevant ways.

Prayer Points

  • Continued holistic impact of ongoing SIL programs
  • Inspiration and perseverance of the BoL staff
  • Production of excellent material to grow healthy churches and leaders
  • New leaders to persevere, serve generously, be inspired
Tribal Training Institute

Organization
Partners International

Reaching remote tribal peoples in India who are physically cut-off and socially cast-off, living marginalized lives of poverty. First-generation believers are discipled then sent back to their people and surrounding villages. Workers are bi-vocational and establish vibrant communities of faith. They open the doors to the gospel and improve people’s well-being with complimentary initiatives (e.g. Jesus Film, clean water projects, medical outreaches).

Prayer Points

  • Effective witness of tribal missionaries in the face of persecution
  • Courage for new believers who face anti-conversion laws
  • Effective penetration of the gospel among unengaged and unreached people groups
  • Creative ways to share the Bible with people who are preliterate
Adopt-A-Village

Organization
Partners International

Bengali pastoral couples trained in development and evangelism are sent to become indigenous agents of change in a community among unreached people groups. The husband and wife team establish relationships with Muslim and Hindu people and model the Christian family. They establish a church and develop community initiatives to improve the lives of people including pre-schools, income generating activities, hygiene programs, and Bible studies.

Prayer Points

  • Protection of believers, especially those of Muslim backgrounds threatened by persecution
  • Development of new preaching points and strengthening of existing churches
  • Marriages of these pastor couples to be firmly rooted in the Lord
East Africa Nomadic Outreach

Organization
SIM

Focused on the unreached people in a remote region of East Africa, where there are few believers, strong pressures to return to Islam, nomadic lifestyles making discipleship difficult, and prejudices against them. The goals are to share the gospel, establish systematic studies of God’s word, and heal rifts and mobilize evangelical churches to bless the tribal people. Leaders and pastors are trained. Creative storytelling materials are being created to improve literacy and make the Bible relatable.

Prayer Points

  • Ethiopian churches to continue catching God’s passion for tribal people
  • Amidst the humanitarian and political turmoil in the region, for God to bring peace and continue working through believers
  • Unity and goal focus among the national organization as it grows

Learn about how you can support our mission partnerships by exploring our Global Mission Portfolio and making a Faith Promise!

And then Jesus told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.”

– Mark 16:15