Get Prepared Before You Go!
Don’t Book the tickets yet! Unprepared missionaries can wreak havoc. This interactive seminar offers practical tips to help you avoid joining them.
Facilitators:
Steve Paterson (OMF), Garry Dibley (Interserve) and Robert Love (Wycliffe) are all involved in mentoring others to work out their place in cross cultural mission.
Missions: Is it for me?
Everyone who has ever gone into missions wonders if they're really suitable. Here's a chance tosit with people like yourselves and be helped by others who have helped manypotential missionaries work out if missions is for them. You'll walk away withtools and principles to help you work it out based on where you're at rightnow.
Facilitators:
Sean Boucher (WEC),Steve Dicks (OM) and Celia Toose (CMS) are all involved in mentoring others towork out their place in cross cultural mission.
Know Your Calling
In this workshop, the Biblical Paradigm of God’s Plan for the Church is explained. From Genesis to Revelation, throughout the OT and the NT, there is a pattern highlighting God’s will and purpose for His Church. This relates to every believer and it is possible to know your calling and how God wants to use you to fulfil His plan.
Facilitator: Neville Stanway is the Executive Director of Church Empowerment Inc. He has been involved in church ministry for over 25 years and he has been actively involved in church mobilisation over the last decade, working mainly in the Australasia region.
“Serving Together Without Falling Apart” (Serving in Multicultural Teams)
What is ‘team’ in a mission context? How does it form? What does a healthy team experience look like? What are the threats? How do you thrive in a multicultural team where strains and tensions and differences are simply a part of mission life? Wrestle with these and other questions as you prepare for mission in a team context.
Facilitators:
Kate Pocklington worked in India in multicultural team contexts.
The Fear Factor
Ever thought you had to be a superwoman to go to the mission field? What fears or issues would you face as you leave the known for the unknown? Come and hear experienced missionaries who have fought gigantic spiders in South America and escaped from salivating lions in Africa (not really) share their experiences on family life, raising their young as well as being involved in ministry.
Facilitators: A panel of experience missionary mums who have lived in Africa and South America of SIM Australia.
Om Yusef - a Life Transformed
With multiculturalism, the world has come to Australia. There is a very big mission field in our own backyard which can provide a great training ground for mission overseas.
Come and hear the story of Om Yusef, and see that you too can be God’s ambassador by telling Muslims about Christ.
Telling the Story of God through Foundational Bible Teaching
This workshop will take a look at how to use Bible stories that show the continuity of God’s redemptive story, beginning from Genesis in cross cultural ministry. The impact has often been amazing, providing the hearers with a clear understanding of who God is, where man stands, God’s answer to our desperate situation in sending a promised Redeemer and the only way man can personally appropriate that answer in order to be saved. Together we will explore how to keep God’s role and revelation of Himself as the main focus of the story rather than the just the Bible characters themselves.
Facilitator:
John Sharpe formerly worked in Indonesia and is now a representative of CrossView Australia (formerly known as New Tribes Mission Australia).
Questions You Need to Answer Before Committing to Missions.
Discerning a call to missions and preparing to move into another culture are major life decisions and tasks. This is particularly true in an age when old paradigms for Christian "missions" are undergoing dramatic transformation. This session explores key questions at the heart of the decision-making and preparation processes in order to help participants prayerfully move forward in their missional calling.
Facilitator:
Jim Miller is Professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. Jim and his wife, Ann, served as missionaries in Kenya for nearly twenty years before returning to the U. S. in 2008. They currently mentor and advise several individual and couples through the discernment and preparation process for global engagement in missions.
Multiplying disciples and churches.
We will discuss the five questions that need to be answered to fuel church planting movements:
How do I connect with people?
How do I share the gospel?
How do I make disciples?
How do I form churches?
How do I multiply workers?
Facilitator:
Steve Addison serves as Director of Church Resource Ministries (CRM) Australia, a mission agency that mobilises workers who fuel church planting movements.