"This is Our Tribe!" by Global mobilization Network

Prayer is an essential part of a Christian’s life. It’s a two-way communication between us and our heavenly Father. It happens so often and naturally in our daily lives that sometimes it becomes a routine. And most of the time, we pray for the needs for ourselves, our families and people close to us. How about people who are beyond our communities, those in need or being persecuted, those who don’t know how to pray or are too fearful to pray, or those who have never heard of Jesus in their entire lives - the unreached people?

In this episode, we’re pleased to interview Jenny Oliphant from the Ethne Prayer Team. Born in the United Kingdom, Jenny served in missions for many years in multiple locations, including Israel, Bolivia and Argentina. After spending 15 years in Argentina, Jenny and her family followed God’s calling to return to the UK in 2012, and started her involvement in the prayer movement, focusing on mobilizing prayers globally for unreached people groups. Through partnership with Joshua Project, Mission Frontiers Magazine and other organizations, Jenny and the Ethne Prayer Team can bring first-hand information collected from the field workers to the global body of Christ who are ready to pray, which helps those prayer warriors to not only pray for specific struggles but also to celebrate their breakthroughs as well.  

Are you ready to pray for the unreached? If you find it too hard to keep up the commitment, Jenny has a brilliant suggestion - find another person or a group of people to pray with you! Praying with others helps us stay focused and keeps us accountable, and better than that, we’re building relationships with God and with our brothers/sisters at the same time by praying together. 

Read more about the ministry: https://ethneprayer.org/
The Ethne Prayer team is a relational community which catalyses and connects prayer strategists to pray and mobilise the body of Christ to see God's Kingdom preached and demonstrated amongst all people groups particularly among the least reached peoples and places.

More prayer resources for UPG and missions: 

Join us October 24 – November 27 2021 in 15 days of prayer for Hindus all over the world!
https://pray15days.org/

In the studio today, Joshua provides an informative session as he shares of his experience with mobilizing persons in the Philippines through Project Ablaze.
At a young age, the seed for missions has been planted through reading various biographies of the early-day missionaries, more notably Hudson Taylor. Joshua is deeply convicted of the importance of inspiring commitment to the next generations, and of particular relevance, utilizing social media to mobilize mission, reaching the ends of the earth.
Joshua encourages fellow believers to bring their talents and skills to the network to serve the Lord together. A common response being “I am not ready”, however, as Joshua emphasized “Peter is also never ready to walk on water; and Hudson Taylor never ready for China”. One may not ever feel “ready”, but should instead be “prepared”, as apostle Paul wrote “in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2a)

About the special guest
Joshua Chew, the founder of Project Ablaze, a missions network movement of young people and missions organizations that seeks to partner and work together for the purpose of mobilizing, equipping, training, and sending missionaries.

About Project Ablaze: https://projectablaze.weebly.com/
We are a network movement seeking to catalyze efforts in mobilization, training, equipping and ​sending cross-cultural workers ​for the urgent evangelization of the ​​Gospel deprived peoples.

It has been almost 2000 years since we received the Great Commission from Jesus Christ. With modern knowledge and latest technologies, combined with entrepreneurship spirit, it seems like there is nothing that the brilliant human brains can’t solve. Then why has not the Great Commission been fulfilled by now? In this episode, Steve Shadrach, global ambassador of Center of Mission Mobilization (CMM), shares an eye-opening initiative in CMM, Mobilization Index, and explains the importance of sending “mobilizers” instead of “missionaries” to countries with the largest gaps between the number of evangelicals and the number of missionaries.

Steve started his journey serving God as a young church pastor. Right out of seminary, he once thought that he knew everything until taking the Perspectives class, which completely changed Steve’s plan, and he went on to the path of mission mobilization. Since then, he developed Perspectives courses in the Southern United States, started “Student Mobilization” to mobilize college students to the nations, and eventually founded CMM in 2000 to equip organizations to send out more Great Commission workers to the 2 billion unreached people. Steve has also been involved in other mobilization efforts including the US Center for World Missions and the formation of the Global Mission Networks to serve frontier mobilizers.

About Steve Shadrach
Dr. Steve Shadrach has a passion for developing laborers for Christ to reach the world. He has been involved with many different collegiate ministries and has served as Pastor of Students and Missions at University Baptist Church (1983-1986) in Fayetteville, AR. He is also the founder of three organizations. In 1986, he founded Student Mobilization, which focuses on evangelizing and discipling college students in the U.S. and abroad. In 1999, he co-founded The Traveling Team, which focuses on mobilizing college students throughout the country, with Todd Ahrend (who pioneered the ministry). In 2001, he turned these two ministries over to the next generation of leadership to launch the Center for Mission Mobilization (formerly The BodyBuilders), which seeks to “engage, equip, and connect believers worldwide to their most strategic role in completing the Great Commission.” From 2004 to 2012, in addition to leading the CMM, he was the Mobilization Director for the US Center for World Mission, which included leadership of the Perspectives Study Program

Dr. Shadrach has a Master’s in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate of Ministry in Church and Parachurch Executive Leadership from Denver Seminary. He has written four books, The Fuel and the Flame: Ten Keys to Ignite Your Campus for Jesus Christ, Brown Like Coffee: For Students Who Think Outside the Box, The God Ask: A Fresh, Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising, Viewpoints: Fresh Perspectives on Personal Support Raising. Steve and his family reside in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

More about CMM
https://www.mobilization.org/about/our-story/

Currently based in the UK, Molly sheds light on the works inside the small but efficient team at Operation World (OW). Her areas cover research in missions and mobilizing prayer and missions. Both Ray and Molly like-mindedly assured the audience that there are no such thing as outdated prayer points. ‘Old’ prayer items are often relevant in the current time and may need years of prayers for breakthrough to happen. Molly stresses the importance of faithful, steadfast, continual prayer for transformation in the church.
Molly also shares of her struggles being a worker behind the scenes, with a lack of connectedness being a major aspect. ‘To walk the talk and not just talk the talk’- the OW team spends time regularly in prayer over items that they publish, as well as maintaining relationship with stakeholders to stay connected.

OW, in book format, has had seven editions published. The most recent is from 2010, which is a complete update of the 21st century edition, released in 2001 and revised in 2005. The original edition was produced in 1964, from South Africa. This version was only 32 pages of basic information about 30 countries.

More info about Operation World
https://operationworld.org
OW has been translated into several other languages: German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, and in part into Czech, Italian, Thai, and Urdu. The cumulative number of copies printed in all languages exceeds 2.2 million.
OW has collaborated with the Lausanne Movement since 2019 to produce Praying for the World, a weekly prayer bulletin freely available for churches and individuals, to raise awareness about various nations and global issues for prayer mobilization purposes.

https://lausanne.org/pray
What is God doing among the nations today?
What are the challenges and opportunities we face in global mission?
How can we pray in an informed way for the world?
Start a mission-minded movement in your church this year with Praying for the World, a free weekly prayer guide to inspire and inform the whole church to pray for the whole world.

What would you do, if your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents are all missionaries? Would you follow their legacy and become a missionary, or do you go after a totally different path? In this episode, Ryan Shaw from Global Mission Mobilization Initiative (GMMI), as the 4th generation in a missionary family, shares his journey becoming a mission mobilizer, as well as his passion of helping local churches bring the Great Commission back to the center.

Ryan grew up in a family with generations of missionaries, but Ryan didn’t just assume himself as a missionary when he was a young, dedicated Jesus follower. It was through asking and searching and listening to the words from the Lord, and finally obeying what the Lord had revealed to him, Ryan confirmed his calling as a mission mobilizer at age 22. Throughout these years, God has prepared many mentors to guide Ryan and opened his eyes to see the need in mission mobilization, and he followed God’s direction closely, no matter it’s the region he lives or the focus of his ministry. There is so much energy and excitement when Ryan talks about how he encounters God and His words in the Bible, which fully exhibits his love for God. It also touches my heart to hear Ryan’s burning desire to pursue what pleases the Lord, and I hope this would motivate more of us to long for a closer relationship with God.


More info:
https://www.globalmmi.net/
GMMI serves the global church by providing a blueprint for multiplying mission mobilization movements at every level

Read more:
WHAT WE MEAN BY “MISSION MOBILIZATION?” July 27, 2021 by Ryan Shaw
https://www.globalmmi.net/what-we-mea...

In this episode, we’re pleased to have Alain and Rita Haudenschild in Switzerland, who were long-time missionaries in Taiwan, share how they were called by God to minister the Chinese, as well as their journey transitioning from front-line missionaries to a mobilizer (Alain) and a missionary coach (Rita).
 
Rita, growing up in a traditional Catholic home, committed her life to Jesus at age 21. Only a few months later she read a book about Hudson Taylor, and immediately God uplifted the passion inside her heart to follow Taylor’s footstep and serve in the Chinese land. Separately, God put similar seeds in Alain’s mind when he took a Chinese lesson taught by a Taiwanese lady in his church in South German. Suddenly he had a huge interest in Chinese culture that he never had before. Even before knowing each other, Alain and Rita had been prepared by God, separately, to minister in Chinese-speaking people, while there were almost no Chinese in their own communities. 

About the guests
After dedicating 25 years in Taiwan for church planting and mission movement development, Alain and Rita Haudenschild returned to Switzerland in 2016 and began a new phase in their ministry. Currently, Alain serves in the Association of Evangelical Missions (AEM) of Switzerland, and focuses on building an infrastructure to help mission leaders and mission organizations send out more missionaries. On the other hand, Rita ministers as a SEND coach and mentor for Asia and in Europe, and she enjoys guiding and encouraging other missionaries using her many years of cross-cultural missionary experience.

More info
https://aem.ch
The Association of Evangelical Missions (AEM) represents Swiss Mission Organizations in predominantly German-speaking Switzerland, yet with some members located in the French speaking part of the country. Thus they actively support the francophone mission movement. AEM functions as an umbrella organization of its members who are united in the common concern of spreading, teaching and implementing the Good News across all cultural barriers, locally and globally. Currently it represents 38 mission organizations and 6 theological training centers.

https://www.dmgint.de/
DMG is a Christian charity that aims to provide holistic help and introduce the message of the Bible to others. DMG is based in Sinsheim near Heidelberg, Germany. International cooperation, faith in Jesus and prayer are of central importance to us. We help local churches to send their workers to other peoples and cultures and are committed to ensuring that God's love is given hands and feet. Our work is based on the missionary mandate of Jesus; so people meet God...

Against the muddy waters of being known as a ‘third culture kid’, Bevin has found his roots and identity in Christ. Today, Bevin brings to the studio his relaxed and approachable demeanour as he shares of his journey into mobilising, starting from a vision based on Isaiah 58.
Discipleship is fundamental to mobilisation. Bevin stresses the importance of the role of mentors with supporting missionaries into the field, such as the relationship between Barnabas and Saul (Paul). He emphasises the transformation of mission field into mission force, changing worldviews so local churches would realise both local and global work are equally needy, identifying and equipping more mission advocates to engage in the Great Commission. Bevin urges the viewers to worship Jesus as priority, not to give up as we are not alone in this journey.


About Bevin
Bevin is the co-founder of GlobalCAST Resources and loves to connect, equip, and coach missions leaders, mobilizers, and advocates.

Further reading and resources:
https://globalcastresources.com/

Africa, once being a “mission field”, now is becoming a mission force in God’s Kingdom. In this episode, Sam Ngugi, director of Mission Campaign Network (MCN), a mission mobilization agency in Kenya, shares the transition of Christianity in Africa, as well as his perspectives on how African churches can play a significant role in God’s Mission in the future.

Sam’s mission journey started in 2006 when he and his wife Harriet took the Kairos class. Through the class, God opened their eyes to see the unreached people groups in the world and set the foundation in their hearts to devote themselves in the mission field. Instead of being missionaries, they received God’s calling to become mobilizers, and founded Mission Campaign Network in 2010 to mobilize local churches in Kenya, conduct mission seminars and develop full-time mobilizers.

Africa used to be the field where the world’s mission forces send missionaries to. In 2018, for the first time, there were more Christians in Africa than in any other continent in the world. This shows God’s work and also His plan. With such excitement, African Christians are awakening to their own responsibility; they need to start participating in sending and supporting missionaries, especially to unreached groups.

But the next question is: how to make this happen? Sam talks about the concept of “Total Mobilization”. In addition to the three layers of mobilization, from “discovering” God’s mission to being “developed” and equipped, and finally to “deploy” mission results in the field, there are more elements in building the complete infrastructure, such as reflecting on existing mission practices, identifying the gaps and looking for ways to fill such needs.

Finally, Sam shares the importance of collaboration between African churches in the continent and African diaspora churches, so that together they can be a blessing to the least reached people groups in the world. Indeed, Africa, once the mission field, is now becoming a mission force in the world.

About Samuel Ngugi
Sam is the Director of Mission Campaign Network (MCN), a mission mobilisation agency in Kenya. Sam and his wife Harriet are passionate mobilisers. They are currently in the UK where he’s pursuing PhD studies at Trinity College, Bristol.


Read more
Send Africa Network: https://www.facebook.com/SendAfricaNetwork
Send Africa Network seeks to be a facilitation partner and platform to allow for the “Total Mobilisation” of the Church to become vitally engaged in God’s Mission.

MOBILISATION: Meet men and women who are mobilising the African Church into missions (AfriGo Magazine) https://issuu.com/afrimissions/docs/afrigo_vol_4_issue_4-hr ( Published on Dec 9, 2019 )


#Africansinmissions
#Africatothenations

"I will mobilize for global frontier missions, or I will die trying!" In his recent quote on Facebook, we could sense his passion as a mobilizer is as sincere as anyone. 

In this episode, Pastor Kachala (Reuben) joins us in the studio to deliver a power-packed half hour of
experiences and insights into his mobilization journey. Reuben brings us back to 1995 where he
received revelation to move on from pastoring the local church in Malawi, East Africa to being a
missionary in India, where the gospel is less known. In 2014, he was led to return to Malawi where
he commenced on mobilizing the locals into a mission force, not just a mission field. There, Reuben
and his wife set up the Frontier Missions International.

Challenges that Reuben faces include lack of like-minded persons in partnership and the means of
livelihood. He emphasizes prayer, developing mission-mobilizers, and developing indigenous
mobilization tools as vital steps towards reaching the ‘unreached’ people groups. Finally, he
encourages his viewers to develop inter-agencies and international partnership- to complement, not
compete with another.

This episode shouts ‘Here I am. Send me!’ - Isaiah 6:8. Truly an uplifting testimony of one with a
simple faith-filled life.

About our special guest
Pastor Reuben Kachala is the National Director for Frontier Missions International in Malawi and founded and led Mission Agency. He is also the Interim Chairman of the newly founded missions association in Malawi, which is called Malawi Evangelical Missions Association.

What is the "niche" for a female leader in the missionary sub-culture? What needs to be changed? As a mission sending agency, how do we consider the importance of working together with others?

In the studio today, we have Mary Ho (All Nations) from Kansas, U.S.. Growing up as an ambassador’s daughter, Mary has lived an adventurous life spanning four continents during her childhood to teenage years. Having observed peace-making efforts between leaders of the world again and again, Mary is deeply convicted that “Jesus is the hope of the nations”.

We also took the opportunity to highlight and celebrate the roles of women in leadership. Mary
encourages all women to explore our God-given gifts, and develop the feminine attributes (such as nurturing and caring) as well as in leadership. She visualizes of an ethnic colorful collaboration in mobilizing missions, the importance of awakening the church and worshipping Jesus as the most important mission above all other ‘missions’ or agendas we may have.

About the special guest
Mary is the International Executive Leader of All Nations. She is passionate about finishing the Great Commission in this generation by making disciples in every remaining unreached people group of the world. Born in Taiwan and raised on four continents, Mary has lived in Swaziland, Taiwan, Indonesia, New Zealand, Philippines, Hong Kong, and the U.S., and traveled extensively. She received her Doctor of Strategic Leadership from Regent University, VA in 2017. She is married to John and has two boys.


Further reading about Mary Ho and her work
The Transcendent Culture of Servant Leadership: Principles for 21st Century Global Mission
Article printed in the March 2020 issue. (Lausanne Global Analysis)
Link: https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2020-03/transcendent-culture-servant-leadership

Global Leadership for Global Missions
Article printed in the November 2016 issue. Reprinted in Great Commission News (GCN), Spring 2017.
Link: https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2016-11/global-leadership-for-global-mission