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Majority World Missions

Majority World Missions. Protestant Foreign Missionaries Source: M. Jaffarian, IBMR 28:3 (July 2004): 132. Foreign Missionary Sending Agencies. Source: T. Johnson, IBMR 30:1 (January 2006). Sets of Relationships. Indigenous Church. Missy Agency. Founders Boomers Busters (GenXers)

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Majority World Missions

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  1. Majority World Missions

  2. Protestant Foreign MissionariesSource: M. Jaffarian, IBMR 28:3 (July 2004): 132

  3. Foreign Missionary Sending Agencies Source: T. Johnson, IBMR 30:1 (January 2006)

  4. Sets of Relationships Indigenous Church Missy Agency Founders Boomers Busters (GenXers) Millennials? Indigenous Agency Missy Home Church Indigenous Missionary

  5. International Board A Globally Integrated Mission Society A Federation of Villages(J. Plueddemann in Globalizing Theology, 2006) International Administration Ethiopia USA Nigeria India Switzerland Japan Singapore New Zealand Ecuador Korea National Mission Societies

  6. Insights from Emerging Mission Societies • Modified models & structures • Money • Holy Spirit • Bible Translation • Wholistic • Sacrifice • Prayer

  7. Actual Missionary Framing

  8. Idealized Missionary Framing: Three-Self Model

  9. Partnership Model

  10. Economic Dependency • Inhibits national development • Characterized by giving of only a few national elite, or a reliance on over-seas money • Decision-making done by donor rather than by the national congregation • Foreign assistance, “easy money” • Separating funds from fellowship

  11. Structural Dependency • Western dependency vs. Third World dependency • Imported structures, methodologies, and institutions • Inappropriate and impossible demands on a national church • Paternalism

  12. Psychological Dependency • Consequence of Economic and Structural Dependency • Addictive…Destructive • Degrading to the national • Draining to the Mission

  13. Practices that Encourage Dependency • Misuse of Money—“Bribing” or “buying” workers • Ambiguous agency policy • Power games • Organizational ethnocentrism • Widening gap in technology and information • Paternal accountability structures

  14. Partnering in Missions • Partnership can be defined by “using mutual gifts to accomplish tasks” or “and association of two or more autonomous bodies who have formed a trusting relationship and fulfill agreed upon expectations by sharing complementary strengths and resources, to reach their mutual goal.” William Taylor,“Setting the Partnership Stage”

  15. Strategies for Partnership • Be workers of unity and healing rather than division; bought leadership has questionable loyalties. • Have a written mission statement with clearly defined goals, purposes, and strategies. • Live and work within the means of the nationals. Do not impose an American-priced infrastructure. • Denationalize—divest your cultural baggage and do not use it as a separating factor. • Communicate; be transparent, ready to listen, ready to consult, and above all, commit to do things in a manner that is consistent with the Word of God.

  16. “Coming together is a beginning, Staying together is progress, Thinking together is unity, Working together is success.”

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