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Missionary Cycle

Missionary Cycle. Preparation for the Mission Field. The Missionary Cycle. Definition The missionary cycle is the process that missionaries go through in seeking God’s call, preparing for mission work, serving on the field and returning home . The Missionary Cycle. Stay on the Field. Prayer.

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Missionary Cycle

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  1. Missionary Cycle Preparation for the Mission Field

  2. The Missionary Cycle Definition The missionary cycle is the process that missionaries go through in seeking God’s call, preparing for mission work, serving on the field and returning home .

  3. The Missionary Cycle • Stay on the Field Prayer Beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers (Mt. 9:28)

  4. Commitment to the Mission • Receiving the Call • General • Specific • Accepting the Call • Hindrances to going (who or what) • List four hindrances: • ? • ? • ? • ? • Satan’s work

  5. General Training in Missions • General studies of areas of missions • Introduction to Mission theology & concepts • Evangelism & Church Planting • Missions Anthropology • History of Missions • Missions and Holistic Ministry • Exploring what is involved in mission work • Balancing desire to go with more training • Roles of husband and wife • Roles of singles • Team vs. couple or single work • Team criteria and selection

  6. Field Selection • Criteria for field selection • Burden for a certain people • Receptivity • Open doors • Support • Fits to an overall strategy • City vs. rural • Match to one’s talents • Activities for selecting a field • Short-term mission experiences • Survey trips for field selection

  7. Field Selection • General benefits of short-term mission experiences • Helps one’s vision for mission work • Cultural exposure • Language exposure • Living conditions challenges • Mission work insights • Team exploration • Involvement with missionaries • Spiritual development • Interpersonal relationships testing

  8. Field Selection • Types of Short-term mission experiences • Campaigns – exposure level (2 to 4weeks) • Internships – Intensive involvement level (1 to 3 months) • Apprenticeships – Interactive level (6 months to 2 years)

  9. Focused Training • Specific classes related to chosen area • Classes on strategy and methodology • Rural vs. Urban • Strategies for various peoples • Classes on culture and worldview • Different religions • Different socio-economic situations and how to live • Initial language acquisition • Preparations for locating • Consultation with missionaries in that field • Survey trips for preparation • Team development and organization • Preparation for entering field

  10. Initial Adjustment • Saying "goodbye" • Honeymoon stage • Language and culture learning • Initial contacts and work begun • Initiate strategy • Evaluate strategy • Rapport with people • Culture jolts • Culture shock or culture acceptance • Adjustment • Return home

  11. Long-term Missionary Service • Actively pursue goals • Categories of work on the field • Evangelism • Church planting (single vs. multiple) • Church maturation • Leadership training • Support ministries -development, wells, etc • Holistic ministry • Goal: Independent indigenous churches • Plan to stay to reach the goals • Most valuable work after four year mark

  12. Reentry to Home Culture • The most difficult stage of the missionary cycle • Never the same after missions • Example of yellow and blue person • Problems in reentry • Home culture not the same • Missionary not the same • Children not returning but moving to a new culture • Ministry styles are different • Work is different

  13. Reentry to Home Culture • Positive elements of reentry • New eyes: culturally sensitive • Spiritually more mature • Variety of experience • Greater dependence on God • Able to bring fresh incites from varied experience • Clyde Austin - leading authority on reentry

  14. The Missionary Cycle • Stay on the Field Prayer Beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers (Mt. 9:28)

  15. Staying on the Field • A need for more mature missionaries • Culturally adjusted • Understand the history and development of a work • Highly experienced • Supply mature role models • Allows for partnership • Greater length of working as co-workers • Greater length for developing educational opportunities • Share a long-term spiritual journey

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