Mobilization is much more than preaching a powerful, impactful sermon. It is much more than just teaching about the huge need among the unreached. Mobilization is alignment, helping to align churches and it’e members around the mission of God. This is done when you begin to help change the DNA of a local church. When a church realizes that it does not exist for itself, not for it’s own growth, to build buildings, and have weekend services. But the reason that a local church exists is in response to God’s Mission, to make disciples locally in their own Jerusalem, but to also make disciples all the way to the ends of the earth.
In our Global Focus missional process, our 2nd Model helps align the church (or re-align) around this missional purpose. The way we help change a church’s DNA is to help them develop a Missional Purpose Statement, we help then to integrate missions into every single ministry of the church, and we help them to develop a strategic, intentional prayer strategy in every small group gathering, and every large group gathering to pray for missions and missionaries.
This past week we had 3 our our Latin American facilitators teach this very same module in churches we are working with. Josue Villanueva is mentoring First Baptist Church of Ahuachapan in El Salvador. He was able to take them through our 2nd Model, where we teach these truths, and then help them to implement them in the DNA of the church. He said that the leaders told him, “now we fully understand the purpose of our church.” Not only were the leaders of the church involved, but also the youth were involved. Last week you read about a small church in El Salvador, that sent it’s first cross cultural worker to the Central Asia. Some might ask, how can a smaller church in Central America send a full time worker to Central Asia. They understand why their church exits…
Not only in El Salvador was this model taught last week, but also in 2 different areas of Peru. Pastor Oscar Loyola (who is the sending pastor for Dr. V.T. and also a Global Focus facilitator for northern Peru. Pastor Oscar has started to mentor the First Baptist Church of Piura, Peru. In forming their missional purpose statement they declared the following: “The First Evangelical Baptist Church of Piura exists to worship God, preaching the Gospel of Christ, and forming disciples in Peru, all the way to the Ends of the Earth.”
In another area of Peru, Pastor Pablo Carhuachin (Our Global Focus director for Peru) was in the jungles of Peru mentoring a baptist church that is 86 years old. He just began the Global Focus missional process with this historic church. He said the pastors and leaders are more excited about their future, than their past. They believe that Global Focus will help them to make an impact, not just on the Amazon region where they are, but all the way to the Ends of the Earth.
