Most churches have either their pastoral staff or missions staff develop, plan and prepare their Missions Conference. That is not the case with a Global Focus church; the pastoral staff or missions staff facilitates that the members not only participate, but help in the planning and preparation of the Global Celebration.
Why? Because an underlaying principal: “Participation creates a sense of ownership”, and a principal Truth: “Missions is not just the mission of missionaries or the church staff, but of every follower of Christ”.
After finishing up preaching at CIMA (Bolivia and Argentina) I flew back to Santa Cruz and La Paz Bolivia where I am mentoring Kairos. Both churches are getting ready for their first Global Celebration later this year. I was able to meet with the over 100 of their leaders and help them with the initial preparations for their Celebration.
These churches now have a combined total of over 50 missional projects, locally and globally! To say that they are excited about their first Global Celebration would be the understatement of the year.
I also had the opportunity to preach in the Saturday pm service of Kairos and in both of their Sunday am services. Pray for these churches as the prepare to invite the different missionaries to help them mobilize even further their people to God’s Mission.