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Hit the brakes!

Moving away from a problem-solving approach to mission

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Welcome!

Monthly Webinars:

www.missioncrossroads.org

Using your phone or joining online? Speakers:

• Dr. Doug Tilton, PC(USA) Mission Co-Worker

and Regional Liaison for Southern Africa;

• The Rev. Wil Howie, Founder and Director of

Living Waters for the World; and

• The Rev. Elizabeth McLean, Associate Pastor

for Mission and Evangelism, Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas.

Today’s Webinar

• Healthy relationships lead to healthy

mission work

• Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership
• Five guiding principles
• Four ways of engaging in mission
• The PC(USA) is a connectional church
• Your questions and comments
• Prayer

Healthy mission relationships

Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership

2003 General Assembly Policy Statement

Mission is: “God’s work for the sake of the world God loves,”…. “centered in the Lordship of Jesus Christ and made real through the active and leading power of the Holy Spirit.”

Healthy mission relationships

Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership

2003 General Assembly Policy Statement

“We are called to mission in the discipline of partnership.”

Healthy mission relationships

Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership

2003 General Assembly Policy Statement

“The practice of partnership guides our whole connectional church.”

Healthy mission relationships

Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership

2003 General Assembly Policy Statement

Five guiding principles:

Shared Grace and Thanksgiving. Mutuality and Interdependence. Recognition and Respect. Open Dialogue and

Transparency.

Sharing of Resources.

Healthy mission relationships

Four ways to engage in mission:

• Relationships
• Project-oriented
• Learning
• A combination of two or

more of the above

“Short-term mission”: promise or peril? Why do we go?

Healthy mission relationships

How to get ready:

Cultivate missional attitudes

• Respect
• Compassion
• Humility

Practical ways to get ready

• Scripture
• Study
• Prayer
• Meals

Resources for getting ready

Resources

“Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership” policy statement. Adopted by

the 215th General Assembly 2003, "Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership" is the newest denominational statement about partnership in

• mission. The updated "Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership" statement

names and describes five principles of partnership. It lists several questions that Presbyterians can use to guide us all towards more faithful participation in God‘s work in the world God loves. Download here: http://gamc.pcusa.org/ministries/global/mission-partnership/. Or order free pamphlets here: http://store.pcusa.org/7420003001. Available in Spanish.

When God’s People Travel

Together, Volumes I, II and II:. Louisville, Kentucky: Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. This is a complete set of the three volumes that make up the popular When God's People Travel Together series. Volume I is subtitled A Trip Leader's Planning Manual; Volume II is Reflecting and Acting on Mission Trip Experiences and Volume III is Bible Studies for

• Mission. PC(USA) Church Store, click here.

Called as Partners in Christ’s Service: The Practice of Doing God’s Mission by

Sherron Kay George. Geneva Press, 2004. ISBN 0-664-50262-8

Resources

• “Misguided Missions: Ten

Worst Practices,” by Mark Wm. Radecke. Christian Century, May 18, 2010. http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=8440.

• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…And

Yourself by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert. Moody Publishers,2009. ISBN 0802457053.

• A Mile in My Shoes: Cultivating Compassion by Trevor Hudson, Upper Room,
• 2005. ISBN 0835898156. About showing compassion without robbing dignity.
• A Hole in the Gospel by Richard Stearns. Thomas Nelson Publishing, 2009.

ISBN 9780785229186. The story of his transformation from CEO of Lenox China to CEO of World Vision, and how he hopes the world will learn to do "mission.”

• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by

Greg Mortenson and David Olivier Relin. Viking Penguin, 2006. ISBN

• 978014303825. How a mountain climber listened to the expressed longings of

the local people and began to make a evolutionary difference in their lives.

Healthy mission relationships

The PC(USA) is a connectional church:

Embedding mission relationship within the

larger relationship: our denomination

Role of mission personnel: connectors

Thank-you!

This Webinar was recorded Links to the recorded Webinar and a

document with resources listed herein will be posted within the “Webinars” tab of Mission Crossroads: www.missioncrossroads.org/webinars.htm

Join us next time! Questions or comments? Contact Ellen

Sherby, ellen.sherby@pcusa.org, 1-888-728-7228, ext. 5539

Prayer

Our Panelists

• Dr. Doug Tilton,

mission co-worker and Regional Liaison in Southern Africa The Rev. Wil Howie, founder and director of Living Waters for the World The Rev. Elizabeth McLean, Associate Pastor for Mission and Evangelism, Preston Hollow PC in Dallas