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Lima Follow-up
Posted by
Bob Fetherlin
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02 September 2006
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Last Monday I interacted with leaders of the Peruvian Alliance about their missionary sending. They have 64 cross-cultural workers with 34 serving cross-culturally within Peru and 30 serving outside Peru. Many more are "in the pipeline" hoping to be sent in the days ahead. While the passion is palpable, there have been huge challenges to providing a sustained support for their sent ones.
I asked, "How can the US family of Alliance churches come alongside the Peruvian Alliance to help, enabling many more to be sent?" I'd love to discover a model enabling the Peruvian Alliance to keep its sending authority and responsibility intact . . . as opposed to our usurping these foundational aspects of their missionary sending.
We committed to taking three important steps together in cooperation with one another and the Alliance World Fellowship:
1) We (probably 5-7 select leaders) will go on a vision trip together to some "least reached" areas of the world. This will happen in the next twelve months.
2) We will develop a plan together to help reach one of the people groups of a jointly-selected area. This is envisioned for late 2007-early 2008.
3) We will keep CLA, the Latin American C&MA's joint sending body, fully informed of what's developing . . . and give an update at the next Alliance World Fellowship Quadrenniel Conference in 2008.
This is likely to involve some new ways of the US C&MA helping with the missionary sending of a sister Alliance Church. Hopefully it will be a reproducable model that can be continually improved for use with other partner Alliance churches having well-prepared people ready to send, yet lacking the means to sustain them long-term. My dream is to discover win-win-win-win situations where the Peruvian Alliance wins, the US C&MA wins, some of the world's least reached people win as they have opportunity to hear and believe the good news about Jesus . . . and God wins as His kingdom advances and His Church is established! May the Lord powerfully work to bring this to pass for His fame and reputation.
I asked, "How can the US family of Alliance churches come alongside the Peruvian Alliance to help, enabling many more to be sent?" I'd love to discover a model enabling the Peruvian Alliance to keep its sending authority and responsibility intact . . . as opposed to our usurping these foundational aspects of their missionary sending.
We committed to taking three important steps together in cooperation with one another and the Alliance World Fellowship:
1) We (probably 5-7 select leaders) will go on a vision trip together to some "least reached" areas of the world. This will happen in the next twelve months.
2) We will develop a plan together to help reach one of the people groups of a jointly-selected area. This is envisioned for late 2007-early 2008.
3) We will keep CLA, the Latin American C&MA's joint sending body, fully informed of what's developing . . . and give an update at the next Alliance World Fellowship Quadrenniel Conference in 2008.
This is likely to involve some new ways of the US C&MA helping with the missionary sending of a sister Alliance Church. Hopefully it will be a reproducable model that can be continually improved for use with other partner Alliance churches having well-prepared people ready to send, yet lacking the means to sustain them long-term. My dream is to discover win-win-win-win situations where the Peruvian Alliance wins, the US C&MA wins, some of the world's least reached people win as they have opportunity to hear and believe the good news about Jesus . . . and God wins as His kingdom advances and His Church is established! May the Lord powerfully work to bring this to pass for His fame and reputation.
