Mission Mobilising Task Force

The MMTF is our proactive response to the changes and developments taking place in the practice and model, structure and strategy of global mission.

For some time now, the WEA:MC have been actively concerned in supporting, networking, developing and propagating mission mobilisation within this new era and atmosphere.

The Executive and Staff Team of the WEA:MC; Regional and National Mission Movements, and the existing MMN, have affirmed that Trev Gregory (UK) and Min-Young Jung (KR) should undertake the leadership.

The global expressive and representative Task Force will aim to ‘motivate and facilitate the Church to unleash its full potential in reaching all peoples with the gospel. Through teaching, advocating, and linking Christians to opportunities for service in global mission, including praying, giving, and going.’

This will be achieved through:
• Networking with individuals, agencies and Regional WEA groups
• Establish and conduct a global Research Project
• Have input and submit regular articles for the WEA:MC Connections Journal
• Launch a Festival of Prayer
• Facilitate and manage a web presence

Core Team
Under the auspices and authority of the WEA:MC the MMTF will have a Core Team of 11 representing the regions and support for the MMTF work.

The Core Team will meet 2x each year; will be in regular contact with each other via email and phone; and be assigned particular tasks to oversee.

The first meeting of the MMTF Core Team will be in held in at the SIL/Wycliffe Centre, Dallas. October 10-14, 2005.

South Africa 2006-Celebrating the Global Church

The MC is committed to convene an international, working/equipping consultation each three years.  We now offer further details on our 2006 event, to be held in South Africa. As in all previous consultations, this is a by-invitation event focusing on a key set of mission issues and providing time and space for the MC working teams, task forces and networks. In the last twenty years the MC has not held a major event in Africa and we are delighted to visit that significant and huge continent on this occasion.  It is our purpose to contribute directly to the development of the African mission movement in very specific ways. One of the singular agenda items of this event will celebrate the transition of MC leadership from this writer to my successor, Bertil Ekstrom.

At "Canada 2003", our previous consultation which focused on the implications of globalization on world mission, we dedicated quality time to our working teams.  In South Africa we plan to invest 60% of the program to these groups, with a prime focus on equipping and strategizing.

General information:
Themes: Celebrating the Global Church
Rejoicing and questioning
Equipping and connecting
Praying and strategizing
Challenging all participants as reflective practitioners in wholistic mission
Dates: June 18-24-6 nights inclusive
Venue: Goudini Holiday Centre, east of Cape Town, South Africa
Participants: by invitation only, aiming for 250-275 women and men, younger and older, from the Global South and Global North
Plenaries:
Biblical exposition by the Vice-Archbishop of Uganda, David Zac Niringiyi;
A key session on ministry in the context of HIV/AIDS plus seminar periods;
A final report on the ReMAP II research project, with seminar periods;
A theology of holistic mission;
COMIBAM, the Latin American regional movement as a model for other regions;
The vision for and the challenge of African missionary initiatives in cross-cultural mission;
Key reports on China;
Missiological issues.
Some of the team projects include:
Equipping and building capacity for national mission movements, with particular focus on Africa
Equipping missionary trainers, with particular focus on Africa
Report and equipping seminar on ReMAP II-retention/best practices
Ministry and seminar in context of HIV/AIDS
Towards the less-reached peoples-ETHNE and SEALINK
Member Care issues
Mobilization of missionaries
Global missiology projects
Building business as mission and bi-vocational platforms and ministries