What are your next steps?
GO
Global
Short-term
• Take part in one of your church or CU’s short-term mission trips. Alternatively, join one of the many trips on offer from a mission agency that you’ve had recommended. Find out more about our mission agency partners and their opportunities on our MomentumYes Partner Agencies page
• Explore short-term trips to other countries for prayer and practical experiences
Consider visiting one of your church’s mission partners.
• After talking with your mentor, your church leaders or the global mission team, contact one or two mission agencies to learn more about the process of becoming a full-time missionary.
Long-term
• Consider moving to and working in countries where access is difficult by using your vocation, such as business, teaching, tourism, medical professions, etc. Many mission agencies can help with this, or you could visit www.scatterglobal.com.
• Business as Mission is increasingly one of the best ways to establish a long-term identity in hard to reach nations – explore specific business start-up training with resources such as smallsimpleprofitable.com and wider resources at businessasmission.com
• Explore mission job opportunities at Global Connections.
Local
• For international student outreach, check out Friends International.
• Talk to people from other backgrounds whom you see in stores, restaurants, or your church. Begin to build relationships with them.
• Adopt an international student. Invite him or her to have coffee, see a movie, or attend a sports event. Invite the student to your home for dinner.
• Be more mindful of individuals from other backgrounds in your neighbourhood, school, or workplace. Be intentional, connecting with them, rather than feeling awkward or uncomfortable.
• For work with new neighbours, refugees or asylum seekers, connect with Welcome Churches.
• Use find.bible to easily share Scripture with your friends in their own languages.
• Download other great apps for reaching those from other cultures/languages. E.g. Discover, Kolo World, GodTools, JesusFilm
• Consider volunteering to teach your language to others who don’t know it.
• Read Across the Street and Around the World by Jeannie Marie.
• Attend a Friendship First course to help pave the way for building relationships with Muslims in your community.
SEND
Discover
• Start to think globally. Purchase a world map, hang it up, or save it on your computer. When you hear about a country, find it on the map.
• Read/research Operation World, Open Doors, and/or Joshua Project online.
• Read or watch BBC world news. Watch movies/read books that are cross-cultural, i.e., Blood Diamond, The Kite Runner, In America, The Visitor, Gran Torino, Hotel Rwanda.
• Read biographies of missionaries, testimonies of people in other cultures coming to Christ, books about cross-cultural ministry etc – one great starter series is the Christian
Heroes, Then & Now by YWAM publishing.
• Take Perspectives or Pathways or Kairos to grow your worldview and dig deeper into God’s mission.
• Subscribe to some mission podcasts, e.g. RAW Mission from Frontiers UK, Til the World Hears from WEC UK, The Africa Inland Mission Podcast or Relentless Pursuit by Pioneers
Invest
• Give extravagantly when a friend is going on a mission trip.
• Offer to host dinners/fund-raisers for mission trips or for friends who go as missionaries.
• Give toward a specific mission project.
• Personally support missionaries.
• Leave a legacy in your will to a mission agency.
• Focus on giving your money to unreached-people-group missions.
• Read Serving as Senders Today, by Neal Pirolo.
• Spend time reading articles found at missionarycare.com.
• Serve on a Support Team for a missionary.
• Send messages of encouragement to missionaries.
• Use your skills to serve a missionary or mission agency, i.e., offer advice about business matters; aid leadership teams with planning, logistics, and maintaining grounds and facilities projects; help develop content for blogs and/or websites.
Pray
• Pray when you hear about world events on the news!
• Use Prayercast videos during your prayer time.
• Pray for Muslims for 30 days during Ramadan. Visit this site. (This page also has prayer guides for Hindus and Sikhs)
• Join or start a group that emphasises praying for the world, a specific mission, or missionaries from your church.
• Use world-prayer apps such as Unreached of the Day, Operation World etc.
• Pray for the persecuted church with Open Doors, CSW or Release International
• Sign up to be part of a prayer team for friends/family who are on short- or long-term mission trips.
• Pray when you drive past the local mosque, and Hindu or Buddhist temples.
• Pray intentionally when you encounter people from different backgrounds at a store, work, an sports event, a traffic light etc.
• Read about the Moravians who prayed 24/7 for a hundred years!
• Read Dirty Glory by Pete Greig
• Check out MAHABBA, the network of Christians in the UK praying for and reaching out to Muslims
MOBILISE
Invite
• Teach others to do what you are doing.
• Offer to join your church mission committee/global outreach group
• Organise a globally focused prayer group.
• Share JoshuaProject.net with a friend or family member.
• Invite a missions mobiliser or missionary to share with your small group/church youth
Train
• Discuss what you are learning about the world with your friends/family.
• Check out the many online and in-person courses at All Nations Christian College, Redcliffe and Crosslands
• Run a Friendship First or Joining the Family course in your church.
• Integrate elements from Momentum Yes into your small group or Bible study.
• Facilitate a six-week MomentumYes group with your friends.
• Start a ZÚME group and learn together how to obey the Great Commission and make disciples who multiply.