What are your next steps?

GO

Travel

  • Take part in one of your church’s mission trips. If your church does not offer any, find a church in your community that does and ask to join them. Serve for a specific project: build a well, organize a VBS, take a prayer journey, etc.
  • After talking with your church missions leadership, contact an agency to learn more about the process of becoming a full-time missionary.
  • Discover options of great mission agencies for you by completing this survey with our partner, The Traveling Team, and a coach will contact you.
  • Consider moving to and working in countries where access is difficult by using your vocation, such as business, teaching, tourism, medical professions, etc. Visit www.scatterglobal.com.

Connect

  • Implement the ideas in the RISE Project video series.
  • 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 mov- ie, or attend an athletic event. Invite the student to your home for dinner.
  • Be more mindful of individuals from other backgrounds in your neighborhood, school, or workplace. Be intentional, connecting with them, rather than feeling awkward or uncomfortable.
  • Assist refugees or recent immigrants in your city with simple things, like transportation or locating the post office. Ask how you can help them navigate new surroundings.
  • Use find.bible or the Jesus Film Proj- ect app to easily share Scripture with your friends in their own languages.
  • Consider volunteering to teach your language to others who don’t know it.
  • Read Across the Street and Around the World, by Jeannie Marie.

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 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.
  • Attend a Bridges class to help pave the way for building relationships with Muslims in your community. Visit crescentproject.org.
  • Take Perspectives or Pathways or Kairos to grow your worldview and dig deeper into God’s mission.

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.
  • Personally support missionaries.
  • Fund a missionary to attend a debriefing program at MTI or TRAIN International.
  • Give toward a specific mission project.
  • 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 cards 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 during Ramadan. See Pray30Days.org.
  • Pray for Hindus during the Hindu Festival of Light. See 15 Days of Prayer for the Hindu World.
  • Join or start a group that emphasizes 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.
  • Sign up for prayer reminders with Pray for Tunisia, Global Christian Relief, etc.
  • 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 athletic event, a traffic light, etc.
  • Don’t underestimate the power of prayer: “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective” (James 5:16).
  • Read about the Moravians who prayed 24/7 for a hundred years!
  • Read Extreme Prayer, by Greg Pruett.

MOBILIZE

Invite

  • Teach others to do what you are doing.
  • Serve on a committee or a team that advocates/prays/strategizes for an unreached people area.
  • Organize a globally focused prayer group.
  • Share JoshuaProject.net with a friend or family member.
  • Invite a missions person to share with your small group.

Train

  • Discuss what you are learning about the world with your friends/family.
  • Facilitate a Bridges class, and assist others in building relationships with Muslims in your community.
  • 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.
  • Go through 40 Days 40 Bites with kids that you disciple. This is the book that Jessica & Ohsung use with their children.