UPG Global Goal 3

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This page is devoted to the Global Goal of mobilizing 43,000 long-term pioneer cross-cultural teams to reach the unreached: bringing the Good News of the Kingdom to those who have no access to it.

Our first step: to create a swarm - My desire is to create a "swarm" - a decentralized, unregistered, free form "network" - of people and organizations that want to mobilize 43,000 teams.

Our plausible promise: to mobilize 43,000 new long-term pioneer cross-cultural teams to facilitate ministry that reaches unreached peoples.

Our measurement of success: Each team counts as a team if it is 2 to 4 people who are committed long-term to reaching an unreached people (measured as one scoring less than 3 on the Joshua Project scale or less than 50% evangelized by the World Christian Database).

[edit] Summary

As has have detailed elsewhere, we need approximately 50,000 teams or 150,000 workers. This seems like an astronomical goal, but it is entirely feasible. This is a rudimentary process which is proposed for editing.

First, we define a team as a group of 2 or 3 (or more) pioneer cross-cultural workers who are laboring for the holistic transformational change of 100,000 people by raising up local ministries in various categories. For ease of reference I am presently using the PEACE plan codes: Proclamation of the Gospel, Equip Leaders (vs. corrupt leadership), Assist the Poor, Care for the Sick, and Educate the Next Generation.

To recruit 50,000 teams implies 50,000 mobilization “events.” First, let's define what an “event” is. I am not talking about some kind of party, ceremony, conference, etc. Rather, I am speaking of the moment in time when someone decides to apply to a mission agency and is accepted. This is an “event”--the successful mobilization of one person, and potentially one team.

To achieve 50,000 of these events, we need event coordinators or mobilizers. Most of these mobilizers will be volunteers. They will be unpaid participants with little prior knowledge of missions, mission agency requirements, etc. So, in order to guarantee their success (or at least improve the chances of success), we need to train them with a mobilization process that is likely to result in the successful mobilization of at least one team.

This implies that we need trainers. A rough estimate: 5,000 trainers, each responsible for identifying, recruiting, and training 10 mobilizers. Likely, the mobilizers will be a “revolving door”: some will only recruit 1 team, some will recruit more than one team. Trainers will have an ongoing job. They will need to figure out likely candidates, connect with them, recruit them, train them, network them, motivate them, and keep them going through the easy and hard patches. These trainers, too, will most likely be volunteers although some may be participating staffers of churches or mission agencies. They will probably have more knowledge of missions but their awareness of agencies and their needs may be minimal. They, too, will need training.

The work of recruiting and training the trainers belongs to what I call “ToTs” (appropriately enough, the trainers-of-trainers). We may need about 500 of these. There will likely be more than one trainer per city, but ToTs may be city-wide (depending on the place where training is being done). ToTs will probably be highly familiar with missions and mission agencies, and will be responsible for networking between agencies, churches, trainers, etc. I would hope that these folks would be full-time or nearly full-time in the work of mobilization.

Finally, we'll need some “spark plugs”--the people who get the ball rolling in certain regions and countries. So, to round this off, let's estimate 50 state/national facilitators and 5 national/regional facilitators, because this is a global effort. These folks will be responsible for recruiting ToTs and coordinating wide-area events.

To put this into place, the pieces we'll need are: (1) the beginnings of a mobilizer's toolbox, with specific tools to use for mobilization and an idea of the process; (2) some idea of what the requirements would be for a mobilizer, a trainer, and a ToT; (3) an initial list of people who we should approach. These tools will be archived at http://www.momentum-mag.org/w/index.php?title=UPG_Global_Goal_3.

Feel free to edit this document.

[edit] Connectivity

If you want to be part of this swarm, you can volunteer yourself! We are not going to give you any marching orders: you simply have to agree to the plausible promise above and then begin deciding how you will contribute to its achievement in your locality. We will help connect you to others who are doing the same thing so that we can share ideas and resources. If you would like to sign this page, you can do so - that way others know you are part of this. You can provide as much or as little information as you like (although we do ask that you limit your entry to, say, 1 or 2 lines so that we don't have a massive page of advertisements). This is not a place to sell services or goods, so no ads please... we will figure out the fine line between mentioning resources and overtly advertising as we go along.

• Justin Long (Southeast Asia) - facilitating the g3-mobilize43k@strategicnetwork.org egroup, editing Momentum. justinlong@gmail.com
• John McVay (North America) - coordinating The Journey Deepens retreats & resources for prospective missionaries, jmcvay@inhisimage.org