Diversifying Approaches to Sending People

Nathan Sloan from Sojourn in Louisville is sharing about diversifying approaches to sending people.

When the people that are being called to be sent don’t fit old patterns, what do we do? We think differently.

It would be easy to have a critical spirit, but that’s not what we are to be about.

Our first family that we sent out was with our church from the beginning. We didn’t send him well. As things began to explode there, we started to send teams and other short-term personnel to help them. This has developed into a regional partnership.

Our church is all about teams. Finding the right people on the ground and then working with them to develop healthy teams.

Starting to look more into southern France to place 3 to 5 couples that are business persons. Looking to establish a coffee shop and roastery. This would help fund their presence.

Getting behind Steve Timmis to see his network develop throughout western Europe to plant churches.

Also in partnership with Crowded House where we will swap our interns.

Want to highlight that we can send our people locally. This cross-cultural approach can be intimidating. 10% of our city is immigrants with some groups not having a single believer. We have identified those groups that do not have a church among their people to send our guys out to.

Our website for international missions. International.sojournchurch.com

Caleb sharing about professionals that quit their job to be full time missionaries to go and work like crazy go set up platforms to share the gospel.

Sometimes we can do with less creativity and take who we are and what we do to the mission field. Need to move from seeing mission as full-time to seeing it as part-time or shared-time or even to a virtual presence.

What if through clear communication like an info graphic we can help teachers and trade guys see how they can use their skills and career.