New York Annual
Conference
Laity SessionGeorge Howard
Executive Director, Global Coaching
Network & Strategic Projects
Global Ministries Connecting the Church in Mission
Changing World
Changing face of Mission
Greater Mobility
Greater Communication
Greater Interconnectedness
Greater Accountability
Global Ministries
Latin America Regional Office
Buenos Aires, Argentina– April 2016
New Global Headquarters
Atlanta, GA – October 2016
US Regional Office, Atlanta – Oct 2016
Asia Regional Office
Seoul Korea – Fall 2016
Africa Regional Office in TBA - 2017
John Wesley Model • King’s foundry for making cannons
• A charity school
• A dispensary
• An almshouse for nine poor widows
• A loan society
• Daily worship services
• Class meetings
North Katanga UMC Model
• Church
• Parsonage
• Garden for the pastor’s family
• School
• Medical clinic
• Well
UM Church for
All People Model• Worship
• Affordable Housing
• Community music and arts
• Healthy eating and living
• Afterschool
• Medical clinic
Values of Growing
Christian
Movements
Church
Relationship Driven
Asset Based
Healthy Partnerships
Holistic
• Where does your experience
align with any of this?
• Where would you challenge or
add to what I shared?
• How might this thinking inform
how you build partnerships
locally and globally?
What is a Mission
Initiative?• Planting and nurturing a Wesleyan
movement
• Asset-based leading
• Holistic approach locally led
• Healthy Partnerships engaging in
mutuality and relational ministry
Mission Initiatives2015 Transitions
Latvia
Lithuania
Russia/Eurasia
Current Initiatives
Cambodia
Cameroon
Central Asia
Honduras
Laos
Mongolia
Senegal
Thailand
Vietnam
Central African Republic• Expand an existing Methodist movement
with the Democratic Republic of Congo
(East Congo Area)
• Support local effort on spiritual and
material welfare
• 3 UM congregations, 2 pastors, 275
members, lay stewardship leadership focus
• 4.7-5.4 million population
• 60% in poverty
• 50% Christian, 15% Muslim, traditional
religions
Central African Republic
“Strengthening existing worshipping communities in CAR and creating new
ones will bring hope to many faces that have been abandoned for a long
time.”
-Bishop Unda Yemba Gabriel
Global Collaborations:
South East Asia and Mongolia Provisional
Central Conference
• 194 new faith communities in Cambodia,
Laos, Thailand, Vietnam & Mongolia
• Local Elders in Mission Commissioned
• W Ohio Board of Ordained Ministry affiliated
Adaptive Challenge:
Transition to New Concept of
Mission Partnership
Short Term
Needs-Based
Relief
Long Term
Asset-Based
Development
Methodism began as a movement of the
poor, for the poor, by the poor, and with
the poor. Failure to be in friendship and
ministry with the poor, the imprisoned,
and the vulnerable people of the world
is a betrayal of the gospel as
communicated through the Wesleyan
tradition.
Bishop Kenneth L. Carder
Key characteristics of
ministry with the poor
• Relationship building
• Vulnerability (affinity)
• Power equity
• Inclusive worship
• Asset based
• Sustainable impact
Ministry with the poor
• The UMC has been anointed to bring and receive
good news with the poor. Through developing
mutually engaging relationships, we, the living body
of Christ, work together to make disciples of Jesus
Christ, build inclusive worship communities,
transform our world and experience abundant life.
Dallas Round Table of MWTP Practitioners
November 2013
5 Steps for a 50/50 Conversation
1) Set Expectations: What are your dreams and aspirations? What do
you hope for our partnership together?
2) Assess & Discern Partnership:How are we empowering one another? How is our
partnership doing from a 50/50 perspective?
3) Know your Gifts: What has God blessed each of us with? What do
each of us have to offer vs what do they need? What
can we do WITH vs what can we do FOR?
4) Plan Together: Strategic Vision
Casting based on 50/50What can a partnership be which is relational,
holistic, asset based, and locally sustainable over
time.
5) Frequent Communication: Long-
Term Deepening of Partnership How do we share best practices, acknowledge
and address mistakes and ensure spiritually
grounded relationships.
The Spirit is always moving to sweep the
Church into a new mission age.
With openness and gratitude we await the
leading of the Spirit in ways not yet seen as
God continues to work God’s purposes out in
our own day in a new way.