On Line Resources for Church Mission Committees
Eldrbarry's Missions Booklists
Some Handouts:
Mission to the World
A part of the material is a set of Four documents on developing a congregations' missions program: Laying the Foundation, Setting Your Sights, Setting the Pace and Reaching the Summit combined there is 128 pages of material. They also have an A diagnostic tool for churches to assess their world missions ministry
JAM Article: Helping Mission Committies to Inform the Congregation and to Implement Their Oversight of Mission Efforts by Gaston Tarbet
Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment ACMC was a catalyst for missions mobilization with thousands of local churches across the U.S. In 2007 ACMC became a ministry of Pioneers, and in 2011, ACMC was retired, and its staff transitioned into other ministry roles, independently and with other organizations. Sadly a lot of valuable resources ae gone. They still have a downloadable Missions Assessment Profile (MAP) - a useful tool for accessing your congregations mission program.
Missionary Journals
- Evangelical Missions Quarterly is now published by
Missio Nexus who has reached an agreement with the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College to continue publication of Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ).
- International bulletin of Missionary Research
published by the Overseas Ministries Studies Center
- The Missiology Homepage
- The Journal of Applied Missiology (abbreviated JAM) was a semi-annual publication of the ACU Missions Department, with issues in April and October from 1990 to 1996. Edited by Ed Mathews, it was produced in limited quantities for missions alumni, missionaries on the field, and missions professors at sister institutions. All back issues are on-line :
here Or
here
- Missiology is the quarterly journal of the American Society of Missiology. It began publication in 1973, continuing in the tradition of its predecessor Practical Anthropology. An one of the premier scholarly journals of mission studies, it is distinctively: • multi-disciplinary: including history, theology, anthropology, communication theory, religious encounter, ecumenics, methodology. • interconfessional: including works from Roman Catholic, conciliar, and conservative evangelical spheres. • practical: including not just theoretical reflection, but applied mission science. Among other items are some extensive bibliographies
- American Society of Missiology publishes Missiology: An International Review Archives:
Mercy and Development Ministry:
Other Missions Resources
- Third Millenium Most pastors in the world have no theological education and no way to obtain one. Thirdmill is working to meet this global need by creating and distributing a high-quality, multimedia seminary curriculum in the major languages of the world. Our goal is to make seminary-level education available to Evangelical Christians in their own lands, in their own languages, for free.
- Halbert Institute at Abilene Christian University
- Emercy (MRC) MissionaryResources.org
- Missionary Fundraising Resources
- Missionary Training International Training Programs and workshops
“Our passion is to see cross-cultural messengers of God’s grace and their families experience effectiveness, longevity and a deep sense of satisfaction in their calling. For this reason, we provide character development training and debriefing on the issues that are very practical and highly relevant to thriving in missions.”
International Training Partners (ITP) Handouts on Inter-personal communication skills. A global network of Christian workers, facilitators, and trainers from more than eighty organizations serving together in an informal partnership to provide practical, interactive, biblical training in interpersonal relationships for Christian workers. ITP workshops are conducted around the world in various languages with a focus on enhancing the effectiveness of Christian workers, particularly those serving across cultures.
- The Finishers Project provides Christian adults with information, challenge and pathways for discovering and processing opportunities in missions — short-term or as a second career.
- Howard Culbertson's Home Pages Professor of missions and world evangelism - Southern Nazarene University - an extensive and useful site: Site contents
- Network for Unreached Peoples focused on unreached peoples without access to the Gospel.
- WEC International --- Operation World
- David Mays.Org
