Get Involved

This is a list of ways you can start getting involved in worldwide missions. It comes from the Joshua Project website 

http://www.joshuaproject.net/

Cultivate A Passion

• Trace the word "nations" through the Old and New Testament.

• Memorize Great Commission verses like: Gen 12:1-3; Psa 67:1-7; Matt 24:14; Matt 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:45-49; Acts 1:8, Rev 5:9-10 and Rev 7:9-10.

• Read a good introduction to missions such as:

▪ Let the Nations Be Glad

▪ 2020 Vision

▪ The Church is Bigger Than You Think

▪ Don't Waste Your Life

• Get the 'big picture' of missions by viewing the "Status of World Evangelization".

• Print out a copy of the 100 largest unreached peoples and pray for one each day.

• Pray through a copy of Operation World using a world map.

• Read missionary biographies such as:

▪ Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secrets

▪ Green Leaf in Drought Time

▪ The Heavenly Man

▪ Shadow of the Almighty

▪ Eternity in Their Hearts

• Subscribe to Mission Frontiers magazine (free).

• Pray for least-reached (unreached) peoples using the Global Prayer Digest.

Strengthen Your Commitment

• Research a least-reached (unreached) people group and write a profile.

• Send Joshua Project a photo, map or profile of an unreached people group.

• Take the "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement" course.

• Form or join a local prayer group focusing on missions.

• Commit to pray for a Bible-less language group.

• Participate in a prayer network such as:

▪ Ethne-to-Ethne Initiative

▪ Praying Through the Window

▪ Global Day of Prayer

• Attend a major missions conference like Urbana or Passion.

Share Your Vision

• Add the Unreached People of the Day to your Facebook profile or website

• Put up a wall-sized unreached peoples world map in your dorm room or office

▪ Operation World

• Distribute unreached peoples materials to others

• Teachers and home-schoolers, develop an ethnic people research assignment

• Create a blog seeking to form a network around an unreached people group

• Network with others interested in a particular people group

• Write to missionaries to encourage them, and pray for them specifically

Equip Your Church

• Become part of the mission committee at your church

• Use an unreached people profile bulletin insert

• Print out and distribute an unreached poster, postcard, prayer card, or flyer

• Start a missions Sunday School class or small group. Some excellent curriculum:

▪      Vision for the Nations

▪ The Kairos Course

▪ The Story of the Bible: God's Global Glory

▪  God's Heart for the Nations

• Host a missions dinner and show the Status of World Evangelization presentation.

• Connect with missionaries sent by your church

Explore Opportunities

• CrossGlobalLink Opportunities Finder

• Pathways to Mission

• CrossWorld - Next Steps

• Pioneers - The Edge

• Frontiers - The Journey

• Mission Next - Where Do You Fit?

• Finishers - Discovering Opportunities

Minister among the Least-Reached

• Befriend foreign nationals in your local schools and/or neighborhood.

• Do evangelistic mailings into least-reached countries and peoples.

• Go on a short term mission project to an unreached people group.

• Join a work team serving needy people groups and regions.

• Go to an unreached area of the world as a tentmaker

• Obtain counsel from mature believers and experienced missionaries.

• Prepare yourself to go as a long-term missionary

Become a Sender

• Support a pioneer missionary or church planting effort.

• Support a national missionary through Gospel for Asia or Advancing Native Missions

• Sponsor a child in an unreached area through Compassion or World Vision.

• Help produce Gospel Recordings in a new language

• Provide resources for new audio recordings of the New Testament

• Fund language-based resources such as the Jesus film or God's Story video.

• Partner with Joshua Project in prayer and finances.