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Missions Committee and Subcommittees |
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According to Wesley's Missions Policy, the Missions Committee has a number of well-defined tasks:
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Make our congregation aware of the Biblical basis for theirChristian responsibility in the field of missions.
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Inform our congregation of the state and needs of our missionaries, mission fields and the missionary organisations we support.
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Encourage our congregation in the task of intercessory prayer for world missions / evangelisation, and for our missionaries.
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Care for the missionaries supported by Wesley Church, and to encourage our congregation to do the same.
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Identify, nurture and evaluate suitable members of Wesley Church with the call to tentmaking, short-term ministries and full-time pastoral or cross-cultural ministries.
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Send out missionaries and full-time workers into the field, locally or overseas, in collaboration with missions agencies or para-church organisations.
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Serve as a liaison between Wesley Church and our missionaries, our students, and the missionary organisations we support.
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Organise a missions education programme (including overseas missions trips and missions seminars), to expose and challenge our congregation and so bring missions into the very fabric of our church life.
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Develop and administer the church funds and designated giving allocated to Missions and Training Support.
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Implement the Missions Policy and review it every 3 years.
Subcommittees
In order to fulfil these roles, the committee has organized a few subcommittees:
Care & Nurture: processes applications for full-time theological studies or missions service, and also reviews and approves support for trainees and missionaries.
Field Development: plans programmes to assist the work on a number of fields through short-term and project efforts. Currently there are 3 focus areas:
- Yi ministry in East Asia - we have adopted this people group
- Isaan ministry in North-East Thailand - we assist a church-planting programme in Nong Bua Lam Phu district
- Cambodia - we are active in children's ministry and are looking at being involved in church development in other ways
Awareness, Training and Education: this subcommittee runs the Kairos training programme as well as other events and seminars to promote missions awareness and involvement.
Ad-hoc subcommittees are constituted when needed to review the Missions Policy and for the organization of missions conferences.
Currently all 3 subcommittees need help. Please contact the PTM for Missions for details on ways you can be involved.
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