New York Annual

Conference

Laity SessionGeorge Howard

Executive Director, Global Coaching

Network & Strategic Projects

THANK YOU NEW YORK

Mission of the UMC

Make Disciples of Jesus

Christ for the

Transformation of the

World.

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

Christian Faith Formation

Transforming

the World

Christian Faith Formation

Transforming

the World

Transforming

the World

Personal Christian Faith Formation

Where is God calling you to

Stretch and Grow?

Which practice will you

focus on?

Growing Movements

around the world:

Models of Development

The Wesleyan

Tradition

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

Africa

UMC

Model

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

Holistic Church

Model

Church

Food Security

Health

Education

Faith Formation

• 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?

Mission Initiatives:

Establishing a Holistic

Wesleyan Movement

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

New Mission InitiativeCentral African Republic

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

THANK YOU NEW YORK

Partnerships with:

Bolivia

Cambodia

Ecuador

Ghana

Mozambique

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.

Therefore Go…

Transform the World