www.beonmission.org River Ministry Texas Partnerships Mission Opportunities
Go Now Missions for College Students
Missions Through Woman’s Missionary Union
Missions Opportunities through Texas Baptist Men
LifeCall Missions®
Texas Baptists are on mission in their communities and in the world in ways that we are describing as Pray / Give / Go / Partner. www.beonmission.org is a place offering a connection to worldwide Texas Baptist missions opportunities and needs. River MinistryBrochure
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Connecting and Assigning Churches to Specific Projects - Mexico BGCT’s partnership with the Mexico Baptist National Convention now opens the doors for our churches to adopt an unreached ethno-linguistic group in the Mexico interior. The Mexico convention mission leaders have shared ten adoptable mission fields where national missionaries are attempting to reach fourteen indigenous Indian groups. Churches may choose to partner with sister Hispanic churches in Texas or along the Texas/Mexico border to adopt the same people group and more effectively perform cross-cultural missions in these very challenging fields. Once a church decides to adopt a specific people group or under-reached field, cultural materials and prayer guides for that specific people group can be obtained from the River Ministry office.
Connecting and Assigning Churches to Specific Projects - Border Churches searching for a mission project along the Texas/Mexico border can review a listing of potential projects on www.beonmission.org. Group leaders also can attend training conferences in January and February and schedule a personal consultation with border missionaries to get a project assignment.
Training and Orientation for Mission Groups Two up-state training and orientation conferences are conducted by BGCT’s River Ministry each year for groups seeking a border mission project assignment. Border missionaries are available for personal consultations with your church to discuss potential projects. You will leave the conference with a project assignment. “How to” conferences for VBS teams, construction teams, healthcare teams and evangelism teams also are provided. Click the hyperlinks for the schedule of River Ministry training and orientation conferences for mission groups and a trip planning guide (pdf). Churches may contact our staff coordinators directly to discuss specific projects that match your mission team’s abilities and desire to serve. Decapolis Project Click below to view a brochure and learn more about this vision and mission to plant emerging churches in the ten most populated cities in Mexico. Decapolis Project Brochure (pdf) Leadership Equipping Conferences for Border Leaders & Churches You can request river ministry mission training for your church by contacting Daniel Rangel at 214-828-5182 or rivermin@bgct.org. Speakers for Churches to Promote River Ministry (River Ministry) and MHD Churches may request a speaker from BGCT’s River Ministry office any time during the year to share mission opportunities and to promote the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions. The River Ministry office also can provide a consultant to set up an exhibit for mission fairs and other mission activities. E-mail: rivermin@bgct.org
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Texas Baptists…and Texas PartnershipsTexas Baptists are all about missions. The traditional expression of mission service is the local church volunteer missionary seeking a short-term, life-stretching experience in mission service outside the borders of Texas. That’s why the Texas Partnerships ministry staff likes to refer to themselves at your “GPS for Missions”. We locate areas where we feel Baptists need a more prominent voice, such as in New England and Minnesota/Wisconsin within the USA, on in international locations like Venezuela, Nigeria and Ukraine. We then create partnerships with local Baptist bodies to carry out a wide range of ministries. Our staff works in conjunction with our partners to provide a selection of mission projects, based on their strategies. In other words, our projects are all derived from field-based strategies. Project Selection
We offer projects ranging from traditional mission opportunities such as preaching, evangelism, church planting and church construction to more creative forms of mission work like drama productions, children’s camps, and sports evangelism. Our current international partnership agreements are with Venezuela (2008-2010), Nigeria (2008-2010), and Ukraine (2007-2009). The USA-based partnerships are Impact Northeast (2008-2010) and Minnesota/Wisconsin (2008-2010). We also have on-going, limited-focus relationships with Spain (Christian school), South Africa (evangelism project), Austria (children’s ministry), and a number of other “friends” around the world. Projects can be viewed by geographical region or by project type.
In addition to Project Selection, the Texas Partnerships office offers a number of other resources to help you make your next mission experience the best ever. We can help you with issues such as General Mission Project Orientation, In-depth Mission Project Training, Prayer Network Resources, and Mission Project Logistics, to name a few of our services. Let’s take a closer look at several of these services. Orientation
Texas Partnerships wants each mission team to be the best-equipped team possible. We will provide each member of your mission team with an orientation manual that covers a variety of subjects. You will get General Information covering subjects such as financing your trip and supplemental travel insurance. We’ll share some Travel and Health Hints to help you with some common sense travel and health suggestions. You’ll be exposed to the basics of Customs and Culture so that you won’t be overwhelmed by culture stress or shock. We’ll give you some great ideas on Spiritual Preparation with some suggestions on how to prepare your personal testimony and how to witness in other cultures. We’ll provide you with the most current background information on your country assignment in the section My Assignment. Finally we’ll help you deal with issues that will help you with Preserving the Experience.
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Training Workshops
Mission Team orientation is a great start to help prepare you for a successful experience, but we believe that team orientation will be just scratching the surface. Let’s go deeper…with some training workshops designed to help you fine-tune your preparation.
Impact Your World is an interactive, cross-cultural awareness workshop designed to help you better understand what is involved in ministering across cultural lines. The workshop content comes from “Basic Training for Mission Teams” produced by the International Mission Board. The workshop is designed around several key questions.
“How did Jesus see the world around him?”
“What is Worldview…and Why is it important to understand?”
“What is Culture Stress…and How do I work my way through it?”
“Can I evangelize the same way as I do in Texas?”
“Is Spiritual Warfare an issue that I need to understand?”
We’ll come to your church…at a time that works best for the needs of your mission team. Customized workshops that focus on a single ministry issue can be developed according to your needs. Issues such as Muslim Evangelism, Mormon Evangelism, Working in Islamic Cultures, and Working with AIDS Victims are just a few of the issues where we can call on our personnel resources to help you go deeper in your preparation for ministry. Prayer Network Resource
Texas Partnerships believes in the vital importance of prayer for mission volunteers. Prayer prepares the way for a successful mission project. Prayer also sustains and strengthens volunteer missionaries. Prayer intercessors are an integral part of each mission team. Prayer, in the form of praises, helps build up and encourage Texas Baptists as they rejoice and celebrate the stories of mission involvement from sister Texas Baptist churches. Texas Partnerships publishes a quarterly Mission Update to provide both information and inspiration. Prayer needs and information pieces are included in each issue, as well as prayer answers and praises to celebrate and to rejoice over recent mission experiences.
Mission Project Logistics
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The Texas Partnerships staff will work with Texas Baptist mission teams during every step of mission project planning. We can provide a trip planning guide to help with step-by-step planning. Arranging airline tickets
Supplemental travel insurance
Passports and visas
Up-to-date information on travel inoculations and other health issues
Current security advisories.
Our goal is to provide basic, how-to, personalized service in all aspects of mission project participation.
Conclusion
Texas Partnerships staff is available to speak at your church any time during the year to promote and encourage mission service and to promote the Mary Hill Davis Offering for State Missions. We will be glad to set up a Texas Partnerships exhibit for mission fairs and other activities. Remember that we’ll go any distance…will partner with Baptist groups anywhere in the world…to carry the message of Christ.
E-mail: txpart@bgct.org
Phone: 214-828-5180 Back to Top Go Now Missions for College StudentsThe Go Now Missions arm of our work exists to help both campus and church groups in mobilizing today’s college students for service. The opportunities for college students to be involved in missions and go on mission trips are endless. Many local Baptist Student Ministry groups go on spring break mission trips while others serve at different times during the year. We can assist your college ministry group in learning more about missions; help you select, plan and go on a mission trip; and/or provide places for your college students to serve. E-mail: gonowmissions@bgct.org
Phone: 817-277-4077 Back to Top Missions Through Woman’s Missionary UnionChristian Women’s/Men’s Job Corps These two ministries of WMU have the identical purpose of providing a Christian context in which women and men are equipped for life and employment and a missions context in which women help women and men help men. By visiting the WMU of Texas web site you can locate sites across the state for both ministries, learn how to be involved and where to get training if you are interested in becoming a site coordinator.
Volunteer Connection and International Initiatives
Men, women, youth and children are connected with volunteer ministry projects through specific assignments or through missions opportunities such as MissionsFEST and FamilyFEST. Through International Initiatives, your church can address issues faced by women and children around the world.
Project HELP
This is a congregational focus to help churches understand social issues such as poverty, AIDS, hunger and literacy and it gives direction to address those needs in tangible ways.
Baptist Nursing Fellowship
Fellowship, continuing education and medical ministry opportunities for professional, student, and missionary nurses are provided locally, nationally and internationally. E-mail: wmutx@bgct.org
Phone: 888-968-6389 Back to Top Missions Opportunities through Texas Baptist MenThe purpose of TBM is to support bringing men to God through Christ by fostering programs that will assist the churches and associations in their tasks of leading men, young men, and boys to a deeper commitment to missions, to a more meaningful prayer life for missions, to a larger stewardship on behalf of missions, and to a personal involvement in missions. Learn more about their missions opportunities at their website. E-mail: texasbaptistmen@bgct.org
Phone: 214-828-5351 Back to Top LifeCall Missions has been developed to resource churches in empowering, equipping, and prayer-commissioning church members to become missions-practicing disciples. Click link above for information on LifeCall resources. E-mail: lindsay.cofield@bgct.org Phone: 214-828-5389 Back to Top |