Grace Church Global Outreach Ministry seeks to nurture and strategically train individuals from the congregation by leading them through a three-step process—Knowing, Growing, Going. This process is designed to ground the church and equip leaders in the basic principles of missions, evangelism, and discipleship. The ultimate goal of this process is to send out fully trained disciples-missionaries into the world where they can multiply themselves through evangelism and disciple making, i.e. disciples who will make disciples. (II Timothy 2:2, Colossians 1:28) Courses and training classes are offered periodically throughout the year during Grace's regular Adult Training Times. 

I. KNOWING - Discovering Your Primary Purpose

Introduction and informational classes, gifts assessment, field trips and/or short- term trips.

OVERVIEW: (What to expect.)

• Loving God, Loving People (the Great Commandment)

• Living the Missional Life (the Great Commission; evangelism)

• Exploring the use of my Spiritual Gifts

• Gaining valuable experience through involvement in planned outreach opportunities, retreats, and trips.

COURSE GOALS:

1. Acquaint church leaders with the importance of missions and evangelism.

2. Introduce basic biblical principles and practice of missions and outreach.

3. Assist church volunteers in the discovery and use of their God-given gifts.

4. Provide short-term opportunities for outreach and evangelism, both locally and abroad.

PRACTICAL CURRICULUM (courses of study from this list)

• Journey In Missions 

• Something Needs to Change

• Serving As Senders

• Short-Term Missions

• Sharing Our Faith, Loving Others through Evangelism

• Makers (Disciple-Making)

• Unlikely Heroes

• Evangelism as a Way of Life

• Brave Enough to Follow

II. GROWING – Refining Your Call to Missions & Ministry

Biblical foundations, developing and adapting your gifts, evangelism-outreach, and discipleship.

OVERVIEW:

• Developing a heart for the gospel and Evangelism.

• Defining the missionary call (Am I called to vocational missions?).

• Understanding and developing your call to World Missions

•  Applying your skillset in evangelistic and missional situations.

COURSE GOALS:

1. Develop a missional mindset—missions and evangelism as the fulfillment of the Great Commission in the world.

2. Demonstrate that discipleship is the fulfillment of the purpose of the church through missions and outreach, “across the street and around the world.”

3. Train the church in the content and the communication of the true “Gospel” as opposed to false gospels.

4. Assist church members in the place where they can use their gifts for the propagation of the gospel in the world.

5. Provide further opportunities for outreach and evangelism, both locally and abroad.

PRACTICAL CURRICULUM(courses of study from this list)

• Discovering Your Primary Purpose, Part I, Part II

• Rediscovering God for witness

• The Missionary Call

• Sending and Going Together

• Follow Me (Gospel of Mark)

• The Gospel-Centered Life (Romans)

• Missions and the Local Church

• Radical Like Jesus, Part I, Part II

III. GOING - Actualizing Your Call to Go

Next steps; preparation and actualizing- getting to the field.

OVERVIEW:

• Identifying a field of service (home or abroad).

• Initiating the relationship with the sending church and the Missions

•  Support Teams (Harvest Team, Global Outreach Team, Mission Board).

• Prayer support team; partnerships (fund-raising).

•  Launching out (getting to the field; identifying vocational opportunities).

•  Practical advice for the missionary (language & culture; relationships with teams and nationals on the field, furlough rest, maintaining adequate support)

COURSE GOALS:

1. Understand the Biblical foundation for the worldwide missions mandate.

2. Communicate clearly the call to service, at home and/or abroad.

3. Show a love for people and the desire to evangelize and make disciples, both individually, and through organized Grace Church outreach events.

4. Articulate a command for clearly communicating the gospel. (soul-winning skills)

5. Develop a clear understanding of Biblical, cultural, and strategic perspectives in carrying out the Great Commission.

6. Demonstrate team-working skills necessary for cross-cultural missions.

7. Explore fund-raising options and partnership acquisition.

PRACTICAL CURRICULUM (courses of study from this list)

• Perspectives in World Missions

• Missions in the 21st Century

• Praying As You Go

• Missions: Joining God In His Work

• The Supremacy of God in Missions

• Life-Cycles and Vocational Missions

• Missions: God’s Heart for the World

• Western Christians in Global Missions

SENDING PROCESS

One of the Biblical functions of our church is the mobilization, preparation and sending of our own members into a field of missionary service. Helping our members discover their purpose in His overall mission and their specific role in God’s plan is part of Grace Church Global Outreach Ministry. Acts13:1-3 indicates that the church in Antioch confirmed the leading of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Barnabas and Saul, then commissioned them to the work they had been called to do.  We desire to pursue this same proactive approach to mobilizing our members into missions through the assistance of a mission agency, in cooperation and communication with Grace Church, the sending church.

The process of sending missionaries out from Grace Church will involve seven steps that are designed to strategically involve our church in the sending process, to better prepare the prospective missionary for service, and to forge stronger relationships between the church, the missionary, and the mission agency.