Executive Director, Jay Matenga reflects on five months of reading and listening in conversations with missions leaders from diverse backgrounds. Here Jay introduces major issues facing us all and concludes with observations regarding our motivations as we face up to shifting missions thinking and practice.
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Racial disparities highlighted by the media prompted a response from the MC. In this article Jay shares his own experience of racism and explains why the MC response turned toward rectifying systemic injustice within the sphere of our influence and responsibility: the global missions community.
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COVID-19 is irreversibly affecting missions, but it is also providing an opportunity to reframe how we understand missions. Our identity as missionaries and missions is transforming. This post explores how missions leaders can positively navigate the transformation process.
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Executive Director, Jay writes quarterly updates for the Mission Commission community to keep everyone in the loop with what has been happening behind the scenes with the MC’s “Missions Port” hub: with leaders, Synergists, alliances and networks.
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By all accounts we are heading into a global economic meltdown: our century’s Great Depression. Here we explore the downturn and some of the impact on missions, especially as it hinders trans-border missions and hurts indigenous missions. Nevertheless, God’s mission continues.
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