KE Mission Fellowship Midrand: September 2010

Sunday

Stats from the Joshua Project - Sat 25 Sept

In hearing about peoples’ kingdom experiences, most of us shared the general wall of reluctance /lack of knowledge we hit when broaching the mission’s subject in those churches. Some are offended. Some think missions is money. Some say missions is not for everybody. Some are simply not doing IT. We think it is a good thermometer of adequate kingdom maturity.

Grant showed us a Joshua Project power point presentation looking at world evangelization statistics for reached/unreached ethné and the unfinished task at hand. The bible is currently only fully translated in 450 languages: another 2100 languages needs to be done – add to that a 1000 disappearing languages.

**more Christians are martyred in the 20th century than the combined 19 centuries together **only 1 out of 10 x-cultural foreign missionaries minister among unreached people groups ** for every $1 of Christian giving ½ penny (1/2 of 1c) goes to financing pioneer church planting among unreached peoples

The presentation ends with ‘Every follower of Christ has the responsibility and joy of participating in the Great Commission’. What’s the catch? What has the GC been defined as? Is it based on the kingdom program or the salvation program? Is missions the centrality i.e mission-centered-church or visa versa?

After supper the real journey continued, as always.

Monday

Sat 11 September - does God let us down?

We often suffer from impatience and anxiety and when we pray we want it NOW. 2 viewpoints are valid: from where you are (earthly perspective) and from where God is (an eternal perspective). Lordship. Fear. Disappointment. Recognise the real truth when things don’t turn out the way you expected it to. We all trust God to change stuff. He is Sovereign and He is Just. Belief will always go to worldview and worldview will always determine behavior.

Then we watched The Treasure Hunt or better known as The Matrix. It all sounded so familiar, amazing how the movie replicates a lot of what JP says in P2P…. Timeless, riveting, valid. So then, did you experience a deja vu moment recently?

Wednesday

few for fellowship

Again we were few fellows who came to fellowship, but even so, questions were asked and answers were served along with sandwiches and fried rice. We welcomed a new face including her heart and soul, found out a little more about who she was and what she does. Korea Modenda from Zimbabwe came up in the conversation and the testimony he has was shared by Jakes. All in all it was a good time, and fruitful.

Fellowship framework & logistics

Fellowship Frame work

1) To have close intimate fellowship that promotes being ‘real’ with each other.

2) To encourage focused prayer and quality time with the Lord.

3) To be a sounding board for plans, ideas, items of interest and tough issues.

4) To present mini teachings and facilitate serious contemporary discussions, to eat sacred cows and facilitate the ‘detox’ of toxic faith.

5) To discuss and plan actions that will assist the needy, the poor and the un-reached. (local & international)

6) To challenge each other to be ‘hands on’ in reaching out to those in point 5.

7) To give anyone opportunity to contribute by contacting the upcoming facilitator so as to arrange for the contribution to be included in the following week.

Facilitator role

Roles of the facilitator, before & after the upcoming fellowship

# To arrange the updating of the Blog which includes announcing the persons responsible for the following week, a summary of events during the past get together as well as the contact details of the next facilitator. (this person needs to be appointed before the fellowship you facilitate starts).

# To prepare the program & consider any incoming suggestions/ contributions from other members during the week. (Please ensure you remain within the Guidelines).