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Global Ministries the GENERAL CONFERENCE of the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 843504028428_003NEW.qxp:QK003.qxd 1/24/12 4:25 PM Page 1087 DCA Advance Edition Global Ministries THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Volume 2 Nashville, Tennessee General Board of Global Ministries I. OVERVIEW vibrates within annual and central conferences; congre- gations, large and small; schools and colleges; hospitals; The General Board of Global Ministries is the and ethnic, racial, geographical, and social networks, global mission agency of The United Methodist Church, Global Ministries is a facilitator of mission—passionate its annual conferences, missionary conferences, and for partnership and open to the mission visions of others. local congregations. In ministry together, Global Ministries brings to the John Wesley set the tone for mission work in the table those who are in partnership with a conference or Methodist tradition in 1739 when he wrote, “I look upon group of congregations in order to share the work, set all the world as my parish.” Global Ministries traces its priorities together, and achieve as much transparency institutional roots to the denomination’s Board of and accountability as possible. Partnerships with the Foreign Missions, formed in 1834. Today, as the world- Large Churches Initiative, the Mission Society in the wide mission agency of The United Methodist Church, US, and mission boards of other churches such as The Global Ministries has personnel, projects, and partners Methodist Church in Britain or the United Church of in more than 136 countries. Canada, are building new relationships in the Connection. Through Volunteers in Mission, hundreds The Great Commission is quite clear: “Go . of thousands of United Methodists are engaging in serv- preach make disciples . all nations. .” United ice opportunities in the US and around the world each Methodists understand this mandate to include witness year These partnerships give Global Ministries the to Jesus Christ in word, attitude, ethical treatment of opportunity to expand the scope of ministry by shifting others, and service to all in need. The capacity to preach, energy from doing mission to facilitating mission— make disciples, and serve depends on God’s grace in ministering with communities, rather than to them. Jesus Christ, on God’s blessings, and on responding to the gift of grace. As the mission agency for a global church, Global eadership from Global Ministries and The Ministries sends missionaries from everywhere to Mission Society met in August 2010 to start a everywhere, a reality underscored at Edinburgh 2010, conversation on possibilities for cooperation which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the confer- L ence that ushered in the 20th-century missionary move- and collaboration. Important steps were taken toward ment. Patterns of service are different in the 21st century practical interaction between the organizations, par- than in the 19th or 20th centuries, particularly as the ticularly as it may relate to personnel and partner rela- center of Christian gravity has shifted to central Africa. tions in mission situations. In 2008, General The need, however, for professional mission service has not changed. Missionaries incarnate the universal mes- Conference resolved that Global Ministries hold con- sage of the church, sharing their faith in foreign lands sultations with The Mission Society. The society has in and bringing back their new experiences and transform- recent years established a non-denominational iden- ing themselves, the church, and the world. tity and no longer uses the phrase “ . of The United One mission organization cannot do all the mission Methodist Church” in its public promotion. work for which God is calling United Methodists. Through connecting with the mission energy that 1087 843504028428_003NEW.qxp:QK003.qxd 1/24/12 4:25 PM Page 1088 1088 DCA Advance Edition t the heart of Global Ministries’ mission is to be in ministry with the world’s most vulner- able people. At any given time, staff and missionaries put their lives in the balance Abecause they are bound to ideals of justice and peace. Working and ministering with communities means sharing risks and sacrifices. While Global Ministries had not lost any staff in the field in 20 years, in 2010 the organization lost three people who were responding to the needs of a broken world. In August 2010, Dan Terry, an aid worker who, for 30 years worked and lived in Afghanistan as part of the community, was murdered along with 10 other people. The Rev. Sam Dixon, the head of the United Methodist Committee on Relief and the Rev. Clinton Rabb, who led the mission volunteers for Global Ministries, died in January 2010 as a result of the same earthquake that took the lives of nearly 300,000 Haitians. The Rev. James Gulley, a Global Ministries consultant, who survived being trapped for 55 hours with the two men, says, “We remember that all the good they contributed in their lives has been multiplied through the Spirit of Christ working to bring forth God’s kingdom of healing, wholeness, and just relation- ships . we have picked up their mantles and are carrying on.” Global Ministries has four mission goals. The affected the number of directors, relations with United four goals summarize the responsibilities of Global Methodist Women, and created a vision for the future. Ministries as set forth in The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church and in the specific program The directors voted to reduce their number by two- assignments made by General Conference. The goals are thirds, from 92 to 32, while retaining a strong balance as follows: among members from the United States and central con- ferences. A long-held concern for diversity in member- Goal 1: Make Disciples of Jesus Christ ship along gender and racial lines will be upheld. Goal 2: Strengthen, Develop, and Renew Christian Congregations and Communities The strategic plan concerns such issues as program Goal 3: Alleviate Human Suffering and administrative operation, key performance areas, Goal 4: Seek Justice, Freedom, and Peace and formal statements of theology and purpose. A. Global Ministries’ Strategic Plan Theology of Mission During the quadrennium, Global Ministries went The Board Strategic Planning Team developed a through a strategic planning process. The purpose of the mission theology statement that guides Global Ministries’ process was to answer three key questions: participation in the Missio Dei. This theology of mission was developed as grounding for the organization’s work. 1. What do we know to be true about Global It is the foundation of the vision and purpose of mission. Ministries? It frames Global Ministries’ role within the denomina- 2. What do we hope will be true for Global tional mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the Ministries in the future? transformation of the world. The transforming power 3. What must go well in order to make it so? belongs to God, and Global Ministries is in mission to witness to what God has done and is doing, and to learn As a result of the process, directors of Global from what God is doing in every land where disciples Ministries took three major interrelated actions. These gather in the name of Jesus Christ. 843504028428_003NEW.qxp:QK003.qxd 1/24/12 4:25 PM Page 1089 Global Ministries 1089 God’s Mission from Creation to Completion Christ. This grace calls us to repentance, and to active God’s Mission reclaims the life of all creatures and faith and good works in Christ. Active faith participates redeems all creation for God’s intended purpose. Holy in the perfecting and fulfilling grace of God, which Scriptures bear witness to mission that begins with God, claims and implements the promises of God to deliver belongs to God, and will be fulfilled by God at the end exploited persons and oppressed peoples, to restore the of time. The Spirit of God, which moved over the waters sanctity and integrity of God’s creation, and to reconcile of chaos at creation, and the Word of God, which division in the households of faith and among the peo- became Incarnate in Jesus Christ, leads on to fullness in ples and nations of the earth, as all of creation groans for God’s purpose. redemption. The Wesleyan expectation of “perfection in love” draws redeemed individuals into appropriate, The Self-Emptying Life of Jesus the Christ in active, transforming relationships of wholeness and Service to the Least and the Last unity with God, all people, and creation. Repentance In response to God’s Mission for him, Jesus— and faith elicit both personal salvation and social and whom we Christians acknowledge as God’s Son and as cosmic transformation. the Christ, the anointed servant of God, and as our sav- ior—poured himself out in servanthood for all human- Transformative Witness ity, emptied himself of divine privilege, assuming the The Church in Mission lifts up the name of Jesus trials and risks of human limitation. With compassion, in thought, word, and deed, proclaiming Jesus Christ Jesus identified with all humanity and lived in radical as “the Word become flesh” through its own incarnate faithfulness to the will of God. He became obedient unto living, deeds of love and service, healing and renewal. death—even a humiliating public execution. In raising By representing the revelation of God in Christ in Jesus from the dead, God shows willingness and power word and deed, the Church remains faithful both to the to reconcile all creation and to restore the world to its Great Commandment that we love God with all our divine purpose. heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves; and to the Great Commission that we The Church as a Community of Servanthood in Mission make disciples of all nations. The Church as faithful God’s Holy Spirit calls the Church into being for community moves full of hope toward the transforma- mission.
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