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A MAGAZINE OF FRONTIER VENTURES A MAGAZINE Tokyo 2010 | Why It Still Matters missionfrontiers.org ISSUE 42:3 MAY / JUNE 2020 42:3 MAY ISSUE KNOWN KINGDOM 1053 MOVEMENTS Five years since the connict began in South Sudan, over 4 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Nearly 2.3 million of those are refugees, having ned to neighboring countries. Neva is 19 years old and a newlywed at a refugee camp in East Africa. She came to the camp 4 years earlier to escape the ghting in South Sudan. Neva cannot read and rst heard a Talking Bible two years ago. When she listened, she heard that they were supposed to forgive one another — a difficult task after years of ghting and hatred in her homeland. “I understood it was the Word of God, and meant to keep sin from entering my heart,” said Neva. When asked if she needed anything, Neva quietly requested this: “Would you pray to God for my husband, so he can lead his family and live as a Godly man?” A Talking Bible gives non-readers a chance to learn about God’s salvation and change their lives forever. MISSION FRONTIERS MAY/JUNE 2020 ISSUE The Ongoing Impact of Tokyo 2010 The Great Commission Network Global Steering Team Editorial: A Church Prepared for the Unreached Peoples Worst Intercession Task Force 04 Rick Wood 31 Elizabeth Adleta The Ongoing Impact of Tokyo 2010 “Beyond Christianity” The Great Commission Network 10 Years Later 08 Global Steering Team 34 Kevin Higgins Review of Tokyo 2010: A Global Mission Next Steps after Tokyo: Consultation & Celebration GGCN Asia 12 David M. Hupp 36 Rev. Paul Radha Krishnan CONTENTS Revisiting the Tokyo Declaration Toward the Edges 16 Marvin Newell 38 Kevin Higgins The State of the Unfinished Task 24:14 Coalition Update 19 Dr. Paul Eshleman 40 Justin D. Long Business for Movements Great Doors of Opportunity 22 Mary Ho & Vicky Warren 45 Greg Parsons There’s No Perfect Financing Missions Movement Recipe Rev. Dr. Sas Conradie 25 46 C. Anderson EXTRA Beyond Tokyo: an African Perspective 28 Dr. Ferdinand Nweke To subscribe to Mission Frontiers, go to www.missionfrontiers.org SUBSCRIBE and click on the SUBSCRIBE button on the top of the page. Mission Frontiers is published six times a year. Rick Wood, Editor Call 888-881-5861 for subscriptions, address changes Taya Johnson, Production Coordinator (714-226-9782 for Canada and overseas) Mike Riester, Graphic Design Email [email protected]; Photos from Unsplash.com Order online: www.missionfrontiers.org, choose subscribe. Contents © 2020 by Frontier Ventures Editorial Office: [email protected] Frontier Ventures is a member of VOL.42, NO.3 MAY/JUNE 2020 ISSN 0889-9436 Advertising: [email protected] MissioNexus and Evangelical Press Association (EPA). Website: www.missionfrontiers.org Our sincere thanks to the GGCN Steering Committee and Address: 1605 E. Elizabeth St. • Pasadena, CA 91104 Heather Pubols for their invaluable help in developing this issue. MISSION FRONTIERS MAY/JUNE 2020 A CHURCH PREPARED BY RICK WOOD FOR THE WORST EDITOR OF MF | [email protected] As I write, the world is reeling from as disciple-makers and church-planters in the absence of the effects of the coronavirus. Stock the usual pastoral leadership and large church meetings. markets are plummeting, restaurants, A mass audience of people dependent upon one pastor hotels and schools are closing and churches are canceling for directions is not equipped to share the gospel and services. Mission organizations are postponing or meet real needs in a crisis when things are at their worst. cancelling conferences. President Trump has declared When a viral pandemic infects the world, bringing fear and a national state of emergency. Whole countries like isolation, we need the viral spread of trained disciple-makers Italy, France and Spain are on lockdown. The world and church-planters to spread the love of Jesus to a world is hunkering down, hoping this “angel of death” will in chaos. Many churches are working creatively to reach pass by their door. With growing travel restrictions and out to people in the midst of this crisis through modern spreading quarantines, the global mission enterprise is technology. But that is no replacement for millions of being forced to rethink business as usual. In times like equipped disciple-makers. Because we have relied so these we need a Church that is prepared for the worst. much on a mass audience approach to sharing the gospel, the global Church is now largely ill-prepared to deal with At this time it is hard to know whether the draconian the current coronavirus crisis. measures taken by many governments around the world will effectively blunt the spread of this disease. With The methods and strategies currently being employed by a death rate seven times that of the typical flu, many the 1,053-plus Kingdom Movements growing around EDITORIAL countries are working to prevent their health systems the world are precisely the kind of disciple-making and from being overwhelmed such as in Italy. But what seems church-planting we need in times like this. The churches likely is that the world and our mission enterprise will in these movements are small, usually around 10 to 20 be dealing with this virus for some time to come until people who are much better able to monitor the health of their individual members than in a large audience. effective vaccines or treatments are widely available. This size of church is also well suited for monitoring So how should the global Church respond when the and serving those people in their respective relational world is falling apart? It is clear that our current western networks who may be ill and need help with meals, model of doing church, where people attend mass events, grocery shopping, etc. When it comes to dealing with is not capable of meeting the needs of the surrounding the needs of individual people in crisis, small groups society when governments and health officials ban such of committed, well-trained Jesus followers are much mass events for legitimate health reasons. Whether it is better able to deal with these needs than an impersonal, a virus, a war or persecution, the global Church needs to be disconnected larger group of audience members. spiritually prepared, well trained and effectively structured It is my hope and prayer that this current global crisis so that we can love and serve a frightened world in need. will wake up the global Church to the reality that doing As followers of Jesus, we need to approach such world church as usual will not suffice as we face various crises events with faith and courage, not fear. If we are at the going forward. It does not mean that we must do away front of the long lines at Costco to hoard toilet paper with all large church gatherings. What it does mean is just like everyone else, how can we be ministers of the that every church needs to develop a small group strategy gospel to a hurting world? We can’t. An unbeliever has where each believer is trained and equipped to make disciples and lead small groups or churches. This can no reason to listen to us or trust anything we say if we are help a movement to develop now and will prepare us for just as fearful as they are—unable to live out the gospel the next crisis when large church gatherings are no longer in faith. possible. This current crisis is a wake up call for the global We need a Church that is equipping disciples to be Church. The question is whether we will answer the call. disciple-makers, not passive audience members. We need church members who, on a moment’s notice, are trained and equipped to launch into action and carry on 4 MISSIONFRONTIERS.ORG Tokyo 2010 and Its Impact Today The 24:14 Movement Data Dashboard As of March 2020 Ten years ago, almost 1,000 delegates from 73 countries got together for the Tokyo 2010 The Problem: Losing Ground 74.6 million believers in all CPM conference. In this issue we look back over the One out of every three people has engagements last ten years to see what impact this meeting has no access to the gospel message. 4.4 million churches in all had on the course of world evangelization and 1985: 3.2 billion lost souls known CPM engagements to answer the legitimate question of “Why does 2019: 5.5 billion lost souls 71,000 believers per Stage 5+ CPM, average Tokyo 2010 still matter today?” Is it possible that Evangelism of unreached peoples 17 average believers a meeting of 1,000 mission and church leaders is not keeping pace with the per could actually be making a difference 10 years population growth rate. church, per CPM later? That is what we want to look at in this The Solution: Movements 24:14 Vision issue and to take note of what God has done over Church Planting Movements (CPMs) The Good News of Jesus Christ for the last 10 years in order to see what still remains grow rapidly and often exceed the every person and a Church for every to be done. I highly recommend Paul Eshleman’s population growth rate. people article on “The State of the Unfinished Task” In the last 20+ years the number Mission: Kingdom Movements in starting on page 19. It gives a great overview of of movements has increased all unreached peoples and in every where we have been, what we have accomplished dramatically, spreading to every place and the challenges we still face.