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SCGM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Singapore Centre for Global Missions ANNUAL REPORT 2016 SCGM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Singapore Centre for Global Missions ANNUAL REPORT 2016 ! CONTENTS Our Mission: ! Catalysing the National SCGM Strategic Thrust 2012-2016 2 National Director’s Report 2016 3 Missions Movement in SCGM 2016 Programme Highlights 6 Singapore! Singapore Resolution on Diaspora Missiology 7 SCGM Ministry Highlights 8 ! SCGM Fundraising Concert 9 Our Vision: SCGM Annual Lecture 2016: Social Holiness Transforms 10 Serving the Local Church SCGM Church Missions Strategy Consultation 2016 11 SCGM Urban Missional Business Forum 2016 12 in Missions Mobilisation Asia Evangelical Alliance Assembly /Mission Congress 13 in the 21st Century SCGM 2017 Programme 14 SCGM Budget 2017 15 SCGM Partners in 2016 16 SCGM Council 2016-2017 17 National Christian Children Ministry Retreat 2017 18 Certificate in Mission Practice 19 SCGM 36th Anniversary Dinner Snapshots 20 ! ! ! ! catalysing missions in Singapore !1 SCGM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 SCGM Strategic Thrust 2012-2016 Singapore Centre for Global Missions (SCGM) is a centre It’s heartening to see for world missions established in 1980 by a team of local SCGM connuing to be pastors and missions leaders in Singapore. Previously known a driving force for as SCEM, we have been serving to coordinate the efforts of local churches in missions and promoting partnership in our Singapore churches to missionary endeavours from Singapore. keep on the cu;ng edge of what God is Strategic Thought Leadership in Missions doing in the 21st SCGM serves to bring the best of missiological strategic Century. thinking and best practices to Singapore from all around the May God’s hand connue to world as we keep abreast with what God is doing in the 21st work powerfully as SCGM Century. We research, network and participate in creates even greater missiological conferences and missions networks regionally opportunies for God’s Kingdom and globally. We encourage the development of more Asian and empowers His people to be missionaries and missiologists who will advance the missionary God’s light in our turbulent enterprise from Asia, and Singapore. world. ! Contextual Missiologies and Innovations Rev Dominic Yeo General Superintendent, SCGM helps grow contextual missions strategies from Assemblies of God, Singapore Singapore as we reflect on our missions practice contextually Senior Pastor, and work with other Asian missions innovators in providing Trinity Chris@an Centre, Singapore relevant solutions to strategic and sustainable missions initiatives. Glocal Projects Consultation SCGM works alongside local churches and missions partners in developing strategic missions projects. We provide training resources and capacity building for local churches involved in missions. We network with and coach missional business project teams and help develop missiological frameworks for their projects. We encourage holistic and transformational projects which uplift the poor both spiritually and socially. Missional Mobilisation SCGM partners with local churches and missions agencies to encourage missions mobilisation and facilitate strategic missions partnerships. We have been serving the local churches through organising national missions conferences and consultations over the past decades. Since 2002, we have played a key part in organising the triennial GoForth National Missions Conferences and serving as the secretariat. ! !Strategise. Contextualise. Glocalise. Mobilise. catalysing missions in Singapore !2 SCGM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 national director’s report 2016 by Lawrence Ko, SCGM ND One of the key challenges SCGM has taken on over the years is to reflect on the Christian missions over time in the light of eternity. What is global missions in the 21st ! !Century? The world of missions Over the past 3 years, SCGM has continued to work with strategic partners to strengthen the missionary enterprise in and is a rapidly changing from Singapore as well as to labour with regional and global environment. We need partners who are seeking to address global trends and issues which are strategic for missions in the 21st Century. From someone to keep tabs on understanding religious world views to providing strategic developments and alert missions strategies and missionary training, to advocating better us so that we can do missionary care, we have sought to surface agendas which can extend the scope of Christian missions in Singapore. We seek to missions in the most present the Gospel at Street Level, where the Church is incarnate. effec-ve and relevant ! way. SCGM fills this need Specifically the SCGM Council has identified 3 Focus Areas in for us. strategic missions engagement for the past few years, viz. Creation Care, Missional Business and Urban Diaspora Missions. Creation Care is a gospel issue as well as missional Bishop Dr Wee Boon Hup issue and churches are still slow to appreciate the responsibility in The Methodist Church in caring for God's creation in the current ecological crisis. We Singapore hope to work with Christian churches and groups who are at the forefront of raising awareness and developing responses. Missional Business is a great way to move away from using business as merely platforms for missionary service in restricted countries into a new strategy which can transform communities and cultures through job creation, capability building and eventually nation-building. Urban Missions is a needed strategy for urban churches to engage the mushrooming cities in the developing Majority world, especially in Asia. The engagement needs to take place at social, cultural, economic and spiritual levels. The displacement of billions of people into diaspora communities will result in many undocumented immigrants being put into refugee camps as stateless persons with a bleak future. The urban draw of many from the rural into the cities will also result in increasingly millions of people living in urban slums, smack in the heart of expanding cities. These are huge challenges to consider and we shudder at the responsibilities confronting us. !Is the church adequate to rise to the challenge? The Church has a message of Hope for the City. It is a Hope inaugurated by our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope in our Lord Jesus Christ and His Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. The Gospel is the Hope of the world, it is God’s Truth … which can transform the world. Our Lord Jesus Christ pointed us to the Great Commandment (Mark 12:30-31): To Love God … with all our heart, soul, mind and strength…and! to love our neighbour as ourselves. catalysing missions in Singapore !3 SCGM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 National Director’s Report (Cont’d) "Loving our neighbour is the most transformational !social ethic the world has ever seen.” Jim Wallis We are to live and love God not just spiritually, but with our whole being. We are to live and love our neighbour not as disembodied souls but as persons made in the image of God, to love and serve the other wholly. It is a call to holistic missions.We need to love the last, the lost and the least … holistically. Jacques Ellul asserts: “Living must be understood not only in the spiritual sense, but fully and wholly in every sense, bodily, in the senses, socially, politically, intellectually and spiritually. One does not go without the other.” Urban missions is a key strategy in the 21st Century missions in Asia and in the world. As Asia experiences rapid urbanisation in the 21st Century, the cities of Asia have become the new harvest fields. The cities are what Ray Bakke calls, the next frontier, the new “10/40 window”. We must bring the message of Hope, the message of God’s Kingdom to the cities of Asia…and beyond. The Church must engage in Urban Missions. The Church must serve the Urban Poor… the material poor, the cultural poor and the spiritual poor. The Church can help shape the urban culture before urban culture shapes us all. Business can contribute to society in a different way than the government, charities, social or religious institutions. Corporates have had interest in social progress and have contributed to meeting social needs of the jobless, helpless and hopeless through socially responsible investment. Business can shape the world for good and for God’s Kingdom. Missional Business can help create a more equitable society through a moral economy and ethics of sustainability towards a new social covenant between citizens, business and government. Business Innovation !can drive the Change in Urbanism. The Church has a message of Hope for the City. The Church must be in the neighbourhood to love our neighbours. We must live out the gospel of Hope in the neighbourhood….at street level. Only then will there be Hope for our !neighbours. Love one another. Love our neighbour. These 3 focus areas of Creation Care, Missional Business and Urban Diaspora Missions will require active participation catalysing missions in Singapore !4 SCGM ANNUAL REPORT 2016 of the Christians in every church and every pew to engage. Thus we affirm the thrust developed at GoForth 2014 that all of us are called to serve in God’s missions as it takes “Everyone to reach Everyone” with the gospel. Mobilising “the Whole Church” in missions means getting every member of the church involved, not just the clergy or those called to full-time career missionary service, but also every believer young and old, at home or in the marketplace. Hence we worked actively with academics, business leaders, civil society leaders and missions leaders. As SCGM rebranded ourselves 5 years ago to focus on missions in the 21st century with the tagline “Global Missions 21”, we prayed that we can see God’s heart of compassion for His world and catch a glimpse of where He is at work. Let us then work with the resources both within the church and without, to respond creatively to God’s call to love Him and to love our neighbours in our present times. In the global village and dense cities we are living in, the world has moved into our neighbours.
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