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A Journey in Partnership — Now Go Deeper Contents Partnering Together in God’s Global Mission: Strategy Process Report A journey in partnership — now go deeper Contents 3 Director’s Message 4 Introduction 6 Description and Outcomes of Each of the 10 Consultations World Mission Staff, Mission Co-workers, Regional Liaisons 8 Global Partner Consultations Africa Middle East and Europe Asia and the Pacific Latin America and the Caribbean 25 Domestic Partner Consultations U.S. Southeast U.S. Northeast U.S. West Non-World Mission Staff of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) People of Color 40 Research Services Key Findings 41 Going Deeper Director’s Message It has been a blessing to serve as the interim director of World Mission these past few months. I’ve been doing a lot of listening — to global partners, mid councils, mission co-workers and staff. We are not only looking at the past to see what we need to carry forward and build on; we are also looking toward the future. World Mission’s strategic planning process encompasses both of those categories. I wanted to share with you the status of our work by providing this report. World Mission began compiling information, both qualitative and quantitative, in the fall of 2018. We gathered input from domestic and global partners, as well as allied organizations, with the intent of creating a new strategic vision to carry us through the next decade. Our previous strategic plan was formulated over a decade ago, and Sara Pottschmidt Lisherness there was a need for a fresh reading of the signs in a rapidly changing Director, Compassion, Peace & geopolitical and religious context. Justice Ministry, and Interim Director, The strategy process included 10 consultations, domestic and Presbyterian World Mission international, with more than 500 participants and 140 global partners. Those strategic conversations gave our partners the opportunity to talk in-depth with World Mission staff about the changing landscapes in their communities and also provided our partners a space to share together and look for new ways to collaborate. After nearly 18 months of gathering insights, there were 300 pages of notes to analyze. The PC(USA)'s Research Services team spent weeks looking for common themes and produced a 40-page summary report, which offered deep insights but no clear priority or directive. What it did show clearly was that there were areas where World Mission needed to go deeper. Those included more in-depth missiological grounding, insights from our ecumenical partners and additional input from our mission co-workers. Additionally, both the 222nd and 223rd General Assemblies (2016 and 2018) directed the PC(USA) to act boldly and compassionately to serve people who are hungry, oppressed, imprisoned or poor. This gave birth to the Matthew 25 invitation, adopted by the PC(USA) to actively engage in the world around us, so our faith comes alive and we wake up to new possibilities. More than 550 churches and mid councils have joined to support that work to date. The three focus areas of Matthew 25 — dismantling structural racism, eradicating systemic poverty and building congregational vitality — have been adopted by the Church, and whatever vision we set for the future will reflect this commitment. The process for gathering additional input has already begun and is ongoing. It will become part of the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s overall strategic plan and will guide World Mission’s work for the next five to 10 years. We do not yet have a final date for rolling out a complete analysis because we want the quality of work to drive the process, not the timeline. There will be regular updates along the way. 3 Introduction Between September 2018 and July In each consultation there was also 2019, the World Mission ministry a locally led, contextual reading of area of the Presbyterian Mission the signs of the times that paved Agency held 10 consultations, the way for exploring the question, involving 522 participants from “Where is God calling us to put our our global partners, PC(USA) energy today?” constituencies and Presbyterian An overview of the entire process Center colleagues, plus around is illustrated on the facing page. 50 Louisville-based World Mission staff and World Mission regional At the end of the process, we staff from across the world. It was had accumulated more than a significant consultative exercise 300 pages of table group notes, that grew out of the initial idea full of wonderful observations, of then World Mission Director insights and ideas. This material José Luis Casal that we should was passed to the Presbyterian review World Mission’s strategy Center’s Research Services team and how we engage with our for analysis of key themes to help global partners and PC(USA) structure our discussions and constituencies. reflections on the outcomes. Each consultation table group had Except for the initial consultation also been asked to identify the with World Mission Louisville- two key points they had heard in based staff and global regional answer to the questions: staff, all the consultations followed the same pattern, exploring these • Where is God calling us to put our questions: energy today? • How effective have we been • What does it mean to be partners as partners sharing together in in God’s mission today? God’s mission? At the conclusion of each • Where is God calling us to put consultation, the table groups our energy today? were asked to name the one thing they wanted World Mission • What does it mean to be partners to hear from everything that had in God’s mission today? been said. • What might this look like in With all this information, the practice? directors and coordinators of • What resources are needed, and World Mission met in retreat what can we contribute? along with the Rev. Dr. Diane At each consultation there were Moffett, president and executive both local and Presbyterian director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) readings Mission Agency, who had of Matthew 25. Engaging and participated in many of the illuminating Bible studies helped consultations leading the PMA us to delve into what it means to reading of Matthew 25. They were be a Matthew 25 church, as the joined by colleagues from Human PC(USA) has been mandated by its Resources and Communications General Assembly to become. to discern where all we had heard was leading us. 4 Facilitated by Ed Cortas from the Services team identified in its Center for Nonprofit Excellence, analysis of all the outputs from who had been accompanying us the consultations. as our consultant, we dug deep It was an amazing privilege to into the material and into our accompany my colleagues, our own workings as World Mission. global partners and people from That is still a work in progress, across the PC(USA) representing but you can read our initial so many different strands of the observations at the end of this church as we wrestled with the publication. First though, get a overarching question of what it feel for the journey and read how means to be a partner in God’s each consultation contributed global mission at this time. to the process. We have included Thank you to everyone who has each table group’s two-point and been a part of this process. We one-point answers, referenced look forward to continuing the above, to give examples of what journey with you. each consultation lifted up for us. Following the consultation Philip Woods reports, we have provided the World Mission Associate Director — key findings that the Research Strategy, Program and Recruitment Strategy Process Overview Global Partners Domestic Partners Internal key learning key learning key learning & visioning & visioning & visioning Africa Southeast World Mission Middle East Northeast Staff & Europe West Asia Pacific PMA, OGA, & Latin America PCUSA Agencies & Caribbean People of Color World Mission Strategy Table Retreat 5 World Mission Presbyterian World Mission Staff and mission personnel held its first consultation among reviewed World Mission’s current Staff, Mission World Mission staff on Sept. 11–12, strategic direction to determine 2018, during regional staff training what was going well and what Co-workers and days held in Louisville. World needed improvement. The Regional Liaisons Mission dedicated two full days to following captures a limited work with Louisville-based staff, selection of comments regarding internationally deployed what has been working and what and regionally serving mission has not, in terms of the work of co-workers to provide input reconciliation, evangelism and into the process. The process addressing causes of poverty. was facilitated by two World Mission staff. Reconciliation Working Not Working • Peru and Chile: reconciliation with the environment • At times global issues hinder the reconciliation process. For • Partners interested in learning how we are addressing racism example, the current travel ban to North Korea hinders the peacemaking process. • Development of trauma healing ministries has been meeting a great need. • Need to collaborate more closely with Compassion, Peace & Justice ministry • Good work addressing issues of violence against women and children, thanks to Presbyterian Women and other programs • Compassion fatigue and disaster preparedness • Good interfaith dialogue, action and cooperation in different places Evangelism Working Not Working • Training of leaders is highly appreciated, though World Mission • Mislabeled — what we really mean is education has limited capacity. • Many forces continue to tie to old definitions of evangelism. • Leadership
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