Where do you fit?
Derived from Henry Blackaby and Avery Willis's On Mission With God, these four basic categories of service provide a place in missions for every Christian. Find where you fit.
Advocate
- Generally speaking, a promoter or champion for God's work among the nations.
- Intercessor for the establishment of a church planting movement among at least one specific people group.
- Mobilizer of Advocates, Supporters, Workers, and Equippers to be on mission.
- Networker of key contacts and/or resources, that is, putting people together who can get the job done.
- Possessor of apostolic passion - planning to go but willing to stay.
Supporter
- Provider of prayer resources for at least one people group (i.e., this person connects intercessors with current prayer needs of at least one people group.)
- Provider of financial resources.
- Partner in developing business and/or professional opportunities that facilitate God's work among the nations.
- Possessor of apostolic passion - planning to go but willing to stay.
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Worker
- Volunteer for specific projects in cooperation with long-term Workers and missions teams.
- Short-term missionary (2-3 years) serving on a missions team.
- Tent-maker, or self-supporting missioner, working with a missions team.
- Long-term, or career missionary, serving through a missions agency on a missions team.
- Possessor of apostolic passion and is going.
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Equipper
- Called and gifted to be an equipper of the Advocates, Supporters, and Workers.
- Leader in a local church-equipping ministry.
- Communicator of apostolic passion - planning to go but willing to stay.
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