ALLIANCE FOR VULNERABLE MISSION
March 6th, 2008
Conference Dates.
Friday 16th January 2009
director of Global Service Associates is to arrange this conference. Details pending.)
Tuesday 20th January 2009
Friday 23rd January 2009
Tuesday 27th January 2009
Friday 30th January 2009
Tuesday 10th March 2009
Please note that dates refer to 2009 and not 2008.
Jim Harries
Chairman of the Board:
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are looking for people to contribute papers relating to vulnerable mission to be presented at the conferences and/or posted on the web. Papers should be encouraging either ministry without Western resources, and / or the use of local languages in Christian mission. Please contact jim@vulnerablemission.com for details, and send him your drafts.
Recent papers written by vulnerable mission stakeholders: http://www.jim-mission.org.uk/discussion/index.html
Other articles related to vulnerable mission: http://www.jim-mission.org.uk/articles/index.html
………………………………………………… ALLIANCE FOR VULNERABLE MISSION
a new order in reaching the nations (a proposal for conferences and association in mission)
For more information contact Jim@vulnerablemission.com
www.vulnerablemission.com
We are intending to locate an interdenominational and inter-agency group of people who will follow a vulnerable path which is a new way of engaging inter-church relationship and thus countering some of the unfortunate dependency and other ill-effects of missionary and aid / development agency practices by the West to the Third World. Target – all those concerned to share the good news of Jesus Christ worldwide.
Add your comments to this blog:
————- Vulnerable Missions Discussion ————
See this important link: You Said What?
Participants in this group are those who agree with the need to do the following in mission from the West to the non-West:
1. Depend on local (indigenous) tongues as the primary (or hopefully exclusive) language of interaction, planning and ministry with local people in foreign mission from the West.
2. Avoid using outside money to start, subsidize or sustain ministry activities in this mission. They will stick to forms of ministry the local people can afford.
3. Learn to imitate / appreciate local ways of operating.
Dr. Stan Nussbaum Staff Missiologist, Global Mapping International, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Dr. Tim Lewis Director of the Strategy Division, US Centre for World Missions, Pasadena, S. California, CA, USA
Jay Gary, assistant professor at Regent University’s School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, in Virginia Beach, VA.
See the articles below for insights into ‘Vulnerable Mission’
Race, Language and Traps in African Development
Difficult Questions of Giving - A Response
Frontier Missions and Pragmatics
The Effectiveness of Short Term Missionaries to Africa
The Immorality of Aid to the Third World Is there a cure for Dependency among Mission-Established Churches?
A new book on mission ‘dependency’ available over the web
Dr. Robert Reese. Board Member. (Has now resigned.) World Ministry Associates resource director
Dr. Stan Nussbaum. Board Member. Staff missiologist for Global Mapping International

Glenn Schwartz. Advisor to the Board. Director. World Mission Associates

Jay Gary. Board member. Peakfutures consulting, Regent University.
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Steve Knight. Advisor to the Board. Communications Coordinator, SIM international office

Hans Schultheiss. Advisor to the Board. Lecturer in Missions, Germany