Tag Archives: facilitation

Go into all the World, and … “Facilitate”?

The Facilitation Missions Model: What are the concerns, and does it fit every situation? There is a growing emphasis in missions to “facilitate” evangelism and church planting by indigenous workers in their people groups, and to do less direct ministry and church planting by missionaries. The logic seems reasonable. The indigenous workers already know their [...]

Facilitation and Missions

May 22, 2008 Facilitation: The trend in missions is for missionaries to facilitate evangelism and church planting, but not do it directly. Our MTW InVision internet magazine (www.mtw.org/InVision) for May 2008 looks at both sides of this issue. I definitely have an opinion. In I Cor. 9:17, Paul did not say “Woe is me if [...]

A Response to the Facilitation Focus in Church Planting Cross Culturally

Written by Bruce Young December 20, 2006 (Edited and released May 22, 2008) (This is a response to the InVision church planting movements article by Dr. Kooistra.) In “Toward a Definition of Church-Planting Movements”, Dr. Paul Kooistra expressed hope that his article would “spur us to further dialogue and action.” I offer my observations as [...]