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Global Outreach Team Purpose Statement and Values

The Global Outreach Team exists to help DEC in fulfilling Christ’s Great Commission.  (Matthew 28: 18-20)

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Updated 10/25/2007

We seek to develop and multiply those who are GOING.

We seek to be part of raising up laborers from DEC to answer the call to go, and to resource others from our greater local body.  We seek to encourage and support those going (and those that have already gone) in the areas of preparation, logistics, finances, prayer, communication and re-entry.  We seek to emphasize and be involved in direct, hands-on ministry.

We seek to develop and multiply those who are SENDING.

We seek to raise awareness of the ministry of sending workers out into the harvest and to highlight its importance in finishing the great task of making disciples in all nations.  We seek to offer educational and experiential opportunities about global and cultural issues that have an influence on the spread of the gospel among the nations.  We seek to resource our body with materials that will help them to be aware of God’s work, to pray, to communicate with and care for our workers.  In order to provide the most effective and efficient ministry goals, we encourage missionary support to be channeled through the church.

We value the following:

• Sending workers to unreached peoples*

• Supporting and training nationals toward healthy growth in areas where the church is weak

• Caring for the poor, sick and neglected (spiritually and physically) in order to defend and confirm the character of God and His Kingdom

• Investing in the Christian ministries at UNH

• Cooperating with other Seacoast Evangelical Ministers Fellowship churches to send workers out

• Developing our skills in equipping and sending

• Educating ourselves about current trends in missions

• Sending out short term trips with long term sustainable goals/partnerships

• Careful communication

• Asking heart-level questions about the ministries we support

• Using our unique gifts and skills as a body to further God’s Kingdom

• Considering the support of various regional/domestic ministries

• Evaluating annually (strategies, values, team activities, missionaries and ministries supported)

• Accountability

*as defined by the Joshua Project (www.joshuaproject.net)

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