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Team Make-up The age-old adage “the more the merrier” is well-said and most welcomed, however, specialized volunteer mission teams of five, for the most part, could be efficient, manageable, affordable and recruitable. The five could be chosen from one church or two, three, four, or five churches. These five people could do a glorious work in Strengthening OrStarting and staffing Churches By Clusters in a united, cooperative effort on the mission field.
Volunteer mission teams, once on the field, will have opportunities to strengthen or start and staff various types of churches. The small, older church with about 20 in attendance in Ipuiuna, Brazil, described below depicts a church that was inspired and strengthened through a volunteer mission team led by associational missionary, Harry Black (Oklahoma City, OK).
The statistics from the four full days are as follows: 53 people prayed to receive Christ; 175 people participated in God’s Eternity Quiz; 117 people participated in one or more Bible studies (People Who Knew Jesus); 47 homes were visited (totaling approximately 150 home visits); 33 children – average attendance at VBS. In addition, the team was able to present the gospel to the Mayor, City Council, and Council staff at a City Council Meeting, to the students at an Adult Education Center, to the residents and staff of a Nursing Home, to the hospital staff, and to the hotel staff, as well as at least five times to groups on the streets. Note: The report above demonstrates the potential influence of a volunteer mission team ministering faithfully in a town of 10,000 people with perhaps less than 3% evangelical Christians.
What a glorious challenge before us! Just think what could happen if this region had a CSI Resource Teaching-Training Sending Center and was zoned for missionary focus. Each zone could have an ongoing Baptist International Missionary Institute that could train national leadership in each zone of neighborhoods throughout the region. This process could be repeated time and time again throughout the nations of our world.