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Diaspora people live in cities around the world for any number of reasons: the diplomatic core, business, missions, tourism, exile, trafficking and the list goes on and on. Within the global diaspora is a group of people that have faith and an even smaller group that desire faith. They come from very different ethnic backgrounds. What does it mean to be an International Church that is a soft landing place and a rocket launching pad for people migrating all over the globe?
We will investigate and demonstrate that God is using the International Church as a catalyst to reach so many different people in so many different countries. MICN values the dynamic interplay between International Church leaders representing their respective ministry contexts. Your experience and voice is valued. You will also have opportunity to hear from some very unique International Church leaders. Plan to join us!
The 7th annual MICN conference will be from April 26-30, 2010 in beautiful Penang Malaysia. We will meet on a gorgeous tropical beach to refresh, retool and reengage with the awesome challenge of developing the ministry of the International Church. You can register on line at www.regonline.com/micn2010.
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MICN is a growing network of expatriate international church leaderswho desire to be missional.
MiSSIONAL is our journey. From sending a few, to all sent together. From distant consumers of culture, to incarnational and critical participants in culture. From church for the churched, to church as an active Kingdom presence in each culture. From formulaic and institutionalized programs to servant relationships of word, deed, sign and prayer.
INTERNATIONAL is our composition. We intend to facilitate creative thinking in leaders who are needed to enable International Churches (IC’s) to be active participants in God’s mission in multicultural, national, and expatriate contexts. There are IC’s from fourteen different nations represented among us this year. There are planters of IC's and leaders of IC’s of over 1200 members, and everything in-between. Each person brings varying perspectives and unique ministry contexts.
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Acts chapters 11 and 13 tell the story of the church at Antioch. That church reached Jews (expats in Antioch), Greek-speaking Syrians (locals in the city), plus Europeans and Asians (unreached peoples in those days).
It was missional. It was international. It was a model church.
Today, international churches are uniquely positioned to impact the most unreached countries of the world.
MICN is dedicated to catalyzing international churches to become missional. |
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Starting Churches Missionally |
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By Neil Tibbott (A4-size pdf version 48k, Letter-size pdf version 48k)
(Neil spoke at the 2004 MICN Conference in Jakarta) I started my church planting ministry in Southern California during the late 80s. Our association of churches started many new plants by gathering people with shopping mall style "Grand Opening" worship services. But some of our least-Christian, totally unchurched friends wouldn't come. For them church was a foreign activity even though Jesus had become familiar. This caused me to re-think how to plant new churches in terms of missional behavior. I've found three categories of activity that describe what this missional behavior looks like: submerge, emerge, and converge. |
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