How can your church mobilise people?
Tim Matthews, our Mobilisation Director, carried out a survey with local church leaders to find out what has helped them mobilise people for mission.
AIM Location: United Kingdom & Europe
Ministry in the United Kingdom & Europe ranges from being a part of mobilising offices, to teaching in Bible colleges to being involved in work among the African Diaspora across the continent.
In 2015 more than one million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe. Many are fleeing the war in Syria, or escaping the aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there has also been a steep increase in the amount of migrants from Africa. Some are moving for economic reasons, some are escaping political oppression, and others are seeking to avoid religious persecution. Whilst illegal migration makes up a large proportion of those migrants entering Europe, Africans are also here as students or as international employees, responding to the demand that Europe has for both skilled and unskilled labour. Ultimately, thousands of Africans are journeying every month, in search of work and a better life.
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What is mobilising?
Our heart is to see Christ-centred churches among all African peoples and our priority is to go to the people groups still unreached with the gospel. Tim Matthews, our Mobilisation Director, introduces us to what mobilisation looks like in the local church.
Short Term – Diaspora Apprenticeship in Rome
Do you want to train in cross-cultural mission in Europe?
Seeing doors open in Montreal
“I joined a team working among the African diaspora; people who have arrived as strangers and even refugees, and who are in great need of knowing the love of Jesus. The task is immense, but the Lord reminds me that he asks us to come to him with our five loaves and two fishes. It is he who multiplies, he who bears fruit according to his grace.”
My biggest praise
Political instability in Africa has meant that South Africa is one of the countries where many refugees go. Zara* works with a community from East Africa where most women do not speak English, yet their children go to the local schools.
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