Perspectives on the World Christian Movement by Ralph Winter & Steven Hawthorne

Author:Ralph Winter & Steven Hawthorne [Winter, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Missions
Publisher: William Carey Library
Published: 2013-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Filipino Sending

Berting Fernando

Berting Fernando is the National Coordinator of the Philippine Missions Mobilization Movement.

In the past, global missions involvement by the Filipino Church was hindered by the country’s weak economy. We have since realized that for the past three decades, the Lord has been opening doors for Filipinos to work in many countries considered hostile to the gospel. One-tenth of the Filipino population now lives and works in 197 countries. This has resulted in the planting of Filipino churches all around the globe.

In March 2005, Filipino mission agency executives, along with denominational mission leaders, came together to develop a bold, comprehensive plan to raise up hundreds of thousands of tentmakers and missionaries to disciple the least evangelized peoples. This plan seeks to mobilize and equip the Filipino Church, both in the Philippines and all over the world, to establish a viable witness among these peoples. The strategy is twofold: to transform Filipino churches in other countries into frontline mission bases and to encourage Philippine-based churches and denominations to be pro-active in raising tentmakers from their members who are going abroad for work.

In order to meet this challenge of engaging the global Filipino Church, it is also necessary to strengthen and expand existing mission networks.

Missionary trainers and mission mobilizers in the Philippines are coordinating and complementing each other’s ministry through the National Missionary Trainers Network. Parameters have been established to determine the minimum training for individuals to be considered tentmakers. Modular training is being conducted in the Philippines and in an increasing number of countries in coordination with the ministerial fellowships and through denominations in those countries. The training materials are contextualized for the average Filipino working overseas and are designed to be easily reproducible and transferable. Training of trainers is also being done. A special website was created that is designed to keep the Body of Christ informed of various seminars, conferences and missions courses.

Other networks serving the Filipino church are the National Youth Missions Movement, the Kairos Prayer Movers and the Member Care Network. We have also formed religious bloc-specific networks to provide information and training in contextualized ministry: the M2M (Ministry to Muslims), B2B (Bridges to Buddhists) and H4H (Harvesters for Hindus).

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