Mission Consultancy

The Mission Department produced a Mission Consultancy process for local churches some years ago, guiding the leadership and whole church through material over three months to help them understand their communities, develop their mission potential and formulate an action plan.  The process is designed to be facilitated by one or two outside ‘accompaniers’ from the association who would continue to be available for advice in implementing the action plan over the following year.  This type of consultancy has been defined as ‘a partnership between church and consultants, in discerning the call of God to a particular church in its context, at a particular time, and in taking steps forward in that mission’.

This Mission Consultancy process has been adopted by the majority of the Associations, albeit with different names and formats.  To access this type of help you should contact the Regional Minister in your area with the responsibility for Mission.  Click here for details:  Mission Network Contacts

During 2011 there will be a range of modules becoming available from the Mission Department that will help churches examine their local mission opportunities, including looking at their crossingplaces.

Mission Files to help you understand your community:

•  Obtaining Demographic Information
•  How to do ... Community Research

Other resources to download to help your church consider its mission strategy:

• Sowing Reaping Keeping Presentation materials to help churches to put into practice the ideas set out in Laurence Singlehurst’s book Sowing, Reaping, Keeping.
• Sowing Reaping Keeping PowerPoint Presentation to accompany the Sowing, Reaping, Keeping Mission File.

Other help for churches

Two organisations led by Baptist Ministers can also help with mission consultancy and developing healthy churches:

• The Entheos Trust  
• Lead Academy