https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:15:15 +0000 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:59:55 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/end-missions First CRC’s Missions Committee Disbands Dateline: September 10, 2020 Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/end-missions Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:59:55 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/subtle-shift-posture-missional-church As we begin to think of the heart and scope of the Gospel and embracing a missional understanding of the church, the ramifications for the local church will be subtle but significant. Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/subtle-shift-posture-missional-church Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:59:04 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/hospitality-missional-church The TV show Cheers was one of my favorites growing up and into college. I am even willing to admit, rather sheepishly, that the character “Norm” was someone I admired and wished I could be. Kevin Schutte https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/hospitality-missional-church Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:54:18 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/expanding-definition-resources Resources are anything without which the common goal cannot be achieved. Think of an airplane flight from Tokyo to Singapore. The one who supplies fuel for most of the trip is no more important than the one who supplies the remainder. Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/expanding-definition-resources Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:56:11 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/what-missional-church The church is sent to proclaim the Gospel in a world that has sinned against God and is deserving of judgment, but the church is also sent to a world in which all of humanity, indeed all of creation, suffer from the consequences of sin. Kevin Schutte https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/what-missional-church Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:08:37 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/can-rich-expatriate-missionary-disciple-poor-muslim This paper comes out of personal experience and observation of missionaries of many nationalities working with West Africans who are Muslim Background Believers, in several Sahelian, francophone, predominantly Muslim countries (Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Guinea.) Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/can-rich-expatriate-missionary-disciple-poor-muslim Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:04:20 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/toward-authentic-partnership-how-north-south-ngo Authentic partnership is characterized by “mutually enabling, inter-dependent interaction with shared intentions,” which implies, “inter alia, a joint commitment to long-term interaction, shared responsibility for achievement, reciprocal obligation, equality, mutuality and balance of po Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/toward-authentic-partnership-how-north-south-ngo Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:00 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/bread-stone-or-snake-how-globalization-has-complicated Should you do to others what you would have them do to you? Mary Crickmore https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/bread-stone-or-snake-how-globalization-has-complicated Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:34:39 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/scottish-perspective-new-world-communion-reformed Squirrels and chipmunks scurried underfoot. Birds sang brightly in the beautiful trees. Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/scottish-perspective-new-world-communion-reformed Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:32:17 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/local-ministry-clusters-learning-organizations Almost 20 years ago now, an MIT professor named Peter Senge, wrote the book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990).  Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/local-ministry-clusters-learning-organizations Mon, 24 May 2010 09:58:24 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/forming-cluster If you read the history of the early church from the Apostles to the Fathers to the Monastic Movements, you see the power of ministry clusters emerging in and out of close geographic proximities. Randy Rowland https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/forming-cluster Fri, 14 May 2010 12:51:17 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/underlying-principles-clustersministry-multiplication Different cultures, generations, personalities and contextualized needs in a world of growing diversity call us away from prescribing models and toward the naming of underlying principles which describe how the mission of Jesus Christ can be advanced. Randy Rowland https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/underlying-principles-clustersministry-multiplication Sat, 01 May 2010 13:16:35 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/what-cluster We are beginning to dream and talk about ministry clusters within the CRCNA. Perhaps it is good to take some time and space to define what we mean when we say "cluster." I would offer a working definition stating that Randy Rowland https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/what-cluster Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:10:08 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/mission-monday I had the privilege of attending a traditional Christian Reformed Church in my youth. Some of my earliest memories of our time as a family at church were the special missionary Sundays. Kevin Schutte https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/mission-monday Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:50:46 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/across-street-across-sea “Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”   Two Nicaraguan missionaries shared a version of this Philip Yancey quote with our church team as they walked us through a seminar that they normally provide to Christian leaders-in-training.   Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/across-street-across-sea Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:40:52 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/dimensions-global-mission The Gospel, the commands (and the example) of Jesus Christ have compelled the Church toward mission for nearly 2000 years. Although the task is not nearly complete, its dimensions, methods and intermediate goals have changed dramatically in recent years. Steve Van Zanen https://network.crcna.org/topic/church-strategy-mission/global-mission/dimensions-global-mission Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:17:49 +0000