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This summer, we’re traveling around the U.S. to talk to churches about practical ways for them to get more directly involved in missions by engaging people of all nations in Europe.

Somewhere along the way, the church moved into a more passive role in missions, and started outsourcing missions to para-church organizations and agencies. These days, most churches think their options for missions are sending money or a week-long trip of prayerwalking and tract distribution.

Our goal is to see missional churches engaging people Europe in redemptive relationships.

We think that the Great Commission belongs to the church. Your leadership, service, gifting, and creativity make you perfectly qualified for innovative approaches to sharing life with people from around the world. You strive toward incarnation of the gospel in your local community. You need to be doing that same sort of missional engagement globally.

Europe is the perfect place to connect with people from all over the world, from postmodern Europeans to Muslim immigrants to African refugees. Post-Christian Europe isn’t just a vital mission field; your interaction will give you insight into the coming American reality.

This summer, we’re visiting sixteen cities across the country. We’re asking friends to invite a dozen or so of their friends to meet with us for a few hours to share some of our experience in Europe, and how you might fit in to what God is doing there. The get-togethers will be like informal missions conferences, with lots of practical ides for how to select a people group or city, how to begin to develop a strategy for reaching them, and how to cast that vision for your church

For more information, or if you’re interested in hosting one of our meetings, please check out the “format” page.

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