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06 Missional Awareness

The BSM Director must think like a modern missionary concerning the campus, the community, and the world. The objective is to develop each believer into a global Christian. The goal is assisting students to discover how God’s Spirit leads the Church in reaching the world for Christ.


The Givens for Missional Awareness

  • Biblical Basis: 
  • Pacesetter: Supporting Go Now Missions as the priority sending tool for Texas BSM.
  • Spiritual Focus: Praying for the "Laborers for the Harvest".
  • Equipping: Recruiting and training students to serve locally and globally. Conduct Go Now Missions local interviews in the Fall.
  • Incarnational: Lead at least one mission trip per BSM staff member.
Missional Awareness Tasks for New Workers
    1. Complete the Bible Study, The Holy Spirit’s Work - A Biblical Basis for Missions & Ministry by Rick Spencer.
    2. Teach students through Bible study and practical experience about the role of the Holy Spirit in all missions endeavors. At least two programs during the fall semester must center on missions.
    3. Read the Local BSM Missions Timeline by Brenda Sanders
    4. Coordinate a Student Missions’ Strategy in conjunction with the Texas Baptist Student Missions Go Now program involving local development, fundraising, committee development and sending/supporting summer and semester missions. Prepare a strategy by the following July Staff Retreat.
    5. Develop a Student Missions’ Strategy involving the team approach to 1) determine places of service, 2) decide what students are “called out” to go and 3) implement the mission opportunities. This strategy varies from campus to campus; however, your team should consist of both students and members of the campus/church community. (For example, a local pastor, three students, the Director and one Sunday school teacher.) Plans for this team may start anytime but needs to be fully developed before the fall of the following year.
    6. Contact Brenda Sanders to spend time with you and / or students on campus to discuss a mission’s strategy. Enlist Brenda to come to your campus before March.
    7. Coordinate one mission trip with students during the first year, including several non-student adults from churches.
    8. Attend and participate in the Texas Baptist Student Missions Go Now Interview Weekend in February.
    Missional Awareness Reading
    Top Reading Recommendations
    1. God’s Heart for the Nations by Jeff Lewis
    2. Live Life on Purpose by Claude Hickman
    3. How to be a World-Class Christian by Paul Borthwick
    Further Reading Recommendations
    1. An account of the 1940's youth revival movement that we've all heard about.
    2. Ask a Missionary: Time-Tested Answers from Those Who've Been There by John McVay
    3. Changing the Mind of Missions by James F. Engel
    4. CIA - The World Factbook
    5. Cross Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility by Duan Elmore
    6. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture by Michael Frost
    7. Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore
    8. Short-Term Missions Workbook: From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens by Tim Dearborn
    9. Six Dangerous Questions to Transform Your View of the World by Paul Borthwick
    10. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Alan Hirsch
    11. The Shaping of Things to Come by Alan Hirsch
    12. Third Culture Missions – Thoughts from The Monkey and the Fish by John Pearce
    13. When Helping Hurts by Corbett & Fikkert
    Additional Missional Awareness Helps
          1. Brenda Sanders
            • Brenda is our Texas BSM Go Now Missions Consultant. She is here to help you with missions on and for your campus. Find her contact info here.
          2. Go Now Missions Website 
            • All Go Now Missions forms, info, guidelines, applications, etc. are located at gonowmissions.com under "Staff". If you cannot log in, contact the Go Now office at 817-277-4077.
          3. Fundraising
            1. 8 Ideas for Missions Fundraising by John Pearce
            2. Count Your Blessings
            3. Fundraising Can Be Life-Changing
          4. Recruiting
            1. Local BSM Missions Timeline by Brenda Sanders
            2. Coke or Christ by Brenda Sanders
            3. Ideas to Encourage Recruit Students to Serve as a Go Now Missionary
          5. Training
            1. Planning to Train & Support Your Missionaries with Marcy Martinez
            2. Preparing Your Students for a Missional Summer Experience by Nick Howard
            3. Preparing Your Students to GO with Ben Edfeldt & Rebecca Hernandez
            4. What is Missional Living by Brenda Sanders

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