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Member Care Updates Special News--January 2020 Issue 129

Member Care Updates Expanding the global impact of member care Working together for wellbeing and effectiveness Special News--January 2020 Following Jesus Globally The Global Pearl of Great Price Applications for Member Care and Mission The Pearl of Great Price Detail from cover: Global Member Care Volume Two (2013) Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. John 12:26 NIV  Warm greetings! In this Update we feature one item: a short article that we jointly authored, just published online in the Lausanne Global Analysis. In it we distill several of our core perspectives and strategies for staying current and relevant in view of the many new challenges and opportunities for serving Jesus in our world. Following Jesus Globally: Engaging the World through Global Integration --The article is also in French, Spanish, and Portuguese (official translations by the Lausanne Movement). We also link to a copy of the article which has a translation tool for 50 languages (not official translations by the Lausanne Movement). --We list five suggestions at the end of this Update to stimulate discussions and applications of this article for mission and member care. --We plan to host online round tables in 2020 as a way to further interact with colleagues about the themes in this article. Please consider discussing and sharing this Update/article with your colleagues and networks. And join the conversation--consider writing a short comment at the end of the article. Many thanks! See also: --Into the Communities of Unreached Peoples (MC Update, June 2019) --Righteous and Relevant Leaders (MC Update, June 2018) --Global Member Care Model—Seven Spheres (MC Update, February 2017) ---------- Our Special News-Updates 1) promote the wellbeing and effectiveness (WE) of staff and sending groups and 2) support the diversity of colleagues with member care responsibilities. The focus is on the mission sector with applications for/from the overlapping health, development, and humanitarian sectors. Warm greetings from Geneva, Kelly and Michèle       --Share your comments and resources on our MCA Facebook page  --Send us your ideas and resources for future MC Updates MCAresources@gmail.com Featured Resources Following Jesus Globally The Global Pearl of Great Price Applications for Member Care and Mission UN photo (UNRWA) Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk, Syria (January 2014) Global Integration: A framework for actively and responsibly engaging with our world, collaborating locally through globally for God’s glory. For the last 10 years we have been working increasingly across sectors (humanitarian, health, development, peace-security, United Nations) as psychologists in mission. Central to our work has been a simple, strategic framework which we call  Global Integration (GI). GI is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging with our world, collaborating locally through globally for God’s glory. What's in the Article? In Following Jesus Globally, we share our updated description of the GI framework and present the material in terms of three strategic “GI Directions” to carefully and prayerfully consider: --Following Jesus into Humanity Care --Following Jesus with Global Integrity --Following Jesus as Global Integrators. We conclude this short article with a checklist of seven “directional commitments” for engaging in our world strategically and relevantly, locally and globally. The 20+ end notes include many additional perspectives and resources too.  What Does it Mean? Some Applications for Member Care and Mission Following Jesus Globally, like the GI framework itself, is meant to help us forge new relationships and pursue new opportunities for addressing major issues affecting our world and especially the Church-Mission Community’s work among unreached peoples. It supports our efforts for being salt and light for God’s glory; promoting the growth and development of workers in the context of sacrifice, stressful work, and prudent risk; calling upon our best selves--the common sense of our human belonging, identity, and mutual responsibility--as we seek to engage our precarious, perilous, yet precious world as followers of Jesus Christ. Here are five areas of application for the GI Directions emphasized in the article (humanity care, global integrity, global integrators). How can these GI Directions help us to: --Support mission workers and sending groups in their well-being and effectiveness? --Equip mission workers and sending groups with tools and opportunities for their work? --Equip member care colleagues who work with others besides mission staff? --Support colleagues across sectors via materials developed in member care/mission? --Stay informed about and pray for current and crucial issues facing humanity? Notes --For more ideas for applying GI Directions including across sectors, see the Volume 2--Application Section on the website for the Global Member Care book series. --Here is a separate link a copy of the English version which provides a translation tool into 50 languages. These additional translations are separate from the three official-professional translations done for the Lausanne Movement’s Global Analysis (French, Spanish, Portuguese). We note that online translations are helpful yet have limits, as the technical terms and idioms, for example, are not always easily translated or understood.  Member care: Renewing the strengths of our souls

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Member Care Update—December 2017

Special News—1 December 2017

During 2017 we are syncing our CORE MC entries with our monthly MC Updates. Essentially, we'll add a monthly weblog entry that contains brief excerpts from the MC Update for that month. By linking their two strap lines together, the purpose and potential for connecting these two MCA tools becomes clear: "expanding the global impact of member care...reflections, research, and resources for good practice." May these materials encourage and equip you as you endeavor to practice member care well, with character, competence, and compassion.

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The Essential Review
Three Years of Resources and Reflections
(2015-2017 Index)
(preview of the Global Integration Update for December 2017)

Click HERE to access it.

In this summary Update we index the GI Updates from 2015-2017. These 17 Updates both shape and are shaped by the foundational thinking for the global integration framework (defined below). They contain crucial resources and reflections for understanding and engaging with major issues facing our world. We have kept the Index simple. It includes the title, link, and a short description of the content. We encourage you to review the Index and to note the topics (resources and reflections) that are the most relevant for your work.

Global Integration

Actively integrating our lives with global realities 
by connecting relationally and contributing relevantly
on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity,
in light of our integrity & core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, faith-based).

This Update concludes with seven commitments that reflect many of the values and directions that have influenced our development of the global integration framework. Ultimately global integration involves "global integrators" whose lifestyles are marked with personal integrity, relevant skills, and healthy relationships that are leveraged for good. (adapted from the summary entry for the Global Integrators series, CORE Member Care, December 2015)

Warm greetings from Geneva,

Kelly and Michele

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