The Promise of the Open Generation
By Daniel Copeland and Alyce Youngblood | In Barna’s largest generational study to date, we contemplated what it means to minister to and mobilize Gen Z, at a global or local level. The data we’ve gathered on global teens led us to a promising example that teens themselves seem to be setting: to be open.
Inviting Gen Z to Serve
By Amanda Roozeboom | Short-term missions trips that are thoughtfully planned and executed can be an important way to welcome Gen Z into missions.
A Balanced Framework
By Tim Crouch with Mark and Cinda Wood | Teams working in cross-cultural contexts face formidable challenges. The balanced framework provides focus areas to help leaders and teams thrive, achieve mission, sustain their efforts and see vision realized.
Transforming Frames of Marginalization
By John Trotter | To what degree has society’s frame of reference on disability shaped the Church, ministries, and perceptions of who is or isn’t qualified for mission? How do we move people with disabilities from recipients to participants in God’s Mission?
Mobilizing Gen Z – A Biblical Theology
By Kyle Benner | The calling of Simon Peter, as found in Luke 5:1–11, demonstrates Jesus Christ’s recruitment strategy. By studying Jesus’s approach, we can learn principles that can help us increase Gen Z’s engagement in missions.
Go Digital Before It’s Too Late
By Andrew Feng and Nick Wu | Many missions organizations face two significant problems: limited capacity and ineffective stewardship. Embracing a digital transformation is a key to overcoming these challenges. The first digital native generation – Generation Z – can play an essential part in helping organizations enter the digital world.
Do Missions Conferences Matter?
By Evi Rodemann | Missions conferences around the world have played an important part in mobilising young people into long-term missions service. But as we consider ways to mobilise today’s young people – Gen Z – we need to consider tools to measure events that will help improve their long-lasting effectiveness.
Gen Z and Global Missions: Allies or Enemies
Gen Z has several positive and negative characteristics that may affect their willingness and motivation to engage in global missions service. How do we help develop them into allies of global missions rather than enemies?
Three Strategies for Engaging Gen Z in Missions
By Jolene Erlacher | The people who comprise Gen Z in North America are growing up in a post-Christian society. This poses a significant challenge for North American mission agencies which are recruiting the next generation of missionaries. However, by embracing new mobilization strategies, we can seize this opportunity to engage a committed remnant in God’s global mission.
Diffusion of Youth Ministry
By Anthony J. Gryskiewicz | Ministry to teenagers in continental Europe is less developed than in other parts of the world. While Western and Northern Europe report robust youth participation, youth ministry seems underdeveloped in Central and Eastern Europe. Noting that there are global commonalities to youth ministry and how innovation is diffused, a diffusion model of youth ministry could help global workers and local churches to develop and strengthen ministry to teens in continental Europe.