Ⅰ. Mission
MISSION OBJECTIVE # 1: To revive the concept of worldwide mission and sacrifice for mission as a way of life involving not only pastors, but every church member, young and old, in the joy of witnessing for Christ and making disciples.
| Key Performance Indicators |
Primary Department Cooperation Department |
Specific Plans |
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| 1-1) Total Member Involvement: Increased number of church members participating in both personal and public evangelistic outreach initiatives with a goal of Total Member Involvement (TMI). |
SSPM Youth Ministry Children Ministry Health Ministry Bible Correspond School Women’s Ministry |
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| 1-2) Missionaries Speak: Frontline missionaries speak at major camp meetings and at other large gatherings |
Ministerial SSPM YM |
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| 1-4)Children morning devotional books: Create and make available age-appropriate mission-focused morning devotional books aimed at each grade level of elementary education. |
Educational Foundation CHM |
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| 1-5) Produce readings on mission for teens: GC Education, Children’s Ministries, Health Ministries, Youth Ministries, and Office of Adventist Mission collaborate in producing readings on mission for Adventist children and teenagers, made available in print, braille, audiobooks, and digital media, as appropriate and as budgets allow. |
EDU CHM HEA YM SSPM Internet Ministry Publishing Ministry Spirit of Prophecy |
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| 1-7) Improve retention: Improved retention rates of audited membership globally. |
SSPM YM CHM |
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Mission Objective 2: To strengthen and diversify Adventist outreach in large cities, across the 10/40 Window, among unreached and under-reached people groups, and to non-Christian religions.
| Key Performance Indicators |
Primary Department Cooperation Department |
Specific Plans |
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| 2-1) Church planting: A worshipping group is established in each country of the 10/40 Window where there currently is no Seventh-day Adventist presence. | SSPM |
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| 2-2) Increase in the number of new believers: Each conference, mission, and region in the 10/40 Window achieves a demonstrable increase in the number of new believers. |
SSPM YM CHM WM HEA BCS |
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| 2-3) Mission for urban areas: Demonstrable increase in total members and congregations in all urban areas of one million people or more. |
SSPM YM HEA CHM WM |
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| 2-4) Center of influence: At least one Center of Influence operates in each urban area of one million people or more. |
SSPM HEA WC WM |
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| 2-7) Multicultural mission: Each division identifies all significant immigrant/refugee (multicultural) populations in their territories, has initiatives in place to reach them, and reports annually to the Global mission Issues Committee on progress in reaching them. |
SSPM ADRA PARL |
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| 2-12) Conduct city-wide evangelistic meetings: Conduct city-wide evangelistic meetings in 10 cities of one million or more. | SSPM |
(Refer to NSD KPIs)
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| 2-14) North Korea Mission: Support, along with KUC, reaching out as many people in Pyeongyang as soon as the country is opened to Adventists. |
SSPM OM |
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| 2-15) Church Plating: Organize 40 new churches and 100 new companies or groups. | SSPM |
(Refer to NSD KPIs)
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Mission Objective 3: To make developing resources for mission to non-Christian religions and belief systems a high priority.
| Key Performance Indicators |
Primary Department Cooperation Department |
Specific Plans |
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| 3-1) Interfaith dialogs: Each division, in cooperation with its organizational units and with the assistance of the Global Mission Centers and GC Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, undertakes interfaith dialogs | PARL |
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| 3-4) Evangelistic approaches for a post COVID-19: Develop resources and new evangelistic approaches for a post COVID-19 world. |
SSPM All Departments |
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Mission Objective 4: To strengthen Seventh-day Adventist institutions in upholding freedom, wholistic health, and hope through Jesus, and restoring in people the image of God.
| Key Performance Indicators |
Primary Department Cooperation Department |
Specific Plans |
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| 4-1) Mission Assistance from Institutions: Mission initiatives in the 10/40 Window and large urban areas receive assistance from institutions elsewhere in the world. | Vice President |
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| 4-2) Increase the proportion of missiologists teaching mission: Adventist tertiary institutions increase the proportion of missiologists teaching mission, all of whom are faithful to biblical missional principles, Adventist educated, and endorsed by IBMTE |
Ministerial Executive Director |
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| 4-3) Institution IWG: Each institution reports to its board or governing committee on how it will achieve selected objectives and KPIs of the I Will Go plan. | Vice President |
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| 4-4) Train missional small group leaders. |
SSPM Ministerial BCS WM |
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