Author: Eldon Porter has served with SIM for 25 years, the last four as the Deputy International Director for the Americas. He currently serves as a Consultant for Global Engagement with Missio Nexus and COMIBAM. Eldon hosts the Linking Global Voices website. | Source: OMF Mission Round Table Journal Volume 11, Issue 3 (September–December 2016): pp. 4–9.
Partnering with the Majority World in the Global Paradigm
Summary
In this article for OMF’s Mission Roundtable Journal, Eldon Porter looks at what has caused the paradigm shift in missions and the growing impact on traditional mission agencies. He looks at four macro issues that are redefining how missions is done and the new formal and informal mission structures. Eldon goes on to explore the challenges facing today’s mission agency as they seek to become more collaborative and partnership-friendly. Eldon concludes with recommendations for traditional mission agencies that can help them begin the transformation to globally friendly mission organizations.
Key Ideas
- Trends driving the change in existing paradigms
- New Mission Structures
- The Strategic Role of Networks
- Becoming Globally Friendly + 3 Critical issues
- Trends in Becoming Globally Friendly
- Recommendations