• Caleb Project (www.calebproject.org) "offers a wide array of tools and services that connect individuals, churches and other ministries to God's work among unreached peoples."

• ACMC (Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment, www.acmc.org ) is focused on serving local churches; their vision is "to be used of God to see every church on planet earth actively engaged in declaring God's glory among the nations."

• AIMS (Accelerating International Mission Strategies, www.aims.org) is dedicated to "challenging the church to take the gospel where it's never been proclaimed." They offer seven different seminars designed to mobilize the Church, "helping them realize their role in the Great Commission."

• The Finishers Project (www.finishers.org/core.html ) focuses on serving Christians in mid-life. A partnership of dozens of mission agencies, Finishers provides information and a well-developed process for discovering ministry opportunities in world missions-short-term, part-time, or as a second-career.

• The US Center for World Mission (www.uscwm.org) has inspired, launched and supported innumerable missions mobilization efforts during the past few decades. With its slogan, "Calling the Church to Reach All of the Unreached Peoples," the Mobilization Division "works to assist Christians, churches, pastors, and church mission committees to help the global church of Christ participate intelligently in completing the missionary task.

• The Student Mobilization site (www.stumo.org) is focused on mobilizing college students for missions. The site gives you direct access to the 2,800 unreached peoples prayer profiles prepared by Bethany World Prayer Center a few years ago. Another ministry is The Traveling Team (www.thetravelingteam.org), which exists "to glorify God by educating and equipping college students to become World Christians who fulfill their responsibility in World Evangelization."

• Mission ONE (Overseas National Evangelism: www.mission1.org) is dedicated to "mobilizing the Church for partnership with national missionaries, focusing on unreached people groups, and serving the poor and oppressed."

Missions Mobilization Resources

• The RightNow Campaign (www. rightnow.org) "encourages and guides young adults towards adventurous, life-changing opportunities to make a difference in the world."

• The AD2000 & Beyond Movement (now officially closed) still provides excellent resources via their Web site (www.ad2000.org).

• Professor Howard Culbertson of Southern Nazarene University has assembled a great set of missions mobilization resources on his Web site, including brief reviews of over 150 missions videos and movies (home. snu.edu/-hculbert.fs/resource.htm).

• World Christian Video Directory (christianvideos.org/missionvideos. html) has brief descriptions of short mobilization productions from a variety of organizations.

• At the William Carey Library site (www.gospelcom.net/wclbooks), you can browse and search for hundreds of missions-related titles, from over seventy-five publishers, all at discount prices.

• For missions theatre, try the Missions Script index at the DramaShare site
  (www. dramashare.org/missionsscripts.html). They are dedicated to providing royalty-free Christian drama theatre resources, including full scripts of dozens of great missions dramas.

• The YWAM site (www.ywam.org) links to missions arts and drama resources for short-term missions trips and more.

• Also see the Student Mobilization Centre
  (www. haystack.org), a ministry of YWAM's University of the Nations, whose purpose is "to serve student organizations, mission agencies and local churches by helping ignite a new international, broad-structured, and inclusive student mobilization movement like that of the Student Volunteer Movement."

• Don't overlook the Web sites of the specific mission sending agency and/or denomination with which you may be associated. (www.cogwm.org) These sites often provide excellent mobilization materials, as well as resources for missions conferences and profiles of available missions speakers.

Seminars, Conferences and Events

• InterVarsity's trien­nial Urbana conference (www.urbana.org) is the patriarchal US missions mobilization event for college-age youth. Their Web site offers a rich array of personal testimonies, "tools to help you think critically about the world," a database of service opportunities, discussion groups, and links to other mobilization resources.

• Canadian missions mobilization is a series of MissionFest2 conferences held more or less annually in key cities: Toronto (www.missionfest.org), Vancouver (www.mfest.bc.ca), Edmonton (www. mfest.ab.ca), Winnipeg (www.mfest. mb.ca), and Montreal (www.mefq.ca).

• Antioch Network (www.antioch network.org) is dedicated to "empow­ering churches to reach the nations." They host numerous events through­out the year, including the Unhindered conference, "designed for the emerging leader by emerging leaders."

• The US Center for World Mission's Perspectives Study Program (www. perspectives.org) is a fifteen-week discipleship course "where you'll discover what God is doing around the world and consider your part in His purposes."

• Vision For The Nations
  (www. gospelcom.net/wclbooks/visionforthenations.html) is an excellent video series developed by the US Center for World Mission. This thirteen-week curriculum designed for Sunday School and Bible Study settings, introduces missions from four perspectives: biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic.

• Day of Discovery (www.dayof discovery.org) is a one-day seminar by Body Builders, "designed to help Christians discover what God is doing in the world, why He wants you to participate and what is now needed to reach the nations."

• At the Unveiling Glory web site (www.gospelcom.net/unveilinglory). Unveiling GLORY offers a fast-action, hard-hitting, humorous seminar that will point in a fresh way to the glory of God.... helping Christians see God's heart for all nations from Genesis to Revelation."

• World Thrust (www.worldthrust.org) is "an international ministry serv­ing as a catalyst to help pastors and church leaders mobilize the local church toward a more effective, personal involvement in taking the good news of Jesus Christ to the whole world."

Journals, Newsletters, and Online Discussions

• Brigada Today is an e-mail newsletter from Doug Lucas, head of Team Expansion. At the Web site (www.brigada.org), you can sign up for the free weekly newsletter and browse through the hundreds of back issues.

• Caleb Project offers two Mission Mobilizers E-Zines "designed to send you about two messages per week to encourage, equip, and network you in mission mobilization ministry."

• Brigada-Orgs-MissionMobilizers
  (www.calebproject.org/bomm/ bomm.html) is "an electronic forum where anyone interested in mobilizing Christians to complete world evangelization can exchange questions & answers, testimonies, resources, news, needs, and addresses having to do with world mission." Another E-Zine, Brigada-Orgs-Mission Mobilizers-Newsbrief
  (www.caleb project.org/bomm/bomnews.html), is "an electronic forum where Christians can exchange news having to do with world mission."

• My Global Impact (www.myglobal impact.com), harnesses the Internet to build a dynamic discussion commu­nity of students (and others) commit­ted to missions. Their goal is "to form small groups of peers in similar life circumstances, with similar missions interests, and with fledgling missions commitment in order to help one another stick with their commitments, overcome life obstacles, and find their place of strategic deployment."

• Mission Frontiers (www.mission frontiers.org) is the US Center for World Mission's regular bulletin, "dedi­cated to a church for every people."

• The Global Prayer Digest (www.global-prayer-digest.org) is the daily devotional booklet produced by the US Center for World Mission and centers on prayer for unreached peoples.

• Another option to spur daily prayer for missions is the online version of Operation World (www. operationworld.org), the global prayer guide by Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk.

• Mission Network News Online (www.gospelcom.net/mnn) is "a missions news service dedicated to keeping Christians informed on evangelical mission activity around the world."

• Retirement With A Purpose
  (www. retirementwithapurpose.com) is an online magazine, with Campus Crusade for Christ roots, ministering to retirees. It "provides resources and opportunities to help communicate the message of God's love and forgiveness throughout the world."

• Evangelical Missions Quarterly (http://bgc.gospelcom.net/emis/emqpg.htm) offers insightful articles on mobilization.

Information in this capsule is from Evangelical Missions Quarterly’s article: Capturing the Next Generation: Missions Mobilization Resources on the Web by Scott Moreau and Mike O’Rear. These links and their content are not the responsibility of Church of God World Missions.