Provide personal counseling or mentoring for those who are thinking of a missionary vocation. Do not limit this to young people. Most of the remaining neglected fields now need bi-vocational types, which include businessmen, retired people, etc.). Provide for training in:

• incarnational evangelism,
• small group worship,
• culture adaptation (use of typical music and other culturally relevant creative art forms),
• (for fields of restricted access) the skill of discipling leaders behind the scenes,
• church multiplication (forming clusters of tiny house churches in restricted areas),
• integration of community development (mercy) ministries with church planting , where poverty or other acute human suffering requires a holistic approach,
• any other ministries needed for starting and developing churches in their field.

Cooperate with others who can help you and whom you can help.

• Form a permanent missionary team.
• Cooperate with a mission agency with the same objectives that works, or will open work among the people your church has adopted.
• Cooperate with other churches to do this.
• Do not count on short-term teams to start an indigenous movement of church reproduction in a pioneer field. Someone needs to make the commitment simply to go and do what Jesus says to do, regardless of time.

Find in Ephesians 4:11-12 the place of the missionary (apostolic or 'sent one') gift. How should it be used in conjunction with the other gifts mentioned, and for what purpose?

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Course syllabi for use by churches and mission organizations to mobilize missionaries, sending churches, career counselors and bivocational workers are available through the DES menu library.

Prepare a statement of principles (ideas) and standards (performance measures) for each of above training areas.

• Work up a rating scale for each of the performance measures.
• Have both trainers and trainees complete an assessment form on which they rate each performance area.
• Use the same scales to assess actual performance in real ministry situations.
• Let the results serve as measures of mission readiness.

The same scales can be used to survey ministries and missionaries that you currently support financially as you make strategic decisions about continued support. This is not harsh; it is taking seriously the remaining task near the end of the age.