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Do you ever get frustrated with the church/agency relationship? Take a listen to today's episode as Dave talks with Missions Pastor, Randy Jumper from First North Little Rock Church. Randy unpacks what he calls, With-ing, a concept that does missions together and goes beyond partnership. He expounds on keeping the local church as the main driver of missions without the church having a self-centered, self-fulfilling missiological strategy. You'll learn why missionary re-entry training is more essential than ever and why mission agencies should consider hiring non-missionaries for agency leadership roles. Specifically, Dave asked Randy the following questions:org  In your article, you write that "The church views itself as a 'with-ing' partner rather than a sending partner." Can you explain that a little bit? What factors have influenced this shift to “with-ing"? Are there any negative implications of shifting from a sending mindset to a with-ing mindset? Randy, in your article, you mention some suggestions for denominational sending agencies. Can you share some of those with us? What are some ways missionaries can partner better with churches?  What are some suggestions for churches in partnering with missionaries and sending agencies?  Show Notes:  First North Little Rock Church Latest Issue of the Missionary Mobilization Journal  Assemblies of God World Missions Barna Report, The Connected Generation  Purchase - The Barna Report, The Connected Generation River Valley Church Meshed Young Adult Ministry Connect with Randy Jumper  Email - rjumper@firstnlr.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rjumper Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/randyjumper/  Trinity Bible College and Graduate School  The Missionary Mobilization Podcast is a resource for Christian leaders who want to increase the number of missionaries around the world. Our goal is to equip and encourage missions mobilizers and missions pastors for greater Kingdom impact. (The views expressed on the Missionary Mobilization Podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the Center for Missionary Mobilization and Retention) If you have questions or ideas for a show, contact us here: hello@missionarymobilization.org

Do you ever get frustrated with the church/agency relationship? Take a listen to today's episode as Dave talks with Missions Pastor, Randy Jumper from First North Little Rock Church. Randy unpacks what he calls, With-ing, a concept that does missions together and goes beyond partnership. He expounds on keeping the local church as the main driver of missions without the church having a self-centered, self-fulfilling missiological strategy. You'll learn why missionary re-entry training is more essential than ever and why mission agencies should consider hiring non-missionaries for agency leadership roles. Specifically, Dave asked Randy the following questions:org <ol> <li>In your article, you write that "The church views itself as a 'with-ing' partner rather than a sending partner." Can you explain that a little bit?</li> <li>What factors have influenced this shift to “with-ing"?</li> <li>Are there any negative implications of shifting from a sending mindset to a with-ing mindset?</li> <li>Randy, in your article, you mention some suggestions for denominational sending agencies. Can you share some of those with us?</li> <li>What are some ways missionaries can partner better with churches? </li> <li>What are some suggestions for churches in partnering with missionaries and sending agencies?</li> </ol> Show Notes: <ul> <li><a href="https://firstnlr.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">First North Little Rock Church</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.missionarymobilization.org/journal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latest Issue of the Missionary Mobilization Journal</a> </li> <li><a href="https://agwm.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Assemblies of God World Missions</a></li> <li><a href="https://theconnectedgeneration.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barna Report, The Connected Generation</a></li> <li><a href="https://shop.barna.com/products/the-connected-generation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Purchase - The Barna Report, The Connected Generation</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.rivervalley.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">River Valley Church</a></li> <li><a href="https://youngadultsinministry.godaddysites.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meshed Young Adult Ministry</a></li> <li>Connect with Randy Jumper</li> <ul> <li>Email - <a href="mailto:rjumper@firstnlr.com">rjumper@firstnlr.com</a></li> <li>Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rjumper" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/rjumper</a></li> <li>Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/randyjumper/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/randyjumper/</a></li> </ul> <li><a href="https://www.trinitybiblecollege.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trinity Bible College and Graduate School</a></li> </ul> The Missionary Mobilization Podcast is a resource for Christian leaders who want to increase the number of missionaries around the world. Our goal is to equip and encourage missions mobilizers and missions pastors for greater Kingdom impact. (The views expressed on the Missionary Mobilization Podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the <a href="https://www.missionarymobilization.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Center for Missionary Mobilization and Retention</a>) If you have questions or ideas for a show, contact us here: hello@missionarymobilization.org

Church and Missions Partnerships with Randy Jumper

Pastor Randy Jumper serves as the young adult pastor at First Assembly in North Little Rock, Arkansas! NXT YA/UNITE is a place where young adults inNorth Little Rock come together for a weekly service and grow in Christ together. He has over 20 years of experience in young adult ministry.   Here's an article Pastor Randy wrote to help those who are new to young adult ministry or might be starting something new:    I'm excited that you are going to be helping reach young adults!  You'll find it to be an exciting time of ministry and fun!  I know I love it.   A couple resources to start with.  Check out these websites:   Youngadults.ag.org  go down to the resources pages.  There are several articles we've written to help start and grow a young adult ministry   Facebook - become a young adult facebook member.  Find the links on the youngadults website. On the Resources page, under leadership, click Building the Ministry.  It’s a great resource for information!   Books you might want to consider reading:   College Ministry from Scratch by Chuck Bomar and College ministry 101 by the same author.   Practical Young adult Ministry from Group Publishing.   Lost and Found by Ed Stetzer   Sustainable Young Adult Ministry by Mark DeVries and Scott Pontier   Where do you start?  Most people will tell you relationships, discussion based teaching, and other basic info.  All that is true and important parts, but if you are like me, you want something to "do."     I know I need to be open to young adults, pray for the Holy Spirit to work in young adults, build meaningful relationships with young adults, etc...but what do I "do" to do that?  If I were you, I start with two simple steps:   Step One:  Make 5 lists.   Yep, get a piece of paper and a pen out and make some lists (OK, turn your laptop since nobody uses pens and paper anymore).  I regularly make some lists when starting a new area of ministry with young adults.  They are simple:   List 1:  Who are our young adults? Write down the names of all the young adults currently in your church and/or influence.  Your pastor may need to help you.  The size of your church will impact this list.  If you have a database system your church uses to record attendance, get help from it.  Because of our church size, we narrow it to young adults 17 - 30 and who have attended at least 2 times in the last year.  We annually go through this list.  But it started with a piece of paper and a pen writing down the names of real people we want to minister to and with.   List 2:  What is our church doing with young adults now? Don't write "nothing"!  You might be surprised. Start asking questions about what is going on in your church. Look at List 1 and see where YA's are now! I promise you they are there and already active in some place. Are young adults from list one Sunday school teachers for kids? Youth sponsors?  In the choir? Is there a small group for them?  Maybe a class? Do the YA's go out to eat every Sunday after church - do they sit together in the sanctuary? Are they on the Sunday worship team?  My guess is that at least 1 young adult is doing something, somewhere at your church.  This will help you better leverage them and others for future involvement and understand who is involved and who is a leader.  You might have an organic group of YA's already together, you just need to connect with them and mobilize them.   List 3:  What do you and your pastor want to see developed? What is your assignment?  Is it growing the church?  Evangelizing young adults in the community? Keeping your current young adults?  Providing fun activities only?  Discipleship only? Starting a Sunday school class? Starting a special service? If the answer to all those questions is a yes!  Then then narrow it down for what you want to accomplish in the first 3 months, first 6 months and then the first year.  Set an agenda for what you both are wanting to do for the kingdom.  When you know your assignment, you'll know the direction to take to fulfill that assignment.  Make sure you and the church leaders are on the same page.  There is nothing worse than achieving your goal - only to find out it was the wrong goal.   List 4:  Who is on your team? You'll need several people, especially some young adults from list 1, to join you in launching this ministry.  Young adults need ministered WITH, not necessarily ministered TO.  Get buy in and recruit some young adults and other people to help you do this and do this well.  I'd say get as many as possible on this team.  If possible I like the number 5 (notice the 5 lists!).  Five people is a good size team to manage and lead.  What if we only have 5 young adults to start with....no problem, use the 5 of them as leaders to start your group.   List 5: What is going to happen for the next 6 months   Take all this and build a game plan.  The President of the United States maps the first 100 days.  Most NFL football teams script the first quarter and even first half of football plays they are going to run. You do the same.  Script what you'll do for the next 6 months at least, and then work your way backwards with planning, recruitment and involvement. Script what is going to happen with young adults every week for the next 6 months. Some weeks you'll have more than others, maybe even no scheduled events or activities, but do something every week to minister to young adults (maybe all you do that week is Facebook every young adult in your church and tell them they matter to you!)   If you want to send me any of this to look through and offer my suggestions - not sure they'll be any good, but I'll try.     BONUS:  Change the Way You Eat   This isn't diet advice, its ministry advice.  Never eat alone if at all possible.  Every Sunday possible have a young adult over to your house for lunch or dinner.  Go out to eat with a young adult.  Go get coffee with them on campus.  I can't think of the last time a week went by and I was not eating with a young adult.

Pastor Randy Jumper serves as the young adult pastor at First Assembly in North Little Rock, Arkansas! NXT YA/UNITE is a place where young adults inNorth Little Rock come together for a weekly service and grow in Christ together. He has over 20 years of experience in young adult ministry.  Here's an article Pastor Randy wrote to help those who are new to young adult ministry or might be starting something new:  I'm excited that you are going to be helping reach young adults!  You'll find it to be an exciting time of ministry and fun!  I know I love it. A couple resources to start with.  Check out these websites: <a href="http://youngadults.ag.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youngadults.ag.org</a>  go down to the resources pages.  There are several articles we've written to help start and grow a young adult ministry Facebook - become a young adult facebook member.  Find the links on the youngadults website. On the Resources page, under leadership, click Building the Ministry.  It’s a great resource for information! Books you might want to consider reading: <ol><li>College Ministry from Scratch by Chuck Bomar and College ministry 101</li> </ol>by the same author. <ol><li>Practical Young adult Ministry from Group Publishing.</li> </ol> <ol><li>Lost and Found by Ed Stetzer</li> </ol> <ol><li>Sustainable Young Adult Ministry by Mark DeVries and Scott Pontier</li> </ol> Where do you start?  Most people will tell you relationships, discussion based teaching, and other basic info.  All that is true and important parts, but if you are like me, you want something to "do."   I know I need to be open to young adults, pray for the Holy Spirit to work in young adults, build meaningful relationships with young adults, etc...but what do I "do" to do that?  If I were you, I start with two simple steps: Step One:  Make 5 lists. Yep, get a piece of paper and a pen out and make some lists (OK, turn your laptop since nobody uses pens and paper anymore).  I regularly make some lists when starting a new area of ministry with young adults.  They are simple: List 1:  Who are our young adults? Write down the names of all the young adults currently in your church and/or influence.  Your pastor may need to help you.  The size of your church will impact this list.  If you have a database system your church uses to record attendance, get help from it.  Because of our church size, we narrow it to young adults 17 - 30 and who have attended at least 2 times in the last year.  We annually go through this list.  But it started with a piece of paper and a pen writing down the names of real people we want to minister to and with. List 2:  What is our church doing with young adults now? Don't write "nothing"!  You might be surprised. Start asking questions about what is going on in your church. Look at List 1 and see where YA's are now! I promise you they are there and already active in some place. Are young adults from list one Sunday school teachers for kids? Youth sponsors?  In the choir? Is there a small group for them?  Maybe a class? Do the YA's go out to eat every Sunday after church - do they sit together in the sanctuary? Are they on the Sunday worship team?  My guess is that at least 1 young adult is doing something, somewhere at your church.  This will help you better leverage them and others for future involvement and understand who is involved and who is a leader.  You might have an organic group of YA's already together, you just need to connect with them and mobilize them. List 3:  What do you and your pastor want to see developed? What is your assignment?  Is it growing the church?  Evangelizing young adults in the community? Keeping your current young adults?  Providing fun activities only?  Discipleship only? Starting a Sunday school class? Starting a special service? If the answer to all those questions is a yes!  Then then narrow it down for what you want to accomplish in the first 3 months, first 6 months and then the first year.  Set an agenda for what you both are wanting to do for the kingdom.  When you know your assignment, you'll know the direction to take to fulfill that assignment.  Make sure you and the church leaders are on the same page.  There is nothing worse than achieving your goal - only to find out it was the wrong goal. List 4:  Who is on your team? You'll need several people, especially some young adults from list 1, to join you in launching this ministry.  Young adults need ministered WITH, not necessarily ministered TO.  Get buy in and recruit some young adults and other people to help you do this and do this well.  I'd say get as many as possible on this team.  If possible I like the number 5 (notice the 5 lists!).  Five people is a good size team to manage and lead.  What if we only have 5 young adults to start with....no problem, use the 5 of them as leaders to start your group. List 5: What is going to happen for the next 6 months Take all this and build a game plan.  The President of the United States maps the first 100 days.  Most NFL football teams script the first quarter and even first half of football plays they are going to run. You do the same.  Script what you'll do for the next 6 months at least, and then work your way backwards with planning, recruitment and involvement. Script what is going to happen with young adults every week for the next 6 months. Some weeks you'll have more than others, maybe even no scheduled events or activities, but do something every week to minister to young adults (maybe all you do that week is Facebook every young adult in your church and tell them they matter to you!) If you want to send me any of this to look through and offer my suggestions - not sure they'll be any good, but I'll try. BONUS:  Change the Way You Eat This isn't diet advice, its ministry advice.  Never eat alone if at all possible.  Every Sunday possible have a young adult over to your house for lunch or dinner.  Go out to eat with a young adult.  Go get coffee with them on campus.  I can't think of the last time a week went by and I was not eating with a young adult.

Season 2, Episode 10 | Randy Jumper | 20 Years In YA