{"id":1091,"date":"2008-03-27T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/impact-of-the-first-world-missions-summit"},"modified":"2009-07-19T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T06:44:34","slug":"impact-of-the-first-world-missions-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/impact-of-the-first-world-missions-summit","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the First World Missions Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twms.ag.org\/\">The World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit<\/a> is com\u00ading up at the end of this year, and so I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/martinxa_family\">E. Scott Mar\u00adtin<\/a> (czar of the sum\u00admit) what the long-term fruit of the first sum\u00admit has been. His answer floored me and I share it with his per\u00admis\u00adsion.<\/p>\n<p>He uses a lot of acronyms (he was writ\u00ading an email to me off the top of his head, not expect\u00ading me to post it for the world to see), so let me give you a glos\u00adsary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AGUSM\/USM \u2014 Assem\u00adblies of God Unit\u00aded States Mis\u00adsions<\/li>\n<li>AGWM\/WM \u2014 Assem\u00adblies of God World Mis\u00adsions<\/li>\n<li>CMA \u2014 Cam\u00adpus Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Asso\u00adciate (peo\u00adple serv\u00ading in Chi Alpha as asso\u00adciate staff, usu\u00adal\u00adly on a short-term basis [a few years])<\/li>\n<li>MA \u2014 Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Asso\u00adciate (peo\u00adple serv\u00ading one to two years)<\/li>\n<li>MAPS \u2014 Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Abroad Place\u00adment Ser\u00advice (peo\u00adple serv\u00ading 1\u201311 months, often in con\u00adstruc\u00adtion projects)<\/li>\n<li>MENA \u2014 Mid\u00addle East\/North Africa<\/li>\n<li>TWMS \u2014 The World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit<\/li>\n<li>XA \u2014 Chi Alpha Cam\u00adpus Min\u00adistries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpressthemesbox.com?the_baker\">the bak\u00ader down\u00adload<\/a><\/div>\n<p>You\u2019ll prob\u00ada\u00adbly need to refer back to that list sev\u00ader\u00adal times as you read his email unless you\u2019re very famil\u00adiar with Assem\u00adblies of God in-house lin\u00adgo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u2026here are the hard stats.  661 stu\u00addents filled out com\u00admit\u00adment cards at TWMS.  Nei\u00adther AGWM, USM, or XA were real\u00adly pre\u00adpared to track those who came from TWMS and joined them in mis\u00adsion through MAPS, MA, or ful\u00adly appoint\u00aded mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies.  I inquired this past sum\u00admer with Fam\u00adi\u00adly Life and Per\u00adson\u00adnel in AGWM about the num\u00adber of stu\u00addents who had already gone to ful\u00adfill their com\u00admit\u00adment.  To the best of their abil\u00adi\u00adty they sent me a spread sheet of 78 peo\u00adple who they relat\u00aded to TWMS due to the fact that their appli\u00adca\u00adtions had the TWMS logo on them.  How\u00adev\u00ader, of my 13 MAs and MAP\u00adpers serv\u00ading with us in Kyr\u00adgyzs\u00adtan at that time, only 2 of them were on that list and all of them made com\u00admit\u00adments at the Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit.   <\/p>\n<p>I sent this obser\u00adva\u00adtion back to AGWM and that is when they informed me they only went by the logo.  I then began to cor\u00adre\u00adlate their list with those  Crys\u00adtal and I per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly knew  had gone AGWM from TWMS (We had 22 MAs and MAPers in our AGWM Area MENA and Cen\u00adtral Eura\u00adsia with only 3 of them on the AGWM list being from TWMS) and we came up with 221 stu\u00addents who had gone so far since TWMS.  This was the sum\u00admer of 2007.  And believe me, this is not com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive.  There are more we don\u2019t know about and I know of 3 who fol\u00adlowed up their com\u00admit\u00adments with oth\u00ader agen\u00adcies and actu\u00adal\u00adly informed AGWM of that so that AGWM knew they did not renege on their com\u00admit\u00adment to go.  USM has absolute\u00adly no idea what so ever on who has con\u00adnect\u00aded in their var\u00adi\u00adous min\u00adistries after TWMS.  We know of 2 who have con\u00adtact\u00aded us who went USM out\u00adside of XA. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the oth\u00ader big news.  The num\u00adber of CMAs in XA accel\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded dra\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly after TWMS.  I will ask Bob what the num\u00adber was pri\u00ador to TWMS but today we have 168 MAs in the field which is far beyond what we have ever had.  Bob and NLT sug\u00adgest it is the direct result of TWMS, but that judg\u00adment is based only on the fact that the num\u00adbers leapt fol\u00adlow\u00ading TWMS and on con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions with cam\u00adpus pas\u00adtors and those MAs. <\/p>\n<p>At this past AGWM Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Inter\u00adview and ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adtion 10 days ago which is only ful\u00adly appoint\u00aded and MAs, not MAPS (which most Chi Alphans go as now) there were 14 who had signed com\u00admit\u00adments at TWMS.  4 of those were ful\u00adly appoint\u00aded AGWM mis\u00adsion\u00adary can\u00addi\u00addates.  Every PFO and inter\u00adview there are more and more from TWMS.  They asked who \u201csigned cards\u201d and not \u201cwho was at TWMS\u201d so again I don\u2019t think it is an accu\u00adrate rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion but close.  Some have gone who made deci\u00adsions at TWMS but didn\u2019t sign the card.  So, we could add these 14 to the 221 in AGWM.  And I don\u2019t have the list from Octo\u00adber either which would add even more.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this infor\u00adma\u00adtion I can safe\u00adly and accu\u00adrate\u00adly say that at least half of those who signed the card at TWMS have ful\u00adfilled their com\u00admit\u00adments and we still have many in the pipeline right now from the first TWMS.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Two stats stand out to me.<\/p>\n<p>1) Rough\u00adly 15% (661 out of around 4,000) of those at The World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit com\u00admit\u00adted to give a year and pray about a life\u00adtime of mis\u00adsion\u00adary ser\u00advice. That\u2019s impres\u00adsive but not unprece\u00addent\u00aded. Lots of peo\u00adple get caught up in emo\u00adtion\u00adal moments at con\u00adfer\u00adences and say things that they lat\u00ader recon\u00adsid\u00ader.<br>\n2) Over half of those peo\u00adple have already deliv\u00adered and more are on the way (pre\u00adsum\u00adably fin\u00adish\u00ading col\u00adlege first). That\u2019s amaz\u00ading. I hard\u00adly know what to do with a num\u00adber like that except praise God. For com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson pur\u00adpos\u00ades, I would guess that at a youth camp or some\u00adthing the equiv\u00ada\u00adlent ful\u00adfill\u00adment rate is clos\u00ader to 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Bot\u00adtom line \u2014 the first World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit rocked. God real\u00adly used it to advance His plan on earth. I expect great things from the sec\u00adond one as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/twms.ag.org\/registration.cfm\">Reg\u00adis\u00adter now<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpressthemesbox.com?the_hunt_for_the_unicorn_killer\">the hunt for the uni\u00adcorn killer online<\/a><\/div>\n<p>  and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=16159360570\">join the Face\u00adbook group<\/a> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turtlesurvival.org\/?meet_bill\">meet bill online down\u00adload<\/a><\/em> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tarabooks.com?mrs_harris\">mrs har\u00adris online<\/a><\/u>   <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geektechs.net?star_trek\">star trek divx<\/a><\/u>  to get announce\u00adments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit is com\u00ading up at the end of this year, and so I asked E. Scott Mar\u00adtin (czar of the sum\u00admit) what the long-term fruit of the first sum\u00admit has been. His answer floored me and I share it with his per\u00admis\u00adsion. He uses a lot of acronyms (he was writ\u00ading an \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/03\/27\/impact-of-the-first-world-missions-summit\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cImpact of the First World Mis\u00adsions Sum\u00admit\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chi-alpha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}