Starting, Assessing & Sustaining Pioneering Mission

Starting, Assessing & Sustaining Pioneering Mission -Steve Hollinghurst

Hollinghurst's Grove Booklet offers some valuable insights for churches and pioneers:

1) Collaboration is key, even when it seems in competition with the local church: The local church is often the broker and supporter of mission projects.
2) Pioneers are risk takers and experimenters and create tensions for managers. But the relationship must work for accountability and backing.  Permission givers must release pioneers as with Nehemiah.
3) Being clear about charitable status and structures is important for well managed pioneering.
4) Incarnational mission has 5 steps over 5 years...and produces signs of UP IN OUT discipleship, Self -financing, governing, reproducing, theologizing.
5) Pioneers must model the Twelve & Seventy-two pioneering model of Jesus to all including new Christians.