DFW Mobilizers

Date	Main Speaker / Agenda Item	15-Minute Ministry Highlight
June 7, 2012	Shannon Hopkins will be sharing about t he Transformational Index , a new system for planning, evaluating and communicating about social transformation enterprises. Shannon is a member of the Core Team at Matryoshka Haus , an international network of social entrepreneurs who work mostly in the UK, US, and Europe. As awareness built regarding how conventional ways of defining and measuring the “success” of social enterprises (and other initiatives) don't work well in the world as it is emerging, Shannon and her teammates developed The Transformational Index to evaluate “progress” and “impact” in their social transformation projects.
May 3, 2012	The World Prayer Assembly is the largest global prayer gathering of intercessors in history. This epic event will be held in Indonesia culminating on May 17th at the national stadium filled with 100,000 intercessors, including 40,000 children and youth. In addition, tens of millions from Indonesia and around the world will participate via satellite TV and Internet streaming. Join the DFW Mobilizers on this National Day of Prayer as The Seed Company leads us to seek the Lord's favor and blessing upon the World Prayer Assembly and as we lift up other local and national needs.
April 5, 2012	Dr Abraham Sarker will be joining us to discuss Muslim Community Transformation: Strategies for Impacting Islamic Communities with the Gospel.	Stan Harwood, TOAG: Training Ordinary Apprentices to Go
Mar 1, 2012	Dr. Bryan Galloway serves as the Managing Director of EthnoJourneys. With twenty five years of cross-cultural experience, he is a practicioner, consultant, and trainer of cross-cultural communication, research, and ethnography. Byran holds a doctorate in cultural studies and offers consultation on how to discover worldview perspectives for effective cross-cultural communications.	Urban Plunge is a unique weekend mission trip experience in the inner-city that will change your life!
No meeting in Feb 2012
Tuesday, Jan 24, 2012 12:30pm - 2:30pm	Patrick Johnstone, will visit the DFW Mobilizers while in the USA touring for his new book, The Future of the Global Church. RSVP to dfwmobilizer@gmail.com with "RSVP for (# of people)" in the subject line. Meet with us in The Alcove (downstairs underneath Mosiac Coffee Shop)
Dec 1, 2011	Join us for lunch and fellowship from 12:00 - 1:30pm	Brian Considine, Mission America Coalition
Oct 6, 2011	Jackie was a teenager when she met David and Jeannie (AIM) who had recently moved into her neighborhood in eastern Kenya. She got involved in a community center (Light of Life library) they founded and today she runs the ministry. She will soon marry one of the MBB's who was introduced to Christ at the community center and who led Bible Studies there for several years before he became a Christian! Hear Jackie's story on Thursday, October 5th at Irving Bible Church to learn more about this ministry that can be replicated anywhere in the world!	Cindy Cunningham, Village of Hope
Sep 1, 2011	*The Role of the U.S. Church in Mobilizing Multi-National Teams*: What do we mean when we say "the U.S. Church"? Who do we picture? Come and brainstorm ideas on how U.S. churches and mission agencies can work more closely together to mobilize inter-cultural teams for cross-cultural work. Voltaire Cacal who serves as the Missions Pastor for Biblical Community Church (in Richardson) and as the Director of Strategic Ministry Development for CAM International (in Dallas) will be speaking on Thursday, September 1. One example that he'll be presenting is the preparation and mobilization of Latins, Americans, Filipinos, and other ethnic groups for work with people groups in the southern part of the Philippines.
Jun 2, 2011	Dr. Rex Rogers will encourage us with how God is using satellite television across the Middle East and North Africa. The SAT-7 staff produces over 80% of SAT-7 programs in the Middle East with local Middle east Christians in a wide variety of Biblically based, culturally sensitive and relevant programming that speaks to the spiritual and physical needs of the viewers and to the most important social issues of the region. Programs are non-political and non-partisan; they are not aimed at any one country or religious denomination, nor do they attack any religion or belief. SAT-7’s message of Jesus’ unconditional love and forgiveness directly counters the messages of violence and martyrdom that are seen on other local channels. Visit www.sat7usa.org and www.sat7.org for more information.
May 5, 2011	Training ... one of the key ingredients to mobilizing! Workers for the harvest need to be trained before beginning cross-cultural ministry assignments around the world, or even right here. Various choices ranging from agency training programs to seminaries exist, but recently another option to supplement the equipping of missionaries has begun to be utilized more. Church-based training provides a unique environment for the practical, mentoring-oriented kind of preparation needed to see Biblical community begun in other cultures. We will discuss this topic, and provide an overview of two such church-based training programs being offered right here in the Metroplex. Cindy Wiles of First Baptist Church Arlington and Don Beacham of Grace Community Church will be sharing.	Hope Coffee
Apr 7, 2011	Wings as Eagles Ministries (WAEM) is a non-denominational evangelical ministry and relief organization working with the First Nations People, bringing love and hope on our forgotten lands. The mission of WAEM is to extend the evangelistic calling by proclaiming the Gospel of Christ and equipping other native brother and sisters to do the same while promoting positive healthy environments/communities on the reservations to produce a productive lifestyle for the native people.
Mar 3, 2011	Jack Ring will share about CAPRO Ministries - a non-denominational global missionary movement of African origin taking the gospel to the remaining unreached areas of the world (with a focus on Muslims in Africa and the Arab world).	Special Guest from Turkey
No meeting in Feb 2011 due to weather
No meeting in Jan 2011
Dec 2, 2010	Join us as we hear from a panel of CapeTown 2010 attendees.
Nov 4, 2010	Randy Vaughn is one of The Marketing Twins. Along with his identical twin brother, Donny, they serve faith-based small business owners and nonprofit organizations. In addition to comprehensive marketing planning, Randy and Donny coach organizations on how to use social media effectively to reach more people, networking more effectively and connect people to people. When asked what The Marketing Twins do, Randy and Donny boldly say, "because we love the Lord, we come alongside and guide you until the frustration of marketing is eliminated - so you can focus on doing greater things!" While oil and water don't mix, Randy's background includes marketing AND missions (two disciplines that don't often sound right in the same sentence). Randy and his family spent 10 years serving as a church-planting missionaries in Benin, West Africa. Randy is the husband of Kelly and the father of 4 great kids!	Ryan Emis, Director of Ministry Advancement for Perspectives, will update us regarding the Perspectives Leadership Briefing hosted by The Seed Company and Wycliffe at The Hope Center in March 2011
Oct 7, 2010	Our special guest in October is a Muslim background Turkish believer from Ankara who will share the state of the Gospel in Turkey and ministry to Muslims from a Turkish/Middle Eastern perspective. He and his wife and family represent one of the longest-running believing families in Turkey, although not all of their extended family are believers (yet). Ibrahim leads a ministry called Kucak (Hugs) focusing on serving the children of Turkey and especially the believing Turkish children’s community. They run a summer camp, create and distribute a monthly children’s magazine, and just finished a Children’s Bible, among many other projects. Ibrahim also leads a small Turkish congregation in Ankara.	Rick and Donna Buddemeier, CrossWorld missionaries secunded to WorldView
Sep 2, 2010	Harry Porter, VP of missions with Equip International, a mission training and sending agency based in NC will give an overview of how short-term mission teams can implement a Wholistic mission strategy known as Community Health Evangelism (CHE). CHE is a effective short term mission strategy used by teams from churches such as Saddleback Community church, and the Evangelical Free Church as well as in hundreds of mission agencies. Equip International offers CHE training at its training centers in NC and Vancouver, BC, as well as Missionary Medicine Intensive, Water Well Drilling, and Pump Repair. Come learn how your church can minister to both the physical and spiritual needs of those in the developing world.
Aug 5, 2010	The Prayer Room is a developing 24/7 prayer furnace and missions base. It’s director, Brad Stroup, began daily prayer meetings back in Sept.'05 with a main focus being on revival here in DFW. Since then they have added additional daily prayer meetings, all of which are team led (or led by a single worship leader in the case of our devotional sets). Currently, there are people coming from over 50 different churches and the ministry has the door to it’s prayer room open most of the week. They desire to partner with the local Church to see maturity in unity, effectiveness in ministry, and the moving forth of the gospel here in this city and feel that the Lord has commissioned them to labor specifically in prayer to see these Kingdom objectives met. Currently The Prayer Room offers 19 corporate prayer times per week, a Saturday night weekly gathering we call our Encounter Service, several weekly small discussion groups on various end time themes called E12 Groups, conferences and training workshops.	A ministry that is working with House Churches in East Asia
Jun 3, 2010	Join us as Voltaire Cacal, Evangelism Ministry Team Leader @ Biblical Community Church in Richardson shares about partnering with local People Groups in Missions.	Nathan Bogue AID Sudan
May 6, 2010	Pastor Jalil Dawood is the Pastor of The Arabic Church of Dallas. The Arabic Church of Dallas works with immigrants and refugees from the Middle East (Muslims and nominal Christians). Pastor Dawood is a native of Iraq-Baghdad who fled during the war with Iran and he is also a refugee to the USA. He is a member of North American missions and finished his education at Dallas Theological Seminary - Cross Cultural Studies. He will be speaking about Islam and the work of his church here in Dallas and sharing about his recent mission trip to Jordan and Iraq.	Brad Nelson Crescent Project
Apr 1, 2010	Learn more about a Dallas-based microfinance organization from Iris Liang, Executive Director @ Videre Microfinance Institution. Iris will share how they are using microfinance as an effective way of empowering the poor by building and growing micro businesses and fostering entrepreneurial thinking to change an economy from the grassroots level.	Ken Edwards Faith Comes By Hearing
Mar 4, 2010	Dean Lundberg with YWAM will be sharing about the OneStory partnership which includes Campus Crusade for Christ, the IMB, Trans World Radio, Wycliffe International, YWAM, and involves other Great Commission agencies, churches and individuals. OneStory’s unique training process has been tested in multiple countries and many languages. Mobilization efforts are underway in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to train and equip workers to reach out in their own countries and across borders as well.	Brian Masters (Director of Operations, CAM International) will highlight CAM's online resources and partnership with Global Media Outreach.
Feb 4, 2010	GMO is using the Internet to bring people to Jesus Christ. With over 100 different worldwide web sites, thousands of people each day indicate decisions for Christ through GMO. Then, we connect these seekers with Online Missionaries who respond to them via email. You and your church can be Online Missionaries, reaching the nations from your computer or smart phone, anytime, anywhere. This new paradigm of missions takes the gospel farther and wider than ever before!	Debbie Farah Bajalia Trading Company

We meet on the 1st Thursday of every month from Noon until 1:30pm at Irving Bible Church.
Lunch served - $5.00 per person and you are welcome to join us - no RSVP necessary.

Irving Bible Church
2435 Kinwest Parkway
Irving, TX 75063
972.560.4600

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