Category Archives: Mission Strategy

Good Mornin’ PANAMA!

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 29, 2009

  Panama City as seen from the Morris’ back porch After a four hour flight out of Atlanta, a sea of lights appeared below as we approached Panama City, Panama. Exiting the skybridge into the airport terminal, it was kind of eerie to see the airport, immigration, and customs officials donning their masks to protect themselves from [...]

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PANAMA!

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 28, 2009

Today I am flying out of Cincinnati with a volunteer mission team headed to Panama. The team is composed of members of the missions commitee of the Tates Creek Baptist Association located in the Richmond, Kentucky area. They are headed to Panama with the primary purpose of visioning for future opportunities of partnering with IMB missionaries Kenny and [...]

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Criteria to Consider when Choosing a Country

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 23, 2009

People call me and ask, “How do we go about choosing a country to partner with?” First I suggest this six step method: Get a globe Spin it Close your eyes Stick out your index finger Move your finger forward until you hit the globe and make it stop spinning Open your eyes and see where your [...]

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Applying the 5 Basic Questions to the “3-D” Phases

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 16, 2009

In my last post “Mission Trip Strategy: “3-D Ministry Phases,” I introduced a strategy development concept that uses three basic phases common to all ministry projects: Discovery, Development, and Deployment. In order to further develop those phases into specific plans, a simple process of applying five basic questions to each phase can be employed. Discovery [...]

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Mission Trip Strategy: “3-D Ministry Phases”

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 13, 2009

Regardless of the type of mission trip you are planning, EVERY mission trip should have a strategy associated with it. Strategy is a basic military term defined as: 1. A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.  2. A method for making, doing, or accomplishing something; an idea, plan, project, design, scheme, layout, or [...]

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IMB Structure Change Mobilizes More Churches

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 10, 2009

IMB‘s recent structure change takes the focus off of geographical designations and places it on eight global affinity groups that encompass all of the world’s 11,000-plus known people groups. Affinity groups are defined as “large groupings of related peoples that share similar origins, languages and cultures.” Among the most significant changes is the elimination of [...]

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GAP TEAMS

By Scott Pittman | Published: April 3, 2009

What is GAP? GAP stands for “Gospel Advancement Project”. It is a gospel saturation ministry that seeks to place evangelistic materials in every household and clearly present the gospel in designated areas. This is accomplished through the use of volunteers partnering with missionaries and Baptists in the target areas. The GAP model is from the IMB South [...]

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Vision Trip: An Act of War

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 20, 2009

I read an intriguing article this week. Its title declared, “Arrest of Portuguese spy altered history“ -   Newly released British intelligence files reveal how a Nazi spy was snatched from a boat on the high seas before he could warn Germany that an Allied convoy was steaming ahead to invade North Africa.It was a little-known [...]

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REAP — It’s more than a mission trip

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 13, 2009

Here’s a testimony from a Texas church that has committed to a LEVEL FOUR type project as described in a previous blog, “LEVELS OF INVOLVEMENT“   First Baptist Church, Universal City, Texas, and pastor David Lindow have committed to a valley in Peru for the next 4-5 years. For years they had gone on mission trips to [...]

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Acts 1:8 Challenge: Forming a Missions Action Team – MAT

By Scott Pittman | Published: March 12, 2009

Testimony from an ACTS 1:8 Challenge Pastor I received the material on the Acts 1:8 Challenge and went through it in a couple of days. There is a small group study and some other stuff but I decided not to do that. My approach was to form a missions team made up of those people [...]

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