Missionary
Launching
Discover your calling as a missionary…wherever you are.
Every Christian is a missionary. If you follow Jesus, He is sending you into the world.
He teaches about it, prays for it, and transforms you to it, as He calls you to join Him in the renewing of all things.
But how many of us feel like we are fully living out this identity as missionaries for Jesus? Our hearts don’t always desire what we know we are made for, we don’t always understand our world, our neighbourhood, or our culture in a way that helps us be effective ambassadors, and we wrestle with the how: what does this look like for me?
A way forward
Missionary Launching is created to help connect your gifts and your place with His mission. If everyone is a missionary, everyone should have access to good training that helps us work out what that means where God has called us—be it overseas or our own backyard.
Missionary Launching: Local is for people who want to make the most of their identity as missionaries, where they are right now. It's also for leaders who want to help others discover their calling as missionaries.
Missionary Launching: Global is for people considering doing the same, but in a cross cultural context.
The Plan
Local
For current and future church leaders
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9 sessions, individual or group
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Discover your unique gifts and calling
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A fresh understanding of your place
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Practical next steps every session
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Clearly connect your gifts and your place with God’s mission
This is training usually reserved for cross-cultural missionaries—brought to everyone.
For those considering cross cultural missionary work
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4 group video sessions, with 2 individual follow up session at the end
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A one-week residential intensive in Manchester, England
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Navigate moving to and thriving in another culture
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Specific questions: developing partners, fundraising, living as an immigrant, etc.
Global
Focus Areas
Your Life Story
You'll uncover recurring themes God has woven throughout your journey and see how even painful experiences have cultivated specific passions within you.
Unique Gifts
By examining peak experiences where you excelled and felt alive, you'll discover some distinctive patterns and the gifts that energize rather than drain you.
Personal Vision
You'll paint a picture of what full obedience looks like, then create specific 3-year and 3-month milestones that move you from vague aspirations to concrete, prayerful steps.
Cultural Stories
You'll learn how to unearth the secular stories of redemption that always surround us, and how to connect or confront these stories with the gospel story.
Ministry Specific Areas
From missionary organisations to backyard barbecues, from fund raising to finding the right words to say, we cover the specific questions relevant for your life on mission
Launch into Your Calling
As you discover how God has uniquely made and gifted you, how He has invited you to play a unique role in His mission, you will have the benefit of greater clarity in how to follow Him as His missionary. Wherever you are!
Why this matters
Failing to live out our missionary identity has real consequences. What if your voice isn't heard? What if your role isn't played? All of you is required for God's grand plan of redemption.
God has enlisted you—your gifts, your personality, your voice. He intends to use the full you in His mission. What an amazing God we serve who allows us to be a part of the best mission ever! Missionary Launching is created so you don’t overlook it, so that you are better enabled to live it, and for your heart to more reflect our Father, the sending God.
Meet Your Cohort Leader
Greg Willson loves to help people discover their own unique calling and find ways to live it out. This has led him to various adventures, including moving from the US to live in the UK, where Greg currently is the lead planter for Redeemer, a church in Manchester, England. He enjoys making music, running, reading books, and getting into the nerdier aspects of brewing coffee. Greg is Christina’s husband and Colin’s dad.
Interested? Let's talk.
The applications are now open. To learn more, please email the cohort leader Greg Willson at greg@peoplelaunching.com.
Or, schedule a free 30-minute consult with Greg below!