GCP – Global Connection Process – the training program used at Urbancrest to prepare and equip individuals and family members who believe God is calling them to cross-cultural missions.
In September, UBC began another two-year program to train Mission Interns with the end goal of certifying nine Interns and launching them out to reach the nations (this could include our own nation)! This will be the second class of Mission Interns being sent from our church as missionaries to serve along-side our strategic partners throughout the world and in the USA. Ron & Darlene Whitmer, Aaron & Dana Bogan, and Matt Prichard are examples of those who prepared in the Mission Intern Class of 2010-2011 and are currently serving cross-culturally!
This is the natural ‘next-step’ of a strong missional church. It reproduces! Believers who participate in local, state, and foreign missions grow in their understanding of God’s call “to go make disciples of all the nations” and therefore seek training so that they will be equipped to obey His call. The UBC missions ministry met that demand with GCPN Panorama Curriculum that originated from FBC Arlington, TX.
Our Mission Intern class of 2011-2012 and group facilitators can be seen in the above photo. The facilitators are leadership personnel within UBC missions ministry who have been trained as instructors to facilitate the GCP Mission Intern classes and fill in as substitute facilitators and co-leaders.
Our Interns have had many opportunities to use what they have learned. This is not only encouraged, it is expected and a part of their training. The photo below is of the Otto family working in Judgement House. They served in the Heaven scene and also as spiritual counselors.
As a Kingdom-minded church, we are not only considering our own members but sharing and resourcing local sister churches, church planters, and other “Kingdom-builders” who express a desire to learn about preparing for cross-cultural missions. To that end, UBC hosted a two-day facilitator training for GCPN (out of First Baptist Arlington, TX) on November 4 & 5. This was a seminary-level facilitator training for some of our mission leadership as well as other churches in surrounding states and church planters.
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Pray for the Urbancrest missions ministry as we plant seeds through discipling our members, church planters, sister churches, and the nations.
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