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Report on the ¡®2006 NCOWE ¥³¡¯ Mission Strategy Conference
Boae Jung1)
NCOWE IV Sketch
On June 6th-10th 2006 in Kyeongido Hallelujah church (Korea), the fourth world missions strategy conference (NCOWE IV) was held.2) This NCOWE conference held exceptionally good results due to the incorporation of Korea's largest Christian official organization ¡®CCK¡¯ and mission's representative association,¡®Korea World Missions Association (KWMA)¡¯. Essentially, NCOWE strategic conference is held in Korea every five years. Although this year is only its fourth conference, it is gradually gaining its reputation and importance in the Korean Christian society as the ideal for missions strategic conference. The participants of the conference are leaders of various fields including theology and missiology professors, pastors of local churches, field missionaries, missions administrative staffs, mission committees from local churches and those interested in missions. During the duration of the conference, along with the topic presentations came 26 different strategic committee conference (according to its type) everyday.3) Daily Prayer meetings morning and night, Bible Studies and Mission Revival Services were held and proved to be of significance in equipping the leaders with knowledge and the right strategies. Over 800 Korea's mission leaders participated and took part in daily mission revival which consisted of over one thousand people listening to testimonies and sermons of missionaries and had a meaningful time in prayer and repentance.
The purpose of this year's NCOWE is mainly focused on master planning 25 year futuristic goal oriented mission strategy and mutual consent for Korea's future in missions. With this in mind, 47 leaders of Korean missions with the support of KWMA served as NCOWE's host. The task force team (NCOWE's strategic research team) scheduled and planned ahead for the strategic conference since 2004 and successfully ran the conference. Before the actual conference took place, three rounds of free consultation took place using democratic means by considering the opinions of the Korean churches and missions in evaluation. Below are details for this volume of KJFM as the NCOWE IV's report. The following subjects are focused mainly on the planning and preparation of the conference by the NCOWE IV's strategic research team and the significant realizations and results made during evaluation, regarding similar comments made by Korea's mission leaders and the press. This is an overall summary organized into four parts.
1. History of Korean missions and 25year plan of evaluation and task
First of all, through this NCOWE IV conference, Korean missions took meaningful time in objectively assessing the history of Korean mission and agreed on the holistic perception of being task oriented. Specifically the assessment of Korean mission history was focused around the time just before the growth of Korea's economic growth and media evangelization had officially started (past 25years, 1980 - 2005), however in actuality, through documentations, interviews of professionals and polls, Korea's mission history was comprehensively organized and assessed from its beginning to this present day. The table below shows an organized summary of the last 25 years in Korea's mission history.
Evaluation of Korea's Past 25 Year Mission History
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Positive assets
¨ç Became of an international scale in missions due to large missionary support.
¨è Mobilization through large scale evangelical and mission movement.
¨é Taking risks; breaking barriers by using strong assets as a Korean such as church planting.
¨ê Overseas role in missions from Korean diaspora churches.
¨ë National paradigm ¡æ Ethnic paradigm shift.
Supplementary needs
¨ç Development of specific mission goal and strategy.
¨è Korean churches' active participation in missions (85% of the church does not participate in missions).
¨é Balance in quantitative development and qualitative maturity.
¨ê Establishment of missional system.
¨ë Strengthening of global mission partnership and networking.
5 Essential Tasks
¨ç Strategic Mission
¨è Strategic Deployment of missionaries
¨é Establishment of mission system
¨ê Activation of church mission
¨ë Developing mission leadership
2. Future Korean Mission (25years) system, contents, and its direction
Secondly, NCOWE ¥³ bestows the greatest importance in planning Korea's mission future for the next 25 years (2006 ~ 2030) holding year 2005 as the starting point. Presently, we are living in a generation when theoretical future predictions and researches are actively undertaken by the early 21st century politics, economics, sociology, culture etc. Therefore, the revival of Korean Christian society taking the 21st century's aspect into consideration and desiring and planning for the future 25 year Korean mission is an appropriate need for such a time as this. This NCOWE conference planned for the future 25 year Korean mission and set January 2006 to December 2030 of 5 rounds 5 year development plans as its priority. Korea's specific primary focus is the need to develope core capability; as we generally know, 1) theory/research 2) mobilization 3) training / sending 4) mission administration 5) strategy 6) form of support etc. The chart below shows the direction in which Korea's mission needs to take in the next 25years.
Future of Korean Mission and the Direction of 5 Round 5 Year Development Plan
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7 directions for the future of Korean mission
The following are 7 main directions the Korean Mission must take as a priority for the establishment of a healthy system.
¨ç A system that requires both quantitative development and qualitative maturity
¨è Establishment of minimum financial cost and maximum efficiency mission system
¨é Development of a ¡®Korean - modeling¡¯ mission system
¨ê System that takes accountability in mission finances and integrity
¨ë Encouraging partnership in system (western churches, 2/3 world partners, local churches on mission field)
¨ì Encouraging the field oriented system
¨í A system that can classify spiritual warfare party and support party (MK, administrations, care, infra support).
3. Establishing Target 2030's vision and focus on active church mission
Thirdly, with Korean mission's 25year plan as reference, Target 2030 was chosen as the overall vision. Target 2030 keeps its central focus on partnership, training and support of 100 thousands Korean missionaries until 2030 in locations of frontier mission. During the last day of the conference, an agreement was made between each denominations, churches in local communities, 110 mission organizations belonging to Para Church, KWM and all churches in Korea including 6 million Korean Diaspora's churches to realistically keep the same goal, participate and continue to support Korean missionaries in order to finish the remaining task and strife for progress in quality.
While preparing for the first meeting, some leaders misunderstood the goal of Target 2030 and were anxious over the weakening of the quality of Korean churches and feared that Target 2030 was encouraging the expansion in the quantity of the churches. However during the two year period before NCOWE, Korean mission leaders agreed on the need for balance in development of quality and quantity. They accepted the present phrase as an adolescent period in Korean missions and decided to start officially preparing to achieve this goal.
Realistically speaking, the reason for the popular consent of Target 2030's vision is for the churches to achieve active role in missions. According to present statistics, only 15% of all Korean churches are actively involved in missions. Not only this, it is notified that it had been years since the decline and even stagnation in the growth of Korean churches. Churches dealing with such internal and external challenge need to stir up an ¡®Again 1907¡¯ revival and have a 100th anniversary in remembrance of the awakening, striving towards mission centered Korea once again. This is the very reason for the establishment of Target 2030's vision ; a vision that is biblical and apostolic recovering the essence of mission minded church. In reality, according to the scale and capability of Korean missions, each church would have to support one (1) of every 300 believers in order to achieve 100 thousands missionary goal.
4. Frontier missions and the task of CAS
Fourthly, NCOWE IV agreed on focusing more on the unreached people groups and frontier missions. This proved to be a very important outcome because it is directly linked to practically resolving the problems faced in ¡®strategic mission¡¯ and ¡®strategic deployment of the missionaries¡¯ (mentioned above in 5 important tasks through the 25 year history of Korean missions). While Korean missionaries are increasing and issues of strategic deployment and re - locating missionaries are becoming prominent, the first action NCOWE IV took was numerically arranging frontier missions of all countries and presented the ¡®Frontier Map¡¯. The purpose of this guide is to monitor the present state of mission activity and to estimate the number of nations in need of support. Korea was used as the standard for numbering frontier missions.4) This is because many people no longer consider Korea as one of the mission targeting countries and Korea is included in the 2/3 world. After undergoing various statistics and steps of classifying into General Mission and Frontier Mission, the frontier number was established and subdivided into five different types representing and classifying various locations.5) This is related to the strategic positioning and partnership of Korean missionaries allowing them to know the province and nation in need of more Korean missionaries.
In order to prevent overlapping investment of missionaries, CAS (Comity : dividing mission locations ; Adoption : adopting un-reached people groups ; Specialization : specialization of mission function) was introduced during the ¡®10th anniversary of un-reached people groups commemoration¡¯. CAS is assigned to minister in strategic mission fields and locations; updating and presenting CAS is for the promotion of strategic Korean missions. CAS separates the world into 26 regional blocks and then subdivides the locations according to nation. For further advancement, locations are subdivided into province and cities under the 26 nations of the regional blocks and a critical list of un-reached people groups was formulated for the overall strategic preparation of mission field and mission target in need. Through this, Korean missions desire a future in specialized decision making and professionalism of each denominations and organizations in order to achieve mutual cooperation ministry in the field.
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1) The author is serving as a member of UPMA(Unreached People Missions Alliance) and the vice - president of IMPAC (Institute for Mission to Peoples And Cities).
2) Years 1990 (the 1st), 1995 (the 2nd), 2000 (the 3rd).
3) This conference has continued meetings among the agencies and leaders working in various areas by constituting 26 area specialization committees in order to establish the mission system and cooperation for Korea future missions. Those 26 committees in different areas are as follows: Professional Mission Committee, UPG Mission Committee, Medical Mission Committee, Foreigner Mission Committee, MK Education Committee, Youth-Students Mission Committee, North Korea Mission Committee, China Mission Committee, Islam Bloc Mission Committee, Buddhist Bloc Mission Committee, Hindu Bloc Mission Committee, Catholic Bloc Mission Committee, Communist Bloc Mission Committee, Internet Mission Committee, Korean Diaspora Mission Committee, Christian Educator's Committee, NGO Mission Committee, Sports Mission Committee, Culture Mission Committee, Missionary Total Care Committee, Church Mission Promotion Committee, Missiology Committee, Mission Training-Education Committee, Mission Social Science Committee, Handicap Person Mission Committee, Chidren Mission Committee.
4) The number used in reference to Korea is as follows :
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Evangelical's Rate
15.5%
Double Counted Christian Rate (Weight Index Used)
41.6%
5) General Missions Areas
G2 : Countries of which evangelical rate is higher than Korea ( > 15.5%)
G1 : Countries of which evangelical rate is less than Korea but lies between 10% and 15.5%. And doubly counted number of Christians is bigger than Korea ; normally Orthodox and Roman Catholic regions.
Frontier Mission Areas
F1 : Evangelicals : 5% ~ 10% ; South Africa, China.
F2 ; Evangelicals : 0 ~ 5% ; Countries in not serious persecution.
F3 : Evangelicals : 0 ~ 5% ; Countries in serious persecution.
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