The Dallas II global mission consultation, held October 5-7, 2012, brought together more than 200 grassroots and national mission leaders from across the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), as well as ecumenical and global partners. Together, participants determined that Presbyterian mission work should be centered on the critical global issues of addressing the root causes of poverty, engaging in evangelism, and working for reconciliation, and refined core values and priorities for responding strategically to those issues with concrete, measurable, global initiatives.
Following the consultation, participants agreed to form continuing working groups (of which Presbyterian World Mission will be a part) to:
- Coordinate the next steps coming out of Dallas II;
- Communicate with participants of Dallas II and others who wanted to be at the consultation but couldn’t attend;
- Edit the key messages, suggested action plans, strategies, and statements into a “mission trail guide” for Presbyterians involved in mission.
World Mission has drafted a document that distills the specific mission strategies and priorities from Dallas II and combines them with our Regional Liaisons’ strategies representing the voices of global partners and mission co-workers. This document assigns each strategy to one or more of the three critical global issues. World Mission will present this document to the coordinating working group as it plans next steps.
I invite you to read this summary of what happened at Dallas II and share it with others. Link The collective energy and excitement coming out of Dallas II shows that God’s vibrant mission movement is already underway!
Grace and peace,
Hunter
Hunter Farrell
Director
Presbyterian World Mission
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