SfK October 2022 Newsletter

 

SfK Ministry 2022 October Newsletter View this email in your browser

Luke 21: 34-36 "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."  Unevangelized or Unreached: Why the Difference Matters By Brian Zunigha, Director of Discipleship Ministries at California Baptist Univeristy Original Article from thetravelingteam.org UNAWARE OF THE UNREACHED Ignorance is bliss but it can also be deadly. One of the most dangerous misuses of Christian phrases I’ve heard recently is the overuse of the phrase, “unreached people group.” I’ve heard people use that phrase to talk about efforts to reach college campuses, friends, clubs, and neighborhoods. It is a term that has been used more and more in the Christian subculture to validate missional status quo rather than raise the alarm for people groups who are entirely cut off from the gospel. CRUCIAL DEFINITIONS We need to understand what a people group is and how to define what it means to be “reached” with the gospel.   A people group is not a subculture, but the largest grouping of people within which messages can be exchanged without encountering major communication boundaries. Just because my seventy-year-old neighbor doesn’t have a smart phone or listen to Adele doesn’t put us in different people groups. Our slang may be different, but we both speak English and have no problems communicating.  On the other hand, the family down the street who primarily speaks Spanish would be a part of a different people group because our ability to communicate is severely limited to their broken English and what I’ve learned from Dora. A people group is considered “reached” or “unreached” based on the group’s public access to the gospel. By public access, I mean the presence of churches with the intention and ability to share the gospel with the rest of the people group. Just because there may be individuals within a specific people group who have not personally heard the gospel, it does not mean that group is unreached. There may be public access to the gospel (churches who are sharing the gospel), but not every individual has heard the message. Without public access to the gospel individuals will never personally hear the message. If we desire all people to personally hear the gospel, we should leverage our lives to plant churches among the people groups where there is currently no public access to the gospel. We can roughly separate people into three groups depending on the degree of personal hearing and public access to the gospel within the group.   Continue Reading... MINISTRY UPDATES MB Academy - SfK held its BMT 2022 Korean track sessions for weeks 4 - 6 in September. Now their training focuses on Operations and Accounting and Finance modules. MB Academy - SfK held its Post-BMT session in September on the topic of Organizational Behavior led by Professor Sunghoon Kim of the University of Sydney in Australia. MB Academy - SfK is solidifying the bond from previous and current BMT participants through informal gatherings in Korea whenever they visit Korea. From one of the MB Academy gatherings in Korea MB Fund - SfK reviewed the information to consider additional investment in a missional business in a restricted nation in Asia. This process will continue in October. MB Trading - The management team for Shop4Impact.com continued their weekly meetings in September, seeking God's grace in finding a breakthrough. SfK Network - SfK Korea is working on establishing a BAMer Care program. Please pray that this initiative will bear useful fruit.   UPCOMING EVENTS 1. October 2022: MB Academy - SfK will continue holding the BMT 2022 Korean track sessions for weeks 7 - 11. Please pray that this training will be effective in equipping the current and future BAMers. 2. October 15, 2022: MB Academy - SfK will hold its October Post-BMT session. Two cases in Mozambique and Cambodia will be shared and discussed. Please pray that this continuing education will help deepen their understanding of missional business management. 3. MB Fund - SfK will continue reviewing additional information about a missional business in a restricted nation in Asia. Please pray that this process will be completed in a timely manner. 4. October 30, 2022: MB Trading - Shop4Impact.com team in California will participate in an offline sales event. Please pray that this event will help move some of the inventory effectively. 5. November 2022: SfK Network - SfK will participate in a Migrants Mission Training School program to be held in a hybrid of online and offline sessions. Please pray that this collaboration will be encouraging and edifying for all involved. 6. SfK Network - SfK Korea is exploring several options to redefine its business model. Please pray that this initiative will pave a solid way towards the enterprise's long-term sustainability with a greater transformation impact. We thank you for standing with us through your prayer and financial support in equipping and empowering missional businesses in Asia and Africa. .   .   . We pray that our good and faithful Lord will bless you richly so that you may become a greater blessing for people in need around you and around the world.