South Asia Strategy Coordinator

Facilitating Church Planting Movements.

As a Final Frontier (World A) Strategy Coordinator (SC) your end result is to facilitate indigenous, multiplying Church Planting Movements (CPMs) among the people segments that will eventually be facilitated solely by nationals and become sending bases for other unreached people groups.
Your specific duties will involve the following: Researching, Networking, Strategizing, Interceding, Evangelizing, Ministering, Implementing, Advocating, Leading, Team Building, and Training. If you have a passion to reach the multitudes of lost people living in South Asian and if you see yourself in the following lists of characteristics, then you have the skills necessary to be a successful strategy coordinator.

Strategy Coordinator Characteristics: Catalyst, Networker, Optimist, Risk-taker, Initiator, Visionary, Synergist, Multiplier, Challenger, Innovator, Pursuer, Pioneer, Facilitator, Stimulator, Strategist, Adventurer, Advocate.

ADVOCATE: As a Final Frontier (World A) SC, you will likely be one of only a handful of advocates that these peoples have on the globe. Thus, you must have an intense passion and vision for seeing these precious people find salvation in Jesus Christ. This passion must be fueled by a focus on intercession for these peoples and the work among them. Your vision for these peoples must be fashioned with an end in mind; that end should be to see them become sending groups of their own within a matter of years. While not all groups will be reached as quickly as others, your emphasis must be on reaching the people rather than the longevity of your work among them.

INITIATOR: Along with this highly creative dynamic position comes the challenge of constantly being a starter and rarely being a completer. As you successfully help facilitate CPMs with the people segments of Lahore, you will shift your focus to another UPG or city where the word of God has not been taken. Your highly non-traditional role is not to be a permanent fixture among the unreached peoples but, like Paul, to be an initiator of the tools these people will need to function effectively on their own.

FACILITATOR: Your role will also be primarily be hands-off, focused on building and guiding a synergistic team of workers within the city rather than living or ministering among them long-term. Your team will include not only Southern Baptist personnel, but also nationals and other Great Commission Christians (GCCs) who share your intense passion for the unreached peoples of South Asia. You will have the challenge of focusing this dynamic team as they respond quickly to a constantly changing environment where doors will open and close without notice. Thus, you must be able to work extensively with people from various Christian backgrounds and do so with a great deal of flexibility.

NETWORKER: Your work among the UPGs of South Asia will not be isolated. You will network with GCCs from around the globe to mobilize the resources and personnel necessary to reach these people. These contacts will give you an unlimited realm of information and opportunities from which to create an original ministry that is specific to the needs of these people. You will have the opportunity to meet with other SCs to brainstorm, challenge, and encourage each other in the work. This diverse team will also serve as an in-depth resource for creating new strategies within specific cultures.
This non-traditional role will be both highly challenging and highly rewarding as you work on the edge of Christian missions. What greater challenge could you have than to facilitate the taking of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples of a South Asia who have never before heard?

ROLE OF A STRATEGY COORDINATOR COUPLE:
The role of an SC couple is unique in that both spouses are supporters of and contributors to the total ministry. Individual gifts, abilities and family responsibilities will help determine the extent of involvement of each spouse. There is a broad base of common expectations for both the husband and the wife. Within the SC role, both spouses are expected to:

1. Be called to missions: that both the husband and wife experienced God calling him/her to serve Him on the mission field.

2. Be called to the population segment: that both husband and wife sought God's direction and found His leadership in directing their ministry toward a specific group or city.

3. Be learners of the language and culture of the population segment and/or the country of residence.

4. Be knowledgeable about the population segment.

5. Be knowledgeable about the world-wide Christian resources which can contribute to the evangelization of the population.

6. Contribute to the overall strategy for evangelization.

7. Be, in action and in words, a living witness.

8. Be active participants in a local church ministry.

9. Be knowledgeable about World A in general.

10. Offer hospitality to both colleagues and nationals.

11. Maintain a balance between family and ministry in the local church setting and to the population segment.

12. Maintain a balance between time at home and travel, with consideration being given to needs of all family members.

13. Keep lines of communication open in the family, the local setting, and on all administrative levels.

14. Be accountable for spiritual growth as well as the maintenance of a healthy and open marriage.

15. Maintain healthy and open relationships in the family.

16. Maintain healthy and open relationships with colleagues and nationals.

17. Use New Testament examples for the resolution of conflict both within the family and in all other relationships.

All couples and families are unique. Changing family situations will in many ways determine the extent to which the husband or wife can be involved in the overall ministry. Individual roles may have to be modified or completely changed upon periodic review to make any adjustments necessary so that the above expectations are being met.