Local Missions Organization

The Local Missions Mobilizer
Each local church is encouraged to select a Local Missions Mobilizer (LMM). The LMM is the local church's point person through whom Free Methodist World Missions can provide resources and share missions news. Responsibilities of the LMM may include:

• Serve as the local church's liaison to the conference missions team and to Free Methodist World Missions
• Lead the local church's efforts to reaise missions awareness and participation as a Global Local Church
• Lead the local church's missions committee (World Impact Team)
• Encourage deepening commitments to prayer and financial support of specific missionaries and national ministries
• Foster relationship-building with supported missionaries and national ministries

The Global Local Church
Each local church can be a Global Local Church - a community of believers who have caught Christ's vision of transforming the world through the power of the eternal God. The Global Local Church has incorporated the truths of Acts 1:8 into their everyday ministry - communicating God's redeeming love in their neighborhood, in their region and to the ends of the earth.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:8

Ways to become a Global Local Church

• Organize a World Impact Team to coordinate mission efforts of the local church.
• Provide specific missionaries with prayer, financial and emotional support.
• Hold an annual missions celebration (World Impact Weekend) to celebrate what God is doing around the world and how that relates to the local church.
• Let prayer for the world permeate each worship event.
• Give out of a commitment to world evangelization.
• Partner with a country to sponsor the ministry of Jesus Christ through the Free Methodist Church.
• Join a VISA Ministries team to minister in another part of the world.
• Read about what God is doing around the world.
• Build relationships with world Christians - missionaries, international leaders or other Christians.

The Local World Impact Team
Suggested responsibilities of the local World Impact Team may include:

• to develop prayer concern for missionaries and worldwide ministries
• to build relationships with specific missionaries supported by the church
• to partner with Free Methodist ministry in a specific country
• to encourage involvement in long-term or short-term missions service
• to stimulate giving for missionary support, country shares and Extra Mile Projects
• to coordinate all missions activities and programs for the year
• to develop a missions education program for all ages
• to plan an annual missions celebration