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Being a Global Mission Church Here and ThereEach UCC and Disciples member, each UCC and Disciples congregation, and each UCC conference and Disciples region is invited to claim our identity as a Global Mission Church, and actively engage in God’s mission with Global Ministries.

Disciples and UCC, Together in God’s Global Mission Through Global Ministries, we share staff in Cleveland and Indianapolis, financial resources, mission personnel, programs, projects, advocacy concerns and governance through a common board in which global partners actively participate.

Sharing in Global PartnershipAs we walk with global partners, our fundamental mission commitment is to a shared life in Christ, and to an ecumenical global sharing of resources and prophetic vision of a just, sustainable, and peaceful world order, joining with God’s concern for the poor and oppressed.

Discerning Critical Presence in the WorldInternational partners invite us to participate in their ministries by sending persons in mission or responding to advocacy or funding requests. Through dialogue, we seek to discern with them our mutual Critical Presence … to timely and appropriately meet God’s people and creation at the point of deepest need: spiritually, physically, emotionally or economically.

ORIENTATION FOR YOUR JOURNEY

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In this passport you will find VISA pages to help you discover your place and involvement in God’s global mission.

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Questions for Your JourneyHas your congregation, region or conference created an action plan and signed the Global Mission Church covenant statement? If not, what can you do to help in this process?

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How is your local church, region or conference living out its commitment to Be a Global Mission Church? What is your role?

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Resolutions passed in 2009 at our UCC General Synod and Disciples General Assembly to Be a Global Mission Church, encourage congregations, regions and conferences to affirm this special designation by creating an action plan and signing a statement in covenant with Global Ministries.

A Global Mission Church:

• PRAYS regularly for global partners and mission personnel

• EDUCATES its members about global issues

• SEEKS JUSTICE for the least of these in the world

• RECEIVES the gifts of the global church

• GIVES to the work of global mission

• SENDS its members to share Good News

• GROWS in sharing the story of God’s mission around the world

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Questions for Your JourneyWho are the global partners that you know or would like to know?

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Who are the global partners with whom your church, region or conference shares a special relationship through the Global Church Partnership program?

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Who are the global partners who have visited your congregation, region or conference to share their gifts of ministry with you?

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We are on a journey with over 270 international partners in about 70 countries. As we travel together, our five Global Ministries area offices (Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and Europe, Southern Asia and East Asia and Pacific) help us share persons in mission, financial resources, advocacy efforts and our needs for Critical Presence and accompaniment both here and there.

Global partners are:

• Autonomous churches historically related to the Disciples and UCC

• Various mainline denominations and indigenous churches

• Ecumenical organizations and councils of churches

• Educational and healthcare institutions

• Sustainable development and human rights organizations

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Questions for Your JourneyHow might God be calling you to serve as a person in mission?

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Who are the mission personnel with whom your congregation, region or conference shares a special connection through Global Ministries’ relationship program?

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Who are the persons in mission who have visited your congregation or whom you have visited in another country?

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More than 100 individuals serve on our behalf as persons in mission in over 40 countries at the request of partner churches and organizations. Today, mission personnel appointments emphasize capacity building, medical/health services, pastoral accompaniment, interfaith dialogue, theological education, sustainable development, social work and education.

People in mission are:

• Fully Supported serving 3-4 year terms

• Short and Long-term Volunteers paying part of their expenses

• Global Mission Interns who are young adults with a college degree

• Overseas Associates employed directly by global partners

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Questions for Your JourneyWhich global partners have you visited or would you like to visit on a People-to-People Pilgrimage?

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How did your pilgrimage transform your thinking and life?

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What gifts of ministry did you receive from our global partners?

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People-to-People Pilgrimages are trips taken by groups at the invitation of our global partners to share a 7 to 10 day journey of faith and solidarity with open hands and hearts. Sometimes the cross-cultural experience may include a work project, but not always. In nearly every case, pilgrimage participants are transformed as they share life with their brothers and sisters in another country.

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Countries named on the map are Global Ministries’ current mission sites.

Brazil

Argentina

ParaguayChile

Ecuador

Peru

El Salvador

Mexico

Nicaragua

Puerto Rico

Haiti

Dominican RepublicHonduras

Jamaica

Congo(Brazzaville)

Congo(Zaire)

Kenya

Mozambique

Zimbabwe

Botswana

Namibia

AngolaZambia

SouthAfrica

Ghana

TogoSierraLeone

SwazilandLesotho

LebanonIsrael/Palestine

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India

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Laos

Indonesia

Hong Kong

Australia

New Zealand

Japan

China

Egypt

Sudan

United Kingdom

Italy

SwitzerlandFrance Bosnia

Greece

Cyprus

IraqIran

Syria

Jordan

Armenia

Costa Rica

Guatemala

Belize

Mongolia

North Korea

South Korea

Taiwan

Philippines

PapuaNew Guinea

Solomon Islands

MarshallIslands

FijiIslands

American SamoaWestern Samoa

Kiribati

Vanuatu

Micronesia

Pakistan

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Myanmar(Burma)

Kampuchea(Cambodia)

Vietnam

Malaysia

Singapore

Timor Lorosa'e(East Timor)

Uruguay

Guadalupe andMartinique

Hungary

GermanyPoland

Bulgaria

Turkey

Cuba

Canada

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GuyanaColombia

• Mark a place where you have a special interest as a result of reading, studying or knowing someone who comes from that country.

• Mark where you have traveled or would like to travel.

• Highlight the countries where you know a person in mission or a global partner church organization.

WHERE WE SERVE IN THE WORLD

Sharing in community with others around the world means we speak out on issues of peace and justice, poverty and human rights and the integrity of creation. Global Advocacy and Education staff raise awareness, encourage action in local congregations, and work ecumenically in Washington, DC and at the United Nations to bring faithful public witness to critical policy questions. Advocacy priorities are discerned in dialogue with global partners.

Questions for Your JourneyOn which advocacy/justice issues are you or your local church committed to work?

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What are some of the global facts or stories which are pushing you to action?

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Questions for Your JourneyWhat does your church give to Our Church’s Wider Mission (UCC) or Disciples Mission Fund and One Great Hour of Sharing (UCC) or Disciples Week of Compassion?

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How is your congregation participating in “over and above” special giving for Global Ministries?

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How are you being called to give to God’s global mission through Global Ministries?

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Global Ministries is funded in part by Disciples Mission Fund, the Disciples Easter Offering, Our Church’s Wider Mission (UCC), Disciples Week of Compassion, and One Great Hour of Sharing (UCC), plus various UCC and Disciples endowments and generous donors like you!

The Resource and Financial Development staff works with individuals, congregations, regions and conferences on:

• Special giving opportunities

• Support of mission personnel

• Alternative Christmas giving

• Planned gifts and endowments

• Making a will or a charitable gift annuity

• Unconventional ways to give or fundraise

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Questions for Your JourneyIs God calling you or your church to sponsor a child? If so, how will you get started?

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Where do you sponsor a child and what is that child’s name and birthday?

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We can change the world by educating a child. The Child Sponsorship program provides an opportunity to extend a helping hand to aid a child at risk. A commitment to sponsoring a child provides housing, clothing, food, education, and basic health care until age eighteen. Currently there are 15 centers run by our global partners and over 1,100 children are sponsored by UCC and Disciples members.

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Ministries and Mission Interpreters (MMIs) are part of a network of over 1,000 trained UCC and Disciples interpreters. MMIs commit to using their gifts as volunteers to share the story and help their local church, region or conference to actively engage in God’s global mission. Global Ministries also offers a special program for Disciples and UCC seminarians called the Council of Theological Students.

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INTERPRETING GLOBAL MISSIONQuestions for Your Journey:How is God calling you to be a Ministries and Mission Interpreter (MMI) or a part of the Council of Theological Students?

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What are your gifts to share the story of God’s global mission?

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When did you attend an MMI training and what are some of the discoveries you made during the event?

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Thank you for being our traveling companion on this

CRITICAL PRESENCE JOURNEY with our global partners.

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Everything you need for your journey can be found at www.globalministries.org

• Brief weekly email updates

• Weekly prayer, programs and events

• Video mission moments, blogs and webinars

• Worship and church school resources

• Global news perspectives from partners

• Mission stories and project opportunities

• Ideas and how-tos

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For additional informationGlobal Ministries/Wider Church Ministries700 Prospect AvenueCleveland, OH 44115-1100

216-736-3204

email: wcm@ucc.org

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Global Ministries/Division of Overseas MinistriesP.O. Box 1986Indianapolis, IN 46206-1986

317-713-2571

email: dom@disciples.org

Your Passport to Global Ministries helps you learn more about the CRITICAL PRESENCE JOURNEY Disciples and UCC members take with our global partners. You are invited to personalize your involvement in God’s global mission on these pages.

Will you travel with us?

You can also find an interactive version of this passport at www.globalministries.org/about-us/passport.html

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