2013 Annual Report - The Foursquare Church

2013 Foursquare Cabinet Foursquare Missions International
• Over-­‐centralized approach to national church government which places an inordinate
fiscal and personnel burden upon these national churches and their bivocational
leadership.
• Lack of bicultural U.S. ministers willing to encourage, equip and resource our overseas
partners.
• Lack of mutual understanding of and shared pursuit of solutions for paternalistic and
patristic practices that hinder growth and influence because of “one church, one
Foursquare registration.”
Opportunities
The top five present opportunities for US Foursquare participation and contribution are:
• Japan – partnership with JFGC to plant churches in the disaster areas of Tohoku and to
leadership development in Greater Tokyo and Osaka (population 63 million combined).
• Korea – partnership with ALU in church planting among foreign workers from North
Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe.
• Mongolia – opportunities to equip, encourage, empower and resource a rapidly growing
metro mix of nomads and urbanites in the city marketplaces of business, education and
government.
• Taiwan – church-­‐planting teams welcomed for Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung metro
areas.
Threats
The top five challenges to our partnership and influence in the region are:
• The increasingly heavy burden carried by individual churches and leaders for national
churches.
• The growing weakness of the U.S. dollar making “self-­‐support” happen at too quick a
pace for healthy development of national churches with U.S. Foursquare-­‐patterned
polity.
• Navigation of the relational issues of various Foursquare ministries working in China
amongst the “first, second and third churches.”
• The lack of gifted, prepared and culturally fluent laborers for our region being sent from
the U.S.
• Global lack of awareness and commitment to a four-­‐self missiology in the opening and
development of national works.
SOUTH PACIFIC – Jerry Stott
Vision
• Incredible church planting and evangelism continues to thrive in Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea and Fiji. Every month there are reports of increasing growth and opportunities
to do more. Papua New Guinea medical and social outreach programs continue to open
doors and bring greater influence to Foursquare.
• The continuing vision is church planting in the thousands of other islands throughout
the region and to open new nations in the Pacific with the Foursquare Gospel.
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