Christian Cultural Engagement
DTS values the cultivation of knowledge
and skills that enable high awareness and effective navigation of cross-cultural dynamics,
resulting in effective contextualization and service in a variety of cultural contexts.
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SPECIFIC
Personal Goal: By September 1, I will partner with missionaries in North Africa to offer financial and spiritual support.
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Spiritual Goal: By September 2024, I will have our local church also partner with this same missionaries in North Africa to offer spiritual and financial support.
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MEASURABLE
Personal Goal: I will reach out and schedule a meeting with Michael and Christy Fayomi by the end of December 2024.
Ministry Goal: I will ensure the church is actively interceding and praying for the Fayomi’s.
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ACHIEVABLE:
PERSONAL GOAL: I will personal donate $150 monthly starting September 2024.
MINISTRY GOAL: I will ensure our church does the same starting September 2024.
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RELEVANT:
PERSONAL GOAL: This is relevant because it connects my heart and finances to supporting missionaries who are reaching unreached people groups with the gospel.
MINISTRY GOAL: This goal is relevant because it connects our church’s heart and finances to actively living out the Great Commission by supporting those who are reaching unreached people groups with the gospel.
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TIME BASED
PERSONAL GOAL: These personal contributions will be made over the next 12 months.
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MINISTRY GOAL: These monthly contributions from the church will be made monthly over a time period of
A year.
Christian Cultural Engagement
SMART Goals
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Christian Cultural Engagement :
Personal Goal: Excel Spreadsheets Demonstrating Personal Contributions
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Ministry Goal: Excel Spreadsheets Demonstrating Church Contributions and a Video from the Fayomi’s Documenting their Progress.
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Christian Cultural Engagement Reflections:
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Overall Reflection Statement
For my competence in Christian Cultural Engagement, I have attached an spreadsheet documenting my personal contributions towards missionaries who serve to share gospel locally and globally. This includes serving unsheltered populations with food and clothing in the city of Houston. It also includes serving the poor in downtown Houston and also a missionary family located in North Africa as they seek to take the gospel of Jesus to unreached people groups there. My personal support consists of monthly contributions monthly check-ins with the missions team at our church as we serve the city and quarterly check-ins with the missionaries in North Africa.
Learning Reflection Statement
As I developed and demonstrated Christian engagement, I witnessed first hand the
challenges that many of our poor and marginalized populations faced in the city.
Beyond personal contributions, I would join our missions team first hand as they
Struggle with severe mental health challenges and its resulting disabilitation. Having said that, through the pooled resources we are able to serve them with warm food and gently used clothing monthly. Similarly, sharing the gospel in unreached people groups in North Africa is dangerous work. I just recently learned that some of the locals received jail sentences after getting caught publicly evangelizing. Not easy stuff but keeps us humbled in prayer for them and committed to supporting them financially.
Lifelong Learning Reflection Statement
Per serving the mentally unstable and poor in the city, we wrestle with the tension of how limited we feel our impact is as the issues they deal with are chronic. Having said that we remain committed to the cause. I do intend to read the book “ When Helping Hurts” however to hopefully shed some light on how to best navigate this tension. In addition, happy to report the missionary couple will be visiting us from North Africa in a couple of months and we will continue to pray for and seek to learn and ascertain from them what their needs are and what we can learn from once they return back to the United States for a brief vacation..
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