Purpose
The Global Outreach team is a Casas adult support ministry chartered to help Bible Fellowships send Casas people outside their normal spheres of influence (culture, language, or nation) to make disciples of Jesus, to mentor new followers of Christ, to start new churches, and to partner with existing churches to make disciples of Christ.
Strategic Initiatives
Two strategic initiatives provide the framework for all that we do.
Initiative 1: GO Process
Objective: Help Bible Fellowships understand relational local/global outreach and lead Bible Fellowships to initiate trips that send their members to do field work with a Casas-supported missionary who can receive teams.
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Initiative 2: Supporting our Long-term Missionaries
Objective: Affirm and facilitate God’s call on the lives of Casas members to become long-term or career missionaries and to lead regular participants in the Sunday morning experience to provide relational, practical and financial support to those from Casas who have been accepted to do work with Casas-approved sending agencies.
Driving Force Values
There are three driving values or beliefs that are foundational to our work and influence all we do:
1. We believe that relational cross-cultural outreach is for every person and every Bible Fellowship. It is a normal response both to God’s love and to his instruction. We believe God expects that response from every Christ-follower, not just the few who are blessed with the spiritual gift of evangelism or a prior passion for missions.
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We believe that our efforts should result in the establishing of churches by and for indigenous peoples.
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We believe that least-reached people groups should have priority over any other Casas’ outreach effort. (read the story of The Island)
Priority of Casas Global Outreach:
The people of Casas helping start new churches within least-reached people groups in Tucson and around the world.
Least-Reached People Groups
Groups that are closed to, and isolated from, the normal sphere of influence of the Church where we need to go across barriers of culture, language, or distance in order to start new churches and partner with existing churches to reach their communities.
Relational Global Outreach
From the very beginning of creation, Scripture teaches that in a perfect universe, even before sin, people had a problem – aloneness:
“It is not good for man to be alone…” (Genesis 2:18)
Relational global outreach meets the need of aloneness by bringing goers, senders, and hosts together with God in an intimate way. It also meets the needs of aloneness by bringing together goers with senders and with hosts.
Jesus taught that the application of all of Scripture is summed up in two principles: loving God and loving others.
“Love the Lord your God…Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:34-40).
The purpose of God revealing Himself to humanity is so that people can intimately know and fellowship with God and each other. The very foundations of our faith are relational – relating to God and to others in agape love. These intimate relationships remove the aloneness inherent in the human condition from the day of creation.
At Casas, when we refer to “relational global outreach,” we mean we are fulfilling Jesus' purpose in the world in a way that brings the senders, goers, and hosts closer to God and to each other. Each party demonstrates love by respecting and valuing (not judging or condemning) each other and freely giving (not taking) to meet the needs of the other party.
Doing relational local/global outreach brings God the highest glory by bringing all parties into intimate relationship with God and each other, fulfilling both God’s dream for humanity from Genesis 2 and Christ’s summary of Scripture in Matthew 22.
