About Global Outreach
Purpose
Global Outreach is a Casas adult support ministry chartered to help Bible Fellowships send their members to help Casas Global Workers share Jesus and start churches among indigenous people outside our circle of influence (culture, language, or nation).
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 them to initiate trips that send their members to do field work with a Casas-supported global worker who can receive teams.
Initiative 2: Supporting our Long-term Global Workers
Objective: Lead participants in the Sunday morning experience to provide relational, practical and financial support to Casas Global Workers; affirm and then facilitate God’s call on the lives of Casas members to become Casas global workers.
Driving Force Values
There are several 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 everyone. 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 global outreach.
2. We believe that our efforts should result in the establishing of churches by and for indigenous peoples.
3. We believe that least-reached people groups should have priority over any other Casas’ outreach effort.
4. We believe that the GO Process reaches its full potential by engaging, honoring, and partnering with Senders, Goers, Casas Global Workers, and Indigenous Hearers.
5. We believe this multi-sided partnership reaches its full potential when trips are structured so that each partner is taking an active role helping the other partners fulfill their purpose. This would include the Global Worker helping the Goers reach Casas’ purpose for them - for example, gaining confidence in investing and inviting, and the Goers and Senders helping the Global Worker fulfill their strategic purpose and goals.
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, global workers, and indigenous hearers together with each other and with God in an intimate way.
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 others as well as you love yourself.' These two commands are pegs; everything in God's Law and the Prophets hangs from them." Matthew 22:37-40 (The Message)
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 senders, goers, global workers, and indigenous hearers 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.
