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Webinar: Recruitment or Mobilization? What’s the Difference and Why it Matters

Webinar: Recruitment or Mobilization? What’s the Difference and Why it Matters

Is there a difference between recruiting new missionaries and mobilizing them? ...
Webinar: Mobilization DNA – What Greg Livingstone Taught Me (and What Churches & Mobilizers Still Need Today)

Webinar: Mobilization DNA – What Greg Livingstone Taught Me (and What Churches & Mobilizers Still Need Today)

Having been shaped by 14 years of mentorship under the late Greg Livingstone, this webinar will share a mobilization approach ...
Kingdom-focused collaboration for mobilization and spiritual growth.

Mobilization: From Recruitment to Spiritual Direction

The shift from a recruitment-based paradigm to a spiritual direction model represents a fundamental philosophical change in North American missionary ...
Diagram illustrating kingdom-minded collaboration among mission organizations.

Mobilization: Kingdom Minded Collaboration

Kingdom-minded collaboration is a strategic and theological framework in which mission organizations prioritize a candidate's optimal placement—even if it means ...
Diagram illustrating the short-term missions pipeline process.

Mobilization: Short-Term Pipeline

Research across 18+ mission organizations reveals that while short-term missions excel at inspiration, they often fail at integration, leaving a ...
Webinar: Engaging Gen Z: What Research Says About the Attitudes and Behaviors of this Emerging Generation

Webinar: Engaging Gen Z: What Research Says About the Attitudes and Behaviors of this Emerging Generation

You will discover practical guidelines in this webinar for designing communications and opportunities that resonate with Gen Z ...
Church partnership in missionary sending with global connections and infrastructure.

Mobilization: Church Partnerships

The local church is defined as the primary sender of missionaries, while mission agencies function as facilitators that support this ...
Webinar: Peer2Peer Virtual Discipleship Series - Help! My Pastor Doesn't Seem to Care About Missions!

Webinar: Peer2Peer Virtual Discipleship Series – Help! My Pastor Doesn’t Seem to Care About Missions!

Across churches of all sizes and traditions, mission advocates often feel the tension of trying to cultivate a global vision ...
Mobilization: Gen-Z

Mobilization: Gen-Z

Mobilization of the next Generation of missionaries is always a relevant and timely issue!  Following are a series of tools ...
Empowering missions mobilization through strategic organizational dimensions and leadership insights.

Mobilization: Organizational Health

Research indicates that mobilization effectiveness is fundamentally rooted in organizational health, as modern candidates—particularly Gen Z—carefully scrutinize internal dynamics like ...
Mobilization: Infrastructure

Mobilization: Infrastructure

Mobilization succeeds only as far as an organization’s overall health—Gen Z quickly disengages from agencies that seem outdated or disorganized ...
Gen Z and Missions (2026)

Gen Z and Missions (2026)

This Missiographic explores how Gen Z believers perceive and engage with cross-cultural missions, drawing on responses from 440 aspiring missionaries ...
Church Mission Leader Thought Leader Briefing: The Sending Shepherd - Leading the Church to Disciple All Nations

Church Mission Leader Thought Leader Briefing: The Sending Shepherd – Leading the Church to Disciple All Nations

More than 7,200 people groups still have little to no access to the Gospel. Where does the American Church really ...
Webinar: Recruiting Gen Z: What Urbana’s Latest Research Says About the Attitudes and Behaviors of this Emerging Generation

Webinar: Recruiting Gen Z: What Urbana’s Latest Research Says About the Attitudes and Behaviors of this Emerging Generation

You will discover from this webinar practical guidelines for how to design communications and opportunities that resonate with Gen Z ...
New Ministry Expansion Kit Empowers Cross-Cultural Workers to Harness the Impact of Virtual Volunteering

New Ministry Expansion Kit Empowers Cross-Cultural Workers to Harness the Impact of Virtual Volunteering

To bridge this gap, Switchboard (globalswitchboard.io), in collaboration with Christar (christar.org) and Pioneers (pioneers.org), is launching the Ministry Expansion Kit, ...
Webinar: Short-Term Missions: Before, During & After

Webinar: Short-Term Missions: Before, During & After

How do we plan for long term personal change? ...
Webinar: Youth Missions - Is it Worth it?

Webinar: Youth Missions – Is it Worth it?

We will explore how our missiology and orthopraxy will answer the question for us about whether youth missions have any ...
Webinar: Proactive, Church-Based Missionary Recruitment and Sending

Webinar: Proactive, Church-Based Missionary Recruitment and Sending

Without an intentional strategy to recruit and send missionaries to the nations, most churches might send a missionary every now ...
Webinar: How to be an Effective Church Missions Leader

Webinar: How to be an Effective Church Missions Leader

What are some effective ways a CML can influence the congregation? ...
Reimagining North American Global Missions Engagement

Reimagining North American Global Missions Engagement

By Valerie Althouse | I am a White American woman who grew up in a white majority church that emphasized ...