Pray through the news. Rather than allow anxiety and fear to invade your thoughts as you read of world calamities, invite God to move and use these situations for the growth of his Kingdom and the redeeming of his creation.

Subscribe to a bottom line daily pray app reminder:
Joshua Project – www.joshuaproject.net (Unreached of the Day)
Operation World – www.operationworld.org

Bookmark a bottom line prayer website for daily content
Global Prayer Digest – www.globalprayerdigest.org

Watch a prayer video at www.prayercast.com. Subscribe to get notifications when new videos are developed.

Pray with the global church for a religious bloc:
Muslims - https://www.pray30days.org
Hindu - https://pray15days.org
Buddhist - https://buddhistworldprayer.org

Learn more about prayer:
Read a good book:
   Prayer Evangelism – Ed Silvoso
   Pray for the World – Patrick Johnston, Molly Wall
   Intercessory Prayer – Dutch Sheets

Take a course
   https://alliancepray.ca/home/transform-prayer-course/

Useful websites
   www.waymakers.org
   https://www.2414now.net
   www.lovingmuslimstogether.ca/pray

Other ideas:

• Pray through specific scriptures, or incorporate worship songs as you intercede for the nations.
• Pray for your church to be strategically involved in God’s work around the world.
• Make a list of 5 people who you will pray for until they come to the Lord.
• Learn and explore fasting as a complementary means of growing in prayer.
• Find a prayer partner who will grow with you in prayer.
• Prayerwalk your neighborhood, or a neighborhood God puts on your heart.
• Join a prayer group for your Muslim neighbors. Find one at www.lovingmuslimstogether.ca

Take a course:

• Check out other Simply Mobilizing courses www.simplymobilizing.ca
• The Story of the Bible - http://onestorybible.com
• Take Perspectives on the World Christian Movement http://www.perspectivesglobal.org/the-class

Read more:

• The Mission of God's People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission – Christopher J. H. Wright
• Live|Dead Joy – Dick Brogden
• The Only One – Curtis Sargeant
• Declare His Glory Among the Nations – Russ Mitchell
• Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream – David Platt
• Understanding Christian Mission; Participation in Suffering & Glory – Scott Sunquist
• The Church is Bigger than You Think – Patrick Johnstone

Listen to a Podcast:
www.radical.net
www.globalvault.ca
www.globalmissionspodcast.com

Check out https://missionexus.org

Learn how to engage in conversation with someone from a different cultures:
Crossing Cultures course

Understand and engage your Muslim neighbour:
Bridges Course - https://www.crescentproject.org/bridges
Friendship First - http://friendshipfirst.org

Get involved with others:

• International Student Ministries of Canada - https://ismc.ca
• Loving Muslims Together – www.lovingmuslimstogether.ca
• Move In - https://www.movein.to
• Jesus Network - http://www.jesusnetwork.ca
• Check out the closest ESL program in your neighbourhood.

Stay connected!
Start a WhatsApp group with your course buddies to encourage and pray for each other as you take steps to engage with God’s mission.

Gather a small circle of those who are on this journey. Get together to pray and learn.

Grow deeper

• Pray at 10:02 AM every day because of Luke 10:2.
• Read your Bible underlining every time the nations are mentioned.
• Read your Bible looking for the top line/bottom line references and paraphrases.
• You have a story to tell and experiences to share – do so! Don’t be pushy but don’t be shy in inviting others to wrestle with God’s missionary heart.

Become a Mobilizer

• Check out the training steps to help offer Simply Mobilizing courses. Invest in the next step.
• Check out the personal development options for Mobilizers.
• Read more about Mobiology

Support those who are already serving
Ask your church’s Missions Committee how you can support their vision.

Figure out what workers your church is supporting and come alongside them with encouragement and participation in their work.

Read a Member Care book:

• Doing Member Care Well - Kelly O’Donnell
• Worth Keeping - Bill Taylor, Rob Hay, et al.
• Raising Resilient MK’s - Joyce M Bowers & Robertson McQuilkin
• Healthy, Resilient, & Effective in Cross-Cultural Ministry - Laura Mae Gardner
• Trauma & Resilience: Effectively Supporting Those Who Serve God - Frauke Schaefer and Charles Schaefer
• Facing Danger: A Guide Through Risk - Anna Hampton

Check out the MORE Network for ways to walk with missionary families https://more.outreach.ca

Steward what God has given you

• The Treasure Principle – Randy Alcorn
• The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex, and Power – Richard Foster
• When Helping Hurts – Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
• When Charity Destroys Dignity – Glenn Schwartz
• Great Commission Companies – Steven Rundle & Tom Steffen
• A Spirituality of Fundraising – Henri J. M. Nouwen
• The Poor Will Be Glad – Peter Greer
• Video – A Handful of Rice - on youtube

God may be asking you to strategically relocate for business reasons. Check out https://businessasmission.com/ for resources and help.

God may be calling you to an underserved part of the world. Don’t go alone…

• Talk to your church’s mission committee for counsel and help.
• Explore the world and where the gaps are at https://joshuaproject.net/
• Check our your denominational sending structure
• Go with the support and help of a sending structure. There are many options!

Check out:
https://www.missionsfestvancouver.ca/exhibitors
or
https://missionexus.org/directories/directory/#!directory/map
for an partial listing of the many options.