Global Impact Report 2019
Global Impact Report 2019
Together that the world may know
On behalf of our mission workers, staff and the Multiply Board, I want to thank you for your support in prayer, giving and sending this past year. 2019 was a year of significant change for us. We released our North American church-planting network C2C, restoring MB church planting back to our regional conferences. In the process, we strengthened our focus on fostering global mission partnerships through MB churches. It was also a year in which we more fully embraced the name Multiply as God’s invitation for all of us to be more fruitful both here and around the world.
For the past 120 years, MB churches have been investing in mission and working together to share the Good News of Christ in word and deed. Today there are many more MB churches outside of North America than there are here, and some of those are a part of church-planting movements that we are learning from through partnership. In this new chapter, where we are supporting and walking alongside the global church, we have many opportunities to be mutually strengthened.
In this report, we want to encourage you with the ways that together we are experiencing fruitfulness and multiplication. This look back provides an opportunity not only to give glory to God, but also to be accountable to you. As you read, please join us in praying for the various people and projects listed in this report, and visit our website (multiply.net) for many more stories, videos and opportunities to get involved.
We appreciate your partnership in mission,
 |
 Randy Friesen |
Together that the world may know
On behalf of our mission workers, staff and the Multiply Board, I want to thank you for your support in prayer, giving and sending this past year. 2019 was a year of significant change for us. We released our North American church-planting network C2C, restoring MB church planting back to our regional conferences. In the process, we strengthened our focus on fostering global mission partnerships through MB churches. It was also a year in which we more fully embraced the name Multiply as God’s invitation for all of us to be more fruitful both here and around the world.
For the past 120 years, MB churches have been investing in mission and working together to share the Good News of Christ in word and deed. Today there are many more MB churches outside of North America than there are here, and some of those are a part of church-planting movements that we are learning from through partnership. In this new chapter, where we are supporting and walking alongside the global church, we have many opportunities to be mutually strengthened.
In this report, we want to encourage you with the ways that together we are experiencing fruitfulness and multiplication. This look back provides an opportunity not only to give glory to God, but also to be accountable to you. As you read, please join us in praying for the various people and projects listed in this report, and visit our website (multiply.net) for many more stories, videos and opportunities to get involved.
We appreciate your partnership in mission,
|
Randy Friesen |
As we learn from one another and embrace interdependence, we will grow in maturity and fruitfulness.
At Multiply, we love the Global Church and we are devoted to bringing different parts of the Body together for mutual learning and increased mission effectiveness. We are captivated by a vision of churches from all around the world working together on a common mission: together that the world may know Jesus.
Why the Name, Multiply?
“Be fruitful and multiply” was God’s first command to humankind in the Bible, and multiplication continues as a prominent theme throughout the Scriptures. With the coming of Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit, this mandate takes on a deeper significance. The Church is now empowered to bear fruit and multiply globally in unprecedented ways for the glory of God. As followers of Jesus, we are all engaged in that mission—we are all called to multiply.
Over our 100-plus-year history as the global mission agency of MB churches in North America, we have carried various names. These have included names like the Committee for Gentile Missions and the American MB Mission Union. Perhaps the name with the longest history and recognition value over the past generation was the Board of Missions and Services (BOMAS), which was adopted in 1966. More recent names have included MBMS International and MB Mission. Now we have entered another new season: Multiply. Regardless of our name, we have always represented the MB churches of North America.
Multiply is a verb. As our current name, it calls us forward into active involvement in mission. It is consistent with the empowering understanding of the priesthood of all believers, where all followers of Jesus are called to live on mission. It connects us to the story of the Early Church when the mission of the first followers of Jesus was at the core of their identity.
The name Multiply is also more acceptable from a security standpoint in restricted contexts where the word “mission” can be problematic. As well, the move away from MB in name is consistent with the choices, for missional reasons, that many MB churches across North America are making in regard to their names. By referring to ourselves as a ministry of MB churches, we will retain Multiply as our shared mission strategy. Let’s be fruitful and multiply together.
North American Church Planting Ministry*
Revenue: $1,852,742 USD
Expense: $3,109,625 USD
*North American Church Planting is shown separately as this area of ministry was released by Multiply in 2019 to continue independently as C2C collective.
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