Andrew Sears Executive Director TechMission Generations of Kingdom Ministry: Responding to 5 Trends to Bridge Generational Shifts.

Andrew Sears

Executive Director

TechMission

Generations of Kingdom Ministry:Responding to 5 Trends

to Bridge Generational Shifts

Trend 1: Technology is the language of the next generation.

Top 10 Technology Innovations for Rescue Missions

1. E-mail Newsletters

2. Computer Centers and Computer Based Education

3. Online Volunteer Matching: ChristianVolunteering.org

4. Mailing Lists

5. Distance/Online Learning

Top 10 Technology Innovations for Rescue Missions

6. Social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn

7. Web 2.0: Wikipedia, YouTube and UrbanMinistry.org

8. Internet Filters and Accountability Software

9. Backoffice: donor management, accounting, databases, outcomes tracking

10. Biotech for addiction: cocaine vaccines, biofeedback

Trend 2: Rapid Systemic Change is the norm for the next generation.

Rising Tide Raises All Boats:Change in Income Distribution (1947-1979)

The Rich Get Richer While the Poor Get Poorer: Change in Income (1977-1994)

197

7-19

94

Causes of Change in Income19

79-

1993

Changing Trends in Imprisonment

Global Perspective on Racial Injustice in US

Effects of Increasing Injustice

Advocacy on Systemic Issues

Minimum Wage & Earned Income Tax Credit Sex Industry Crystal Meth Credit Crisis and Bankruptcy Laws Educational Reform Housing & Gentrification Secularization and Moral Creep

Trend 3: Demographic shifts will increase the need for reconciliation.

New Methods in Reconciliation

CCDA Principles: – Relocation: commuting urban ministers are the exception

not the norm– Reconciliation: across race class and gender– Redistribution: addressing systems of injustice– Indigenous Leadership Development

Ethnic identity development– Being White– Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria

Trend 4: As the world increasingly escapes from reality, we will need to be more authentic and real.

Trend 5: As there is increasing fear and distrust of authority, there is a growing need for spiritual fathering.

Bridging the Generational Change

Trend1. Technology

2. Rapid Systemic Change

3. Demographic Change

4. More Escaping Reality

5. Fear and Distrust

Response

1. Innovate

2. Systemic Advocacy

3. Reconciliation

4. Increased Authenticity

5. Spiritual Fathering