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New Funding Models [Spanish] Nuevos Modelos de Financiación para la Misión Global

Aprendiendo del Mundo Mayoritario
Tim Welch
Tim Welch

Tim Welch served as a missionary in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire for thirty-one years with SIM, including twenty-two years as national director. He began his service there at a Christian publishing house, and currently he serves as, the SIM Ministry Point Person for Literature, based in the US. He received his MA in World Christianity from Denver Seminary and his doctorate in Transformational Leadership from the Université de l'Alliance Chrétienne d'Abidjan in Cote d'Ivoire. Tim has written five books in French on practical theology and two books in English on Africans in the Bible, one for adults and one for children. He was the general editor for the Bible d'étude africaine (CPE, 2015) and a contributor to the Africa Study Bible (Oasis International, 2016). Tim and his wife Janet live in Colorado. They have two children and four grandchildren. 

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Financiación de Misioneros de Cualquier Lugar a Cualquier Lugar

Los tiempos están cambiando y los métodos convencionales de financiación de misioneros están evolucionando. Las iglesias en África, Asia y América Latina ya no dependen de la financiación occidental para enviar a sus propios misioneros. ¿Cómo entonces financia el Mundo Mayoritario a los misioneros?

Los Nuevos Modelos de Financiamiento para la Misión Global comienza resumiendo cómo se ha financiado la misión mundial desde el pasado hasta el presente. Luego critica el enfoque común de recaudación de fondos en el que los misioneros recaudan su propio apoyo financiero y sugiere posibles ajustes. Tim Welch presenta diecisiete modelos de financiamiento que son opciones más adecuadas para los misioneros contemporáneos, junto con un resumen de lo que la Biblia dice sobre el financiamiento misionero. Concluye con quince recomendaciones prácticas para individuos, iglesias y agencias de misión.

Este libro busca ofrecer un liderazgo profético con el fin de cambiar sistemas y prácticas para dotar de recursos de manera exitosa a los misioneros. Nuevos modelos, mejor adaptados a la situación en la que se encuentra la iglesia global, proporcionan más financiamiento y oportunidades para glorificar al Señor entre las naciones.

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Financing Mission from Anywhere to Everywhere

Times are changing, and conventional methods of funding missionaries are shifting. Churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America no longer depend on Western funding for sending out their own missionaries. How then does the Majority World fund missionaries?

New Funding Models for Global Mission begins by summarizing how world missions has been funded from the past to the present. It then critiques the common fundraising approach where missionaries raise their own financial support and suggests possible adjustments. Tim Welch presents seventeen other funding models that are more appropriate options for contemporary missionaries, along with an overview of what the Bible says about missionary funding. He concludes with fifteen practical recommendations for individuals, churches, and mission agencies.

This book seeks to give prophetic leadership in order to change systems and practices for successfully resourcing missionaries. New models—better suited to the situation in which the global church finds itself—provide more funding and opportunities to glorify the Lord among the nations.

  • ste libro bien investigado será de beneficio para toda la iglesia, especialmente en el Mundo Mayoritario. Tim presenta sugerencias prácticas y aplicables sobre cómo obtener y utilizar financiamiento en la misión.
    — Peter Tarantal, Director Internacional Asociado, OM
  • Este es un libro muy informativo e inspirador para los trabajadores en misión que desean obtener ideas creativas sobre cómo financiar sus ministerios.
    — David S. Lim, PhD, Presidente de la Junta, Lausana Filipinas
  • Enviar trabajadores del Reino a los no alcanzados será significativamente obstaculizado a menos que ampliemos nuestros horizontes y practiquemos nuevos modelos de apoyo. Tim proporciona una rica lista de posibilidades para estimular nuestro pensamiento y ofrece soluciones pragmáticas.
    — Mutua Mahiaini, Presidente Internacional, Los Navegantes
  • Tim Welch ha escrito un enfoque bien documentado sobre la vital cuestión del financiamiento de la misión global. Es una lectura obligada para donantes de misiones, fundaciones, misioneros potenciales y líderes de misiones.LuIs.
    — Luis Bush, Presidente, Transform World Connections

Reconocimientos

Capítulo 1: ¿Por qué estudiar este tema?

Capítulo 2: Financiamiento misionero en el pasado y en el presente

Capítulo 3: ¿Qué está en juego?

Capítulo 4: Financiamiento misionero 1.0—Pros y contras

Capítulo 5: Ajustando la tradición

Capítulo 6: Financiamiento misionero 2.0

Capítulo 7: Beneficios del financiamiento misionero 2.0

Capítulo 8: ¿Qué dice la Biblia acerca del apoyo misionero?

Capítulo 9: Una nueva posición económica

Capítulo 10: El mayor miedo de un pastor

Capítulo 11: ¿Y qué?Apéndice: La nueva posición económica de África

Apéndice 1: Dos categocrías de financiación para misiones

Apéndice 2: La nueva posición económica de África

Lista de referencias

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Chapter 1: Why Study This Topic?

Chapter 2: Missionary Funding Past and Present

Chapter 3: What’s at Stake?

Chapter 4: Missionary Funding 1.0—Pros and Cons

Chapter 5: Tweaking Tradition

Chapter 6: Mission Funding 2.0

Chapter 7: Benefits of Mission Funding 2.0

Chapter 8: What Does the Bible Say about Missionary Support

Chapter 9: A New Economic Standing

Chapter 10: A Pastor’s Greatest Fear

Chapter 11: So What?

Appendix: Africa’s New Economic Standing

Acknowledgments

Reference List

Author

  • Tim Welch
    Tim Welch

    Tim Welch served as a missionary in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire for thirty-one years with SIM, including twenty-two years as national director. He began his service there at a Christian publishing house, and currently he serves as, the SIM Ministry Point Person for Literature, based in the US. He received his MA in World Christianity from Denver Seminary and his doctorate in Transformational Leadership from the Université de l'Alliance Chrétienne d'Abidjan in Cote d'Ivoire. Tim has written five books in French on practical theology and two books in English on Africans in the Bible, one for adults and one for children. He was the general editor for the Bible d'étude africaine (CPE, 2015) and a contributor to the Africa Study Bible (Oasis International, 2016). Tim and his wife Janet live in Colorado. They have two children and four grandchildren. 

  • Pages: 160
  • Publisher: William Carey Publishing
    William Carey Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publish Year: 2025
  • ISBN: 9781645085393
  • Vendor: William Carey Publishing
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