Mission: Urban

Our team has sat down and hammered out the framework for our goals as a team.  We’ve broken our time in La Plata into three ranges.  Long term Goals are what we want to see happen by the time we leave.  Mid-range Goals are what we hope to see happen in the next two years.  Short Term Goals are what we plan to accomplish this year.

We know that many of these goals are not attainable by human effort.  To that end we are committed to focusing our prayer toward these goals.  We hope you will use them as you pray for us!  All of us have individual goals this year related to the team goals as well.  If you want to download a hard copy with the Dunlevy personal goals as well, just click here.

Long Term Goal for Ministry in Argentina:

• For our team to gain experience in church planting, the Spanish language, and Argentine culture so that in 5 years we can be redeployed.

Mid Term two year goals (to be completed by the end of 2010):

• For our team to be healthy and stable enough to return to complete a second term in La Plata.  Most of our team is in their first term in Argentina. Our first goal is to make sure that they can stay healthy spiritually, physically, and relationally as they navigate life in a cross-cultural setting.

• To add an Argentine couple to our church planting team.  We want our church planting team to be multi-cultural. We are praying for an Argentine single or couple to join our team by moving permanently into the neighborhood and working with us.

Short Term one year goals (to be completed by March 2010):

• To establish a healthy working relationship as a team, and have a strong understanding of our unique team dynamic.  Any time people work together in a high pressure, spiritually charged environment, conflict is inevitable. We are committed to working toward healthy ways of relating to one another and growing in our understanding of how to best love, serve, and submit to one another.

• To mutually encourage and strengthen one another spiritually through:

1. Regular weekly accountability, prayer meetings multiple times a week, and team planning meetings weekly.
2. A regular rotation of caring for one another’s children so as to provide each couple with needed time alone
3. The processing of cross-cultural books and resources as a team
4. Reading through the Bible in a week as a team in order to study the topic of joy and suffering

• To host a team from the United States that will dedicate itself to “foundation laying prayer”.  We want to see a team come to La Plata that will dedicate itself to a week of spiritual warfare and encouragement through intensive prayer. It is our hope that this team or teams will be made up of people from our sending churches.

• To foster relationships with Argentine national believers in the hopes of finding teammates through:

1. Involvement in an evangelical church in another part of La Plata
2. Participation in the 100 year anniversary of the Brethren Church in Argentina
3. Involvement in Brethren national camps in January

Long Term Goal for Ministry in Argentina:

• To lay a foundation for a church with national leadership and that will eventually reproduce.

Mid Term two year goals (to be completed by the end of 2010):

• To have three Hora Felices running in our neighborhood.  The Hora Feliz is a children’s program that helps to generate new contacts. It is similar to a Good News Club.

• To have 300 contacts among the team members.  A contact is any person that you can regularly plan to see. As a team, we hope to have 300 people whom we can be targeting through prayer and regular visits.

• To have a minimum of 15 evangelistic Bible studies as a team.  Our primary form of evangelism is to engage unbelievers with the Bible through reading the book of John. We hope to have 15 unbelievers actively engaged in regularly reading the Bible.

• To have five baptized believers in the discipleship process

• To bless our community in one major tangible way that will serve to identify us as members of God’s Kingdom to the neighborhood.

Short Term one year goals (to be completed by March 2010):

• To have two Hora Felices running in our neighborhood

• To have 100 contacts as a team

• To have three people involved in evangelistic Bible studies

• To have shared one of the “Seven Signs of John” with at least 50 contacts.  The Seven Signs of John is a way of sharing stories of Jesus’ miracles with unbelievers. It is a simple, contextual way of talking about the person of Jesus with someone open to conversation. It often leads to the opportunity to pray with a contact or create the potential for an evangelistic study of John.

• To hold at least one major evangelistic event.  We are looking for the opportunity to establish our identity as people who serve others in the name of Christ. We hope to hold an event like “Family Movie Night in the Park” or something similar next summer.

• To identify a project to provide a tangible blessing to the community.  We hope to spend this year understanding our neighborhood and its needs. Whatever project we undertake must make sense culturally and provide real help or encouragement to the people here.

• To find a school in our target area that would be appropriate for our children to attend.