2030 paradox sending vision
Laying out the goals of our church to send out laborers to the nations in response to Christ’s commission to make disciples of all nations.
the vision
It is estimated that the unreached peoples of the world could be fully engaged with church planting efforts with an additional 66,000 laborers committed to the task (thetravelingteam.org). The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. In response to the mandate of scripture and the current realities of lostness among peoples to whom there is no evangelistic effort capable of completing the work, we strive to send out laborers from our fold to go after the lost sheep of the world whom Christ died to purchase.
the target
The question only remains: who will go? And how many?
These are not questions to which we can have concrete answers, but a vision that takes the task seriously includes metrics that would stretch our faith and cause us to fall before God constantly crying that unless he builds it, we labor in vain.
There will be many measurables on this journey, but the end goal of healthy, multiplying churches among unreached peoples helps us to focus on the controllable that for all our wisdom we see as crucial: deployment of healthy long-term laborers.
So what is the number? How do we land on it? I submit that it’s two fold: a measured look at what our current mobilization pipeline is capable of supporting over time, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit in faith.
THE PIPELINE
The mobilization team at the Paradox church (consisting of Ben and Hannah Kelly [PT] and Morgan Frey) is the bottle-neck for sending. The sending pipeline culminates in the 9-month Launch Community, and capacity of this community and our ability to lead it well is the primary limiting factor on sending. The Launch Global rule of thumb is 3 participants per full-time mobilizer is a healthy but full ratio. Based on current team size, this means that the current capacity is 7 participants (2.5 mobilizers). Our ideal team size would include 1 more full-time male mobilizer to bring our capacity to 10 participants. Here is a breakdown of our projected training capacity from now until 2030
23-24: 4 goers + 1 new mobilizer (This years current reality)
24-25: 6 goers + 1 new mobilizer (the prayer - already a stretch)
25-26: 10 goers
26-27: 10 goers
27-28: 10 goers
28-29: 10 goers
By 2030 = ~50 launch community graduates @ 70% deployment rate = 35 deployed goers
30 Goers deployed from Paradox, 5 from associate churches in Fort Worth
Or how we want to couch it…. 30 by 30
THE HOLY SPIRIT
The reality of mobilization is that our pipeline can only be full if the people of Paradox are called into the work. A full pipeline 5 years in a row would be beyond our own ability to conjure up. According to past experience, this ask is huge. It will take earnest and concerted prayer, it will take massive generosity both on the church funds and the individuals who will be called to support each goer directly. It will take challenging preaching and instilling apostolic fervor into our congregants. It will take God moving in a miraculous way to confirm and empower his church to give of itself to bless the nations.
If we believe that God has given us a call to join him in bringing the knowledge of his glory to the ends of the earth, if we trust that the saturation of Fort Worth with the Glory and Grace of Jesus will undoubtedly overflow to other cities and nations, then we must accept the call wholeheartedly. We must put our money, and our most precious resource; our people, where our mouth is. If we picked up 30 people from Paradox today, that would be 4% of our partners. We want to give 4% of ourselves to the 40% of the world that is unreached by the Gospel.
