From 33 years of missions and missions environment exposure, I pray to submit as follows: Missions is the responsibility of the established and organized churches. There is a line of commitment and a continual sequence to be maintained. Small independent congregations and home churches cannot do it effectively! The missionary must be trained, accountable, sent, prayed for and cared for. Tentmaking or NGO and even Business and Mission approaches sometimes lack accountability and solid doctrine. Superficial outreach leaves problems behind. Problems that get perpetuated to the detriment of the Church as a whole and future generations. It is considered unfortunate that learned clergy would state that “everybody had heard by now”. It is untrue. It might be accepted that outreach to “Judea” and even “Samaria” might now just be called Evangelism from the Missional churches. But there are continually unreached people. Either because of population growth, overlooked communities, war torn societies or fallen back populations where the churches are persecuted. The process to take the Gospel of Good News to the ends of the earth does not stop. I am disappointed that neither of the Synods of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa have any established and in depth missions departments, while congregations plead ignorance or poverty.
