{"id":4409,"date":"2014-03-26T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2014-03-26T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:07:56","slug":"events-church-connections-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4409","title":{"rendered":"EVENTS: Church Connections Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionexus.org\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Mission Nexus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mission Nexus, in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/welcomingthestranger.com\/coalition\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Church-based Immigrant Ministry Coalition<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/worldrelief.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">World Relief<\/a>, invites pastors, church planters, and mission leaders to a one-day regional event to explore approaches, resources, and partnerships for developing church-based ministry to immigrants, refugees, and international students. Meetings are planned for Baltimore (June 5), Los Angeles (June 12), Toronto (June 17), Chicago (June 19), and Atlanta (June 26).<\/p>\n<p>Each event will include case studies from churches in the U.S. and Canada and presentations by leaders with on-the-ground experience as well as table-group discussions exploring practical application and next steps. Registration includes lunch\u00a0 and a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strangers-Next-Door-Immigration-Migration\/dp\/0830857583\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Strangers Next Door: Migration, Immigration, and Mission<\/a> by J.D. Payne (also one of the presenters).<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missionexus.org\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Learn more or register<\/a>. You can also download a free, related article by World Vision&#8217;s Jenny Yang, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionexus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Immigrants-in-the-US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Immigrants in the US: A Missional Opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/acmiconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Association of Christians Ministering to Internationals<\/a>, sponsoring a national conference in Atlanta, GA May 29-31, and take a look at J.D. Payne&#8217;s recent (free) ebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdpayne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Unreached-Peoples-Least-Reached-Places-Payne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Unreached Peoples, Least Reached Places: An Untold Story of Lostness in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Nexus Mission Nexus, in partnership with Church-based Immigrant Ministry Coalition and World Relief, invites pastors, church planters, and mission leaders to a one-day regional event to explore approaches, resources, and partnerships for developing church-based ministry to immigrants, refugees, and international students. Meetings are planned for Baltimore (June 5), Los Angeles (June 12), Toronto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENTS: Church Connections Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}