ners collaborate by developing cohesive strategies, sharing real-time data, and providing progress updates. Ministries are propelled forward by the shared mission of bringing the Gospel to every village in a specific region until the whole country is reached. And then another. And another.
One Mission Society( OMS) faced the same realization— the task was greater than any one ministry could accomplish alone. Are we willing to work together? Is unity really the key?
Not only did OMS lean into COTW collaboration, but it also offered to lead. OMS continues to demonstrate leadership through quarterly celebration meetings, collaborative problem-solving, and spiritual encouragement. The smiles are bigger, and the impact greater because of the joy of working together.
Today, COTW comprises 30 global ministries and scores of national churchplanting ministries that have joined hands to advance the vision of planting three million churches by 2033, prioritizing the least-reached. The ministry paradigm has shifted since the pioneering days of mission work. This shift has challenged us to ask honest questions and to steward a new paradigm— one of kingdom collaboration.
And those villages I asked my dad about all those years ago? I never imagined that, years later, I would be part of a movement committed to ensuring that every one of those villages in northern Togo has a church within the next two to three years. What once stirred my curiosity now fuels our shared calling.
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