Skip to main content

New announcement. Learn more

Churches.

People. Mission. Connected.

Whether you’re an individual, church, mission committee, or eldership team, GC3 invites you to connect, and explore how you can become more missionally focused both locally and globally, discover new mission opportunities, equip your church with practical support, and connect with global mission partners.

Resources

Click thumbnail to view and download

To Sharpen Our Thinking

Articles to make us stop and think.

Caring for Our Own

By Michael Hanson Paul, writing his last letter from a Roman prison, names two kinds of people he has known.  "You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me... The Lord grant mercy toRead more

Adding Value Well: A Long-Term Missionary’s Perspective on Short-Term Teams

Short-term missions can be powerful; however, as people may know, they can also be complicated.  Craig and Nay Greenfield have spent 25 years hosting short-term teams while building ShalomRead more

Wanting to Serve Well: Lessons from a short-term mission project in Vanuatu

Earlier this year, Marina Shannon and a team from Orewa Community Church travelled to Vanuatu to run the children’s and teens’ programme at the SIL Bible Translators annual conference.Read more

Practical Partnering: Church family with Mission Partners

A conversation with Pete Rhodes-Robinson from Onslow Community Church on learning to advocate for and support their Mission Partners well  At GC3, we often hear churches wrestling with what itRead more

Cities – Centres of Problems and Promise.

While the great drift of people to the inner cities catches our attention, we may not have noticed the migration of saints to the suburbs. In the July 1993 edition of The Treasury, Kevin White reflecRead more

Servant Leadership: Mission’s Crucial Export.

Some words can provoke a reaction. I have sometimes spiced up a conversation with friends by dropping in a word that I know will be contentious. These days one such word is ‘Christian’. Sadly,Read more

The Global Gospel Gap

Two thousand years ago, Jesus told us that he will build his Church: “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church…” (Matt. 16:18). After his resurrection, we areRead more

Dynamic Mission

Mission is rapidly changing. The world we live in has seen the spread of churches globally, the increased opportunity to travel, the advancement of communication methods, the rise of multiculturalRead more

The Joy of Justice in World Mission

We live in a world where the cry for justice is regularly heard around our world and across our media screens. The exploitation and severe depravation that is the miserable experience of billions ofRead more

Jesus’ Strategy for Mission

What should our strategy for mission be? That’s a question many books and articles seek to grapple with. But whilst a lot of these strategies are helpful, some proving very successful, they must beRead more

Finishing Well by Overcoming

What does it look like to finish well? It seems that too many of the Lord’s followers, including missionaries, do not finish well. The Lord sets before each of us a different race to run withRead more

Who will Continue your Work?

Last week, I received a newsletter from one of our mission partners who has been faithfully serving the Lord in Asia for many years. His daughter posed a significant question, "Dad, who will continueRead more