How Youth With A Mission is establishing a cross-generational, collaborative mobilization and online learning platform fostering missional partnerships between students, field project hosts, mentors, and donors worldwide. It's called the Internship Placement & Outreach Connection: ipoconnection.org,

1. A New Platform
for Global
Missional
Partnerships.
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Hi, I’m John Henry.
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Founder & CEO of
the UofN Student Mobilization
Centre of Youth With A Mission,
Inc.

2. I thought I was breaking the mold…
As a faith missionary with YWAM, I have
facilitated 75 internship teams...
With students from over 100 universities
in 9 countries...
Integrating their fields of study with
service...
To projects serving the poor in 35
countries.

3. But our students were mostly
from the Western World.

4. Here’s what I saw along the way.
Indian & Korean
missionaries leading
student fellowships all
over India.

5. YWAM
leaders from
Madagascar
working on
campus in
four cities
their nation.

6. I have worked with hundreds of young
Korean leaders engaging university
communities in 35 countries.

7. Chinese church planters leading tens of
thousands in universities in 6 cities.
The movement plans to send one million
new missionaries in the next decade .

8. The World has changed.

9. 1800AD
1509AD
1054AD
330AD
90AD
The new Majority Church
is in the Global South
God’s Church does
not have a mission;
God’s Mission has a
Church with many
centers.
33AD
75% of Church is now
outside the West and has little
attachment to Western traditions,
identity, and legacy.
(Roman/Greek/Protestant)
2011AD

10. And this new world is FLAT...
More connected.
•
Nigeria has100 million mobile phone
lines.
•
Kenya’s mobile phone sales increased
more than 200% in 2009.
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There are 650 million mobile phones
In Africa.
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far more than U.S. and Europe.

11. Question
How do we respond to this growing
opportunity to share Jesus Christ
and mobilize a new generation?

12. This question led to many more...
How can we mobilize volunteers
from anywhere to everywhere?

13. How can we foster
missional partnerships?

14. What is a missional community?

15. And how can they be involved now?

16. Here’s our response to the opportunity:
Internship Placement & Outreach Connection
IPOConnection.org

17. Internship Placement & Outreach
Connection
is a
sustainable,
high-impact,
culturally immersive,
and community driven
online missions matching,
training and mobilization program
of
Youth With A Mission.

18. The IPO Connection
will
resource hundreds of partner projects
serving
communities in need
with
student and volunteers
through
a cloud-based student and volunteer
matching, training, and placement
program.

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20. And this new site
is set to launch in
2014.

21. What is IPO?
• A new mobilization tool matching students
from anywhere to field projects in needy
communities all over the world.
• Mentors guide students through our online
course (50 short videos), preparing them to
discern their life-work calling.
• Hosts initiate with a simple app, get
validated by a YWAM missionary.
• The mission world becomes flat.

22. Hybrid Curriculum Delivery
Internship
Timeline
Phase 1
Phase 2
Online
Course
Orientation
Enculturation
Mentor
Meetings
Remote
Contact
Flexible Schedule
Individualized
Learning
Videos
Readings
Phase 4
Field Interviews
Project Proposal
Phase 3
Prayer & Goals
Written Report
Assessment
Field Project
Monitoring Progress
Phase 5
Debriefing
Student
Evaluation
Debriefing
Course & Mentor
Evaluation

23. Personas
Connecting to the IPO
Students
(Mobile Learners)
Mentors
(Remote Encouragers)
Donors
(Personally Engaged)
Field Hosts
(Showing Hospitality)
This is Missional Community.

24. Field Hosts
Hosts initiate with a
simple online app, get
validated by a YWAM
missionary, and publish
their project on our
site.
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Hosts receive students to serve projects in THEIR
community.
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Hospitality may be the most strategic of all missional
activity, important for the early church to overcome.

25. Students
The most connected, well travelled, crosscultural, and socially conscious generation.
Students search the site from anywhere to
serve the project that best fits their schedule,
passion, and field of study.
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So you must go and make disciples... Matthew 28:19

26. Mentors
Mentors guide students
through online IPO
course (50 short videos),
preparing them to serve
and discern their lifework calling.
Mentors are experienced YWAMers (or former YWAMers).
They are mature Christ-followers, cross-culturally
experienced, technically capable & project oriented.

27. Donors
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Donors make a personal
connection with students
and projects serving
communities they are
passionate about.
•
Donors control giving &
leverage gifts to expand
capacity.
•
Donors will see results,
including global reach
and local depth.

28. Development of the
IPO Connection
has been a
2 year process.

29. Pray with us!
We seek qualified long-term
candidates and financial
supporters to launch and sustain
this missions mobilization and
training ministry.

30. Key Long Term!
Staff Needed

31. Education & Community
Development Director
1. Develop & Improve
training curriculum.
2. Recruit, equip, and
evaluate qualified
Mentors.
3. Direct a weekly online
reporting, training, and
fellowship gathering for
Mentors.
Recruit
Mentors
Train
Mentors
Curriculum
Development
IPO
Course
Evaluate
Mentors
Human
Resources
This person will have
completed YWAM’s
Discipleship Training School.

32. Accountant & Development
Director Grant
1. Oversee bookkeeping of
all online fund raising,
receipting, and
reporting.
2. Grant writing, creative
fund raising and
budgeting.
3. Direct a monthly
reporting of cash flow,
income and expenses.
Writing
Fund
Mgmt
Development
Budget
All
Fund
Raising
Bookkeeping
&
Reporting
This person will have
completed YWAM’s
Discipleship Training School.

33. Marketing Director
Social
Media
Possess advanced social
media, event management, and
branding skills
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Manage Desk.com and Email
systems
IPO
Site
!
Direct a weekly reporting,
training, and fellowship
gathering for support
evangelists.
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Coordinate all Public IPO
messaging strategy at Events
and through Publications
PR
Brand
Email
Events
This person will have
completed YWAM’s
Discipleship Training School.

34. IT Administrator Manager
This person will assist with
oversight of Support
Evangelists and maintain
quality and integrity of
information systems,
including:
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•
•
•
Salesforce
Social
Media
Desk.com
!
Social Media
Desk.com
Salesforce
Mobile Apps
and Rails.
Ruby on
Rails
Mobile
Apps
This person will have
completed YWAM’s
Discipleship Training School.

35. Support Evangelists
These key support people will be
part time.
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They will have a strong positive
attitude and desire to innovate
and recalibrate missions for a new
generation.
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They must understand the need
and opportunity to use social
media to communicate and
respond to a global network.
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•
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Candidates will:
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Possess basic social media skills
Practice excellent phone skills
Be available for immediate
response at least 4 hours per day.
Attend a weekly reporting,
training, and fellowship gathering.

36. How can you be involved now?
1. Partner in Prayer

37. How can you be involved now?
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2. Recruit Mentors:

38. How can you be involved now?
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3. Tell Project Hosts:

39. How can you be involved now?
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4. Tell
Students:

40. How can you be involved now?
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5. Donate:
Prioritize your missions giving strategy.
YWAM Office rent and utilities: $1500/
month.

41. I invite you to make
this new partnership
platform part of your
community’s
missional strategy.
Donate at:
www.uofnsmc.net
John Henry
john.henry@uofn.edu