UPDATE ON DAVID MAYS HOMECOMING WITH JESUS.

Writings

• Audio

  • Making Your Life Count (Sunday morning message, 30 minutes)

  • What is the Bible All About? (Sunday morning message, 25 minutes)

  • What Can One Church Do? (Sunday morning message, 30 minutes)

  • Where is God? (Sunday morning message, 25 minutes)

  • Shooting Sacred Cows (Keynote for Harvest Gathering, 35 minutes)

    Challenging three common notion in missions

    Audio, PowerPoint, Text

• Articles

  • Biblical Foundations for a Missions Strategy

    How do you put it together?

  • Communicating Missions

    Three key elements

  • Four Kinds of Pastors

    The scope of their burdens

  • Four Key Criteria for Missionary Support

  • Mentoring

    Whole Life Mentoring

  • Mission Trips - What Are We Doing?

    One tool in the missions enterprise or the whole caboodle?

  • Missionary (Non)Retirement

    Perspectives for considering continued support for older missionaries

  • Missional Church - Budgets and Scorecards Part I

    Establishing mission categories and setting priorities

  • Missions: Foundation Fractures in the North American Church

    Four pressures on missions

  • Selected Missions Verses

    A dozen key foundational verses

  • Shooting Sacred Cows

    Correcting three common misconceptions in missions

  • Supporting Our Own

    Is being "one of ours" the only criteria?

  • The Coming Missionary ‘Crisis’

    Where are the trends taking us?

  • The Domestication of the Great Commission

    Is "make disciples" the core?

  • The Expanding Scope of Missions

    What happens when missions includes everything?

  • The Globally Focused Church

    What would it look like?

  • The Great Distortion

    What happened to "the nations" in the Great Commission?

  • Top Missions Challenges for the Changing US Church

    Six key challenges

  • What Belongs in the Missions Budget?

  • What is Missions - And Why does it Matter?

    How scope and progress are related

  • What is a Missionary?

    Everyone who loves God or a special category of people?

  • What is the Bible All About?

    The Bible is a story with a beginning, middle and end.

  • Why Mission Organizations Should Expect to Keep Tightening Their Belts

    The increasing cost of church reduces available funds.

  • Why Strategy?

  • World Evangelism and the Purpose of the Church

    Where does it fit?

  • World Without Windows

    What is the primary emphasis of mission?

• Booklets and Books

  • Becoming A World Changing Church

    What it would look like and what it would take to organize your church around the Great Commission.

    To purchase this booklet, contact David Mays.

  • How to Operate an Effective Missions Leadership Team in Your Church

    Simple steps with worksheets to get up and running smoothly

    Purchase this booklet from the online store at www.Pioneers.org.

• Brief Items

  • Accountability Questions for Men in Ministry

    A collection of accountability questions with suggestions for their use.

  • Changing Missions Dynamics:

    How the church, people, and missions are changing

  • Church Missionary Retirement Policies:

    How churches are handling support of retired missionaries

  • Church Missions Budgets - 2009:

    How churches are responding to the economy

  • Compassion Without Strings:

    Is our heart for eternity keeping pace?

  • Critical roles of a missions pastor

  • Funding Local Ministries:

    Should it come from the missions budget?

  • How Does a Visitor Know Your Church’s Priorities?

  • How to Start a Missions Ministry:

    Beginning with "why"

  • Local Church Role in Missionary Sending

    A List of Responsibilities

  • The Minimum Factor:

    What is limiting your missions effectiveness?

  • Missions Ministry Orientation: Purpose & Task or Relationships & Compassion?

  • Missions Priorities in Contemporary Churches:

    Nine possibilities

  • Missions Questions to Ask senior Pastor Candidates

    When you want a pastor who will lead in missions

  • Reading Tips

  • Ten Main Things

    To guide your missions ministry

  • Ten Steps to an Effective Mission Trip

  • The Image and Substance of Missions: Three Critical Issues

  • Weighed in the Balance:

    A dozen priorities to balance

  • What is the Best Way to Fund Missions in Our Church?

    Options and rationale

  • What Shapes Your Missions Ministry?

    Ten possible factors

  • What’s Wrong with "Missions"?

    Does it relate to our purpose and vision?

  • Will You Support Us?

    Responding to requests outside your focus areas

• Brochures

  • Finding Your Niche in Missions

  • What is Missions and Why Does It Matter?

• Stories (to illustrate a point)

  • A Visit to the Rescue Mission

    Why do we ignore the people’s who have no spiritual food?

  • Building the Church

    How we approach building the Kingdom compared to how we build a church building?

  • Coaching

    Putting all our emphasis on trips is like coaching only sprinters.

  • Do As I Say...

    Do church people use their funds like church leaders do?

  • Farming

    Do we farm all our fields or only the one next to the house?

  • Feeding the Hungry

    How should we balance our efforts between people who have no food and those who refuse to eat?

  • Fishing

    The local lakes are all fished out, but there are plenty of fish further away.

  • Go-Karts and Power Steering

    You can go off the road on either side, neglecting people nearby or far away.

  • Measuring Results

    The track of metrics goes in a circle.

  • Missionary Vehicle

    If you could attract nationals to Jesus with a Hummer limo, would it be a good idea?

  • Priorities

    Buildings and giving

  • Selling Pepsi

    The Pepsi guy didn't build the building or organize the show, but he’s delivering Pepsi. What can the church learn from that?

  • The Dream

    Don’t give up hope. A missionary will come.

  • The Missionary Bulletin Board

  • Three Great Ideas and How They Grew

    How buildings can limit growth