Our Strategy
Our strategic framework triangulates three “edges” in order to encourage a culture of local sustainability and spontaneous multiplication: (1) prophetic, (2) coaching-training, and (3) community.
Prophetic Edge
The prophetic edge invites people to sense the need and see the urgency to create a global mission context of sustainability, dignity, and possibility.
Coaching-Training Edge
The coaching-training edge is designed to inherently build people’s vision, critical thinking skills, and capacity to imagine new possibilities and apply new strategies that produce a culture of local sustainability and spontaneous multiplication.
Community Edge
The community edge mobilizes those who are building a culture of local sustainability and spontaneous multiplication to pray, meet, support, encourage, and teach one another for the maximum impact—ultimately, to create a movement.
Three-Fold Edge Phases
Through the combination of the Three-Fold Edge, Five Stones Global moves practitioners, mobilizers, senders, and support people through these four phases of transformation:
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Blog Posts
Let Jesus Be Himself
We all hear or use phrases like these: Just be yourself. Embrace who you are. Own your story. Let me be me. I am free to be me. This way of thinking is popular in American culture today. We allow great latitude for ourselves to be at home in our own skins and others to […]
Social Justice 4: Micro-Compassion as a Lifestyle
By Jean Johnson Macro-compassion projects from the West tend to swallow up micro-compassion lifestyles for the Rest. Compassion in the hands of the few on behalf of the many is extremely limiting. How can we help to reverse this syndrome and make compassion every Christ follower’s natural rhythm of life in their micro-spaces, thus becoming a […]
Missionary, Save Thyself!
Guest Blog by Ryan Kuja Excerpt from Ryan’s book: From Inside Out: Reimagining Mission, Recreating the World While serving with a Christian humanitarian organization in South Sudan, I worked with a Dinka man named Abijek who lived in a nearby village. He was employed by the organization to keep an eye on the goings-on in and […]
Social Justice 3 – Is Integral Mission as Integral as We Want? Is Social Justice as Just as We Think?
By Jean Johnson, Director of Five Stones Global The Lausanne Movement describes integral mission as a style of mission that recognizes “no biblical dichotomy between evangelistic and social responsibility.” Putting this concept into the form of an action statement, we might say that integral mission is “integrating the proclamation of the gospel and social action.” […]
Social Justice 2 – How Does Spiritual Justice Play Out?
By Jean Johnson In my last post, we visited God’s heart for social justice by listening in on a conversation between a child and a parent. Additionally, we visited Isaiah 1:17, which is a clear invitation to correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless, and plead the cause of widows. In certain periods of the […]
Social Justice 1: God Designed Social Justice – Don’t You Dare Hit Her!
By Jean Johnson I was driving down a popular boulevard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In a grassy area along the boulevard, I saw a man lift up his iron rod that served as a cane to strike a woman over her head. Without thinking, I slammed on my brakes, jumped out of my vehicle, and […]