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
The 80/20 Mission Principle: Constantly Speak of the Kingdom of God
“As before, [Jesus] spoke constantly of the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3, The Voice). Jesus could have done so many things during His 40 days while risen from the grave, but once again He constantly spoke of the kingdom of God: As before, he spoke constantly of the kingdom of God. Speaking about the kingdom […]
The 80/20 Mission Principle: Introduction
Imagine this . . . You go to a global mission training hoping to learn all you can and the trainer hands you the Book of Acts and then dismisses you, saying, “Here is your manual. Read it. Pray it. Follow it.” What would our mission strategies consist of if we allowed the Book of […]
Still Taking Initiative Where We Are
Five Stones Global, Jean Johnson Since our last blog and conversation, have you been declaring this prayer “God, may your Kingdom come to my neighborhood and may I play an integral part in it’s coming”? Anything happening? We received some insightful comments from those who read our first blog, Taking Initiative Where We Are. I […]
Taking Initiative Where We Are
Would you join us in stepping outside your door each morning while declaring this prayer: “God, may your Kingdom come to my neighborhood and may I play an integral part in it’s coming?” In Acts 1:8, Luke writes: You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. And you will be My witnesses, […]
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 […]