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 Pray, Part 2
So nobody took me up on my challenge. 😉 I get it; who wants to write one more thing online. Here was the challenge: Without looking through the book of Acts, try to call up as many examples of prayer as possible. Share those examples with our readers without commentary. Then take mental notes of […]
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 […]