The Your Journey to the Nations course is designed to help you discover your path to the nations. During the course you will navigate through practical steps that will help you make informed decisions about your next steps. It will address topics such as:

• How your gifts and passions could be used to make an impact among the nations.
• The joy of building a personal support team for prayer and finances.
• Communicating your desire to be a missionary with your church and your family.
• How can I discern God’s will to become a missionary?
• What can I do now that will help me become a better missionary later?

During this event each person will receive a personal Roadmap detailing how to get from here to there with a focus on discussion, prayer, Q&A sessions, and personal reflection time. The course is perfect for anyone interested in becoming a missionary or exploring a greater role in the Great Commission. Contact Mark Szymanski for more information.

Is your organization involved in cross-cultural work? Have you wondered whether your people are adequately prepared for the rigors of working in different cultural contexts? If this describes you, United World Mission can help. We will send experienced cross-cultural trainers to your site to train groups of 10 – 1,000. The training is interactive, engaging, and will demonstrate tremendous value to your people. The standard training package consists of a one day (6 hour) session, with individual consultation and counseling available before and after the group session. All training materials are included. This training is well suited for short term mission teams, mission boards, and other constituent groups interested in becoming excellent at cross cultural work. Contact Mark Szymanski to schedule training.

You want to make a difference in the world, but with so many options available to you maybe you are not sure how to maximize your investment. You have something unique to contribute and you want to find the best fit. United World Mission can help. We have been in the business of helping churches determine global strategies for over 50 years. We have a vast global network of church and para-church partners committed to growing the church in over 30 nations.

You can start by contacting our Director of Partnerships, Mark Szymanski. Mark will assess your needs and then design a customized plan to help you determine your goals, connect with a global partner where your organization’s resources will make an impact, and develop a training plan to help you organize your team.

Mark has been actively involved in various aspects of ministry since 1974. Throughout the years he has assisted churches, para-church ministries and businesses in developing their staff and volunteers in strategic outreach and kingdom involvement leading to transformational impact and churches planted. He served as a Mission/Administrative Pastor, owned businesses, and held executive positions in ministry.

Mark has developed and guided cross-cultural church planting and other ministry in several countries while traveling in more than 75 countries and leading more than 50 short-term trips. In 1998 he joined United World Mission as Assistant to the President where he was excited to become involved in a movement, which was planting churches across the world. Today Mark's role at United World Mission has expanded to include personal coaching, mobilization, field development, international partnerships, church consultation and leadership development.

He is a regular lecturer in the course “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” and meets with church leadership teams on a regular basis discussing integration of new concepts, development of shared resources, foci, and transitional processes and setting up global partnerships and church based teams. In addition Mark has coach and guided more than a thousand people considering cross-cultural involvement and career change.

Mark and his wife, Cathy, have been married for 33 years. They have three adult children, five grandchildren, and reside in Matthews NC.

Mark Szymanski
Director for Expansion
Career Coach
www.mszymanski.com
Email: mski1957@gmail.com
C: 704.517.0255
O: 800.825.5896


Tom was born and raised in the family of a pastor and well-known evangelist. Becoming a Christian later in life, Tom was constrained by the biblical mandate to take the Gospel to the whole world. Tom is self-educated in missions and has invested his adult life in helping churches maximize their potential for world evangelization. Tom was missions chairman for 10 years at Berachah Church in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, and missions director for five more years at Chelten Baptist Church in Dresher, Pennsylvania. Tom is currently the Director for Missional Consultations for United World Mission. Prior to that he served 15 years with ACMC (Advancing Churches in Missions Commitment) as Northeast Regional Director and Supervisor of Regional Ministries. With ACMC Tom inspired, challenged and trained hundreds of churches in strengthening their commitment and approach to missions. And essentially, that is what he continues to do through United World Mission. Tom is a sought after missions speaker and consultant for churches throughout the eastern United States. He has lectured on world missions and the local church at Seminary of the East, Philadelphia College of the Bible, Westminster Seminary and Columbia International University. He is a regular lecturer in the course “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement”. Tom has co-authored a book with Lois Shaw entitled “Missions in the 21st Century”. Shaw publishing company in Wheaton, IL publishes it. His second book “Today’s All-Star Missions Churches" is published by Baker Book House in Grand Rapids, MI. Tom is married to Nancy and they have two grown children and five grandchildren. Tom & Nancy now live in Lancaster, PA.

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