Understanding the Refugee Crisis within the larger migration trends. Then learning how to engage with people on the issue and design local research solutions to explore the diaspora in your own community.

1. Beyond the Tents
Understanding
Engaging
Developing
Outreach to the
Nations Next Door

2. To see the Pope . . .
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• Moving for Opportunity - Migrants
• Moving because of Violence - Refugees
• Urban / Rural Shift

3. Understand the
Facts

4. Understanding the Facts
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• Moving for Opportunity - Migrants
• Moving because of Violence - Refugees
• Urban / Rural Shift

5. Most Advanced Economies
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6. More people live here . . .
Map by valeriepieris on Reddit

7. 80%
of the world’s
population shares only
5.5% of the world’s
wealth.
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They are Chasing the
Opportunity and Hope

8. US States As Rich as These
Countries . . .
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9. Coming to Study
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10. • Half of all international migrants live in 10 rich, mostly
urban countries:
– Australia
– Canada
– US
– France
– Germany
– Spain
– UK
– Russia
– Saudi Arabia
– UAE
Half of All Migrants live…

12. Where the Money Goes
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13. The Refugee Journey
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14. Why are there more
refugees?
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15. Violence
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• 1/5th of global population is impacted by some
kind of violence or insecurity. (World Bank)
• Fewer wars but more casualties
– 63 armed conflicts = 56,000 fatalities (2008)
– 42 armed conflicts = 180,000 fatalities (2015)

16. Persecution
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17. War
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18. Peace
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19. War vs Disaster
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20. A Growing Urban World
Sources: Future of the Global Church

21. Sources: Future of the Global Church

22. Sources: Future of the Global Church

23. The only city in the
developed world

24. Foreign-born in Major Cities
• Between 2000 – 2010 117 million Chinese
moved from the country to cities seeking work
Sources: World Migration Report 2015

25. 2.5
Billion people
to come into
this world in
the next
decades will
mostly come
in as urban
and low-
middle class.
Sources: Future of the Global Church
and World Migration Report 2015

26. Sources: World Migration Report 2015

27. Engaging Your
Audience

28. Who are you talking to?
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• Subject Matter Experts
• Congregants
• General Christian Public
• Non-believers

29. Your Goal
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• Where is your audience on the issue?
• What are you hoping your community will do?
• How do you plan to move them from where
they are into action?

31. Managing the Conflict
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• On this issue there will be disagreement within
your community
• In an era of social communication, you need to
decide how engaged you will be with your
audience as they process what you
communicate
• Two examples:
– Is Your Heart Ready to Help?
– Jesus was a Refugee

32. Is Your Heart Ready to Help?
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I agree with everything Jon wrote. My problem lies not with the
true refugees but those who come in under that premise but
mean us harm (example; the hundreds of pictures of refugees I
have seen that were 75% able working young men) If you want
to call that "fear" then so be it. And, in that case we should all
stop locking our doors at night. After all, your words, " Then
release the fear and grab hold of faith!"
XX, thanks for your comment. The reality is that every
time we love, we open ourselves up to be hurt. Love
requires vulnerability that can only be protected by
faith. You are right that people will take advantage of
our love and compassion . . .
Thanks for getting back. I know you speak
truth.
Constructive Dialogue

33. Is Your Heart Ready to Help?
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Let's take the women and children in but send ALL THE MEN BACK
TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS LIKE AMERICANS HAD TO!
Well, help is biblical. Turn the other face is biblical.
But letting radical muslims in our countries, watching
how they murdering enocent people, its a bit
different. Love your enemy, is true and biblical
statement, but when you see what 'thy neighborI am all for helping them get their country
back. I am not for bringing them into our
country unless they swear to our constitution.
That is biblical to how Moses ran the nation of
Israel.
Processing Solutions

34. Is Your Heart Ready to Help?
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What about the homeless and hungry we already have here in
USA.. What about all them.? No I'm not for taking in terrorist..
Yes go to them and be a missionary all the
time you want!
Defending Positions

35. Is Your Heart Ready to Help?
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A lot of good praying will do you..as these refugees either bomb
you or decapitate you...as for a blog on christianity as an answer
that won't help either...the answer is simple...an eye for an eye...
Jesus was not a refugee!!! He owns the whole world,
He spoke it into existence.
These refugees ain't Jesus and they wish to kill
you!
Defending Positions

36. Jesus was a Refugee
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Where in the Bible does His Word say that Jesus was ever a
refugee?
Dear XX, thanks for your note. We hope you get to
buy the resource and see how we go about making
that case, but the short answer is that as Joseph and
Mary were forced to flee the government of Herod
and live in Egypt for several years, the...
Sorry, no. Jesus was not a refugee.
Constructive Dialogue

37. Learning Together
for Solutions

38. The Process
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Three phases:
• Collect and synthesize community data to
promote Spirit‐led consensus and frame
engagement
• Define objectives, areas of focus and tools for
community mission teams to observe, listen and
record
• Bring insights together to discern God’s calling
toward new plans for community engagement

39. Uniqueness's
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• Spirit-led process throughout
• Integration of church people and programs and
the research approach
• Stewardship of knowledge with tangible impact

40. Arabic Speakers in Nashville

41. Hindi Speakers in Nashville

42. Chinese Speakers in Nashville

47. • Vulnerability
Composite Map
• Overlays all vulnerability
factors
• Analysis to calculate Rank
• and Vulnerability Index
• Index can be applied to
other locations
• Comparative analysis will
inform development of
vulnerability indicators for
broader application

48. Our Vision
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49. Our Mission
Our Mission:
GMI leverages research and technology to create,
cultivate, and communicate mission information leading
to insight that inspires Kingdom service.
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Information
Provision
Decision
Support
Kingdom-Centered
Outcomes-based
Evaluation
The Knowledge Stewardship Cycle

50. Tools to Help You Slice
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