Abstract
This paper made a case for the use of co-operative mission approach to plant churches. The paper was curved through observations and concerns of Independent Pentecostal Churches in Ghana of their inability to plant daughter churches due to lack of fund for mission and church planting. The paper made a proposal for the use of nnoboa mission concept. A concept developed from cooperative farming which thrives through trust, communality and reciprocity. Nnoboa in Akan communities in Ghana is similar to Ubuntu concept in Southern African communities. The paper argues that the church (body of Christ) is endowed with spiritual, physical, material and social capital that when brought together cooperatively can help Independent Pentecostal Churches to achieve their missional agenda. Even though the paper is a proposal for Independent Pentecostal Churches in Ghana, its implementation can be used by churches in other parts of the world that are struggling with funding for mission and church planting.
Highlights
The nature of the church is missional
The understanding of ‘strategic cost-effective mission’ in this article refers to how churches can use limited available resources to achieve desirable mission and church planting by employing nnoboa as a missional model for mission and church planning
This article discussed how the nnoboa concept for farming in Ghanaian communities can be used as a missional model for cost-effective mission and church planting
Summary
The nature of the church is missional. The church is to engage a world without Christ in such a way as to expand the kingdom of God by drawing people into a lifegiving and life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ (McRaney, 2003:73). According to Bosch (2011:331), most mission societies understood mission predominantly as conversio gentilium—a conversion of individual persons. These societies had been preaching a gospel without a church. ‘Nnoboa’ mission concept229 process of beginning and growing new local churches, based on Jesus’ promise and in obedience to his Great Commission (Malphurs, 2004:19). It is the creating of new communities of faith as part of the mission of God to express his kingdom in every geographic and cultural context (Hopkins & White, 1995:3). The understanding of ‘strategic cost-effective mission’ in this article refers to how churches can use limited available resources to achieve desirable mission and church planting by employing nnoboa as a missional model for mission and church planning
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