We want to become a community that:
Vision
- welcoming all who gather, analyze, transform and/or publish mission information
- helping each other and being helped with the information tasks we are currently doing
- encouraging workers who are often isolated in their tasks
- indicating where to find information and how to manage it
- connecting information people with each other
- identifying and sharing good practices
- including those who cannot travel
- reducing travel for those who can
- supporting some face-to-face meetings
- enabling electronic communication through newsletters, virtual meetings, discussion groups, etc.
- an ever-changing community as people move into and out of roles, organizations and even mission information work itself
- distinct from, yet integrated with other mission workers
- its members having different specializations
- encouraging the godly use of information – with integrity
- prioritizing prayer - praying ourselves and facilitating prayer through our information
- developing a clear view of what we do with information – how does God see it?
- understanding why information is important – what are its limitations?
- equipping all who are called into information work, not just relying on a few
- facilitating strategic use of information
- learning from leaders what they want from information workers
- informing leaders how to use information and lead information workers
- serving the local and emerging as well as the centralized and well-resourced
- moving responsibility for information closer to its source
- seeking to enhance both local control and appropriate global availability
- meeting the challenge to model the new community out of every nation
- celebrating women and men equally participating
- working to include speakers of different languages in the community
- recognizing that the very existence of our community is a threat to security
- promoting appropriate information security measures
- preparing for spiritual counterattacks
- facilitating “all of the above”
- developing better understanding to improve our task in the future
- reproducing and multiplying itself in the younger generations to ensure continuity.