Vision

We want to become a community that:

  • 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.