A Missional Church Reaches to the World

My church's goal of mission is represented by the old model of building a larger church by getting more and more members and expanding the building rather than expanding the missio dei, and the Church members are seen only as Church people rather than Kingdom people. My church sends money to help missionaries and a church in the Philippines, but there is no drive and no desire or passion to live missionally outside the church itself. There are minor events that try to reach the community, but it is predominately concerned with inviting people in rather than going out to the community and much less the world. The members of my church have not been taught or trained to be evangelical witnesses, and have no training in missions. They think missions is for a few while sitting in their pews believing that they are a church that is impacting the world. When I interned with the youth at my church I started with an emphasis on reaching the community and took any amount of youth that wanted to go out each Thursday afternoon during the summer to evangelize to the community, which is something the youth had never really experienced before unless they were on a mission trip. This is small but it is still a start in the right direction.