What Guides Us?
Every collaboration needs some direction, some reason for it’s being, something to hold it together.
The Destination World initiative is the physical manifestation of a philosophical/theological commitment all sponsoring organisations subscribe to. We call it the Koroutahi Manifesto.
Koroutahi is a hybrid Maori word that means one purpose or single desire (tahi = one, korou = purpose or desire, a bit of an obscure word in Maori).
Essentially, organisations sponsoring Destination World activities agree to work together for one reason – the advancement of cross-cultural ministry (i.e. mission) from, in and to New Zealand.
In order to realise our aim to see 3000 Kiwis engaged in longer term cross-cultural ministry by 2020, we need to raise the awareness of mission throughout the church in New Zealand. A best guestimate in 2010 puts the number at 1200+/- Kiwis engaged in longer term cross-cultural ministry.
The Koroutahi Manifesto explains how we hope to approach that aim of 3000 (which is more or less 1% of the church-going population in NZ).
For more information, here’s the Koroutahi Manifesto in PDF format…
If your organisation or church would like to be added to the list of Koroutahi Manifesto signatories feel free to contact us and let us know:info@destinationworld.net
