What is a Short-Term Mission MOBILIZER?

What is a Short-Term Mission MOBILIZER? 

What does Carol Letkeman DO? 

In short, a mobilizer is a pathways coach. Let me try to explain. Imagine you’ve been inspired to walk the West Coast Trail, but you have never walked more than maybe 5km at one time, let alone hiked mountains for 7 days straight. Where do you begin? After a few days of YouTube tutorials, maybe a trip to MEC and the local library, you know you need a real & living friend to help you. You need someone to encourage you, help you prepare physically, emotionally, spiritually and technically.  That’s where a mobilizer is your best friend.

Over a cup of coffee, you learn that Carol is an experienced hiking guide with a team of Sherpas & fitness trainers who desire to help you prepare for hiking but also help you discern which pathways are best to test your skills and fitness levels without breaking your soul.

Moving from analogy to reality, what is a short-term mission mobilizer in practical terms? What does Carol do? Carol is a life coach, career counselor, networker, prayer-counselor, team-builder, and assignment coordinator. She helps ‘mobilize’ people toward a mission pathway that makes sense for them and their church. There are many pathways to join God on a mission.  In the background, Carol is meeting with university and college faculty and administration to secure academic credit for particular pathways. She is working with local, provincial and national church leadership to foster partnership and collaboration for each individual, family or church team on a mission. Carol and her team design training camps and debrief retreats with a robust curriculum that focus on attentiveness to God, scripture, community (team-dynamics) and cross-cultural adaptation. In addition, this team becomes part of a discernment process for future assignments and vocational ministry opportunities. In any given year, Carol and her team are in disciple-making mentorship roles with 50-100 individuals whether first time participants or burgeoning church planters! A mobilizer's work is life-on-life discipleship.

For more information about mission pathways, please contact your local trail-guide.

Hiking Trails (Mission Opportunities)

Trail Guide (contact Carol)

What is "Relational Funding"???

Lloyd & Carol Letkeman & Jaymie Anderton embracing a season of relational funding! 

Relational Funding? 

Carol’s salary and ministry expenses must all be raised through “Relational Funding”. What is that you ask? All funding is directly connected to significant relationships.  Our ministry is dependent upon donations to Multiply with a memo “Carol Letkeman” or “C0279” budget code. Why only Carol raising funds this way? Shouldn't we be saying Carol & Lloyd? Though we work and function as a team, our role designation with Multiply (formerly MB Mission) puts us into different funding models.  

This is a new reality for us. Our salaries and ministry expenses for the last 15 years were being drawn from the 15% essential services deduction from donations to Multiply. Now, only Lloyd's salary and ministry expenses are provided through essential services. 

We ask you to consider partnering with us in ministry by becoming a monthly donor. Our prayer is for 100 partners giving $100/month. Any partnership amount is valued! Even $10/month will be an investment in disciple-making on mission.  As of today, we have 25% of the goal raised in monthly commitments! We have until March to raise the next 75%.

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Financial Information

Carol’s salary is $55K

STM Central Canada ministry expenses fluctuate between $45-55K with much of it being expensed to various travel lines.

Ministry expenses =

·      national travel (AB, SK, MB trips for mobilization & conventions)

·      international travel (1-2 Vision/Intercession trips)

·      STM specific media (photography & videography consults)

·      Special projects such as fundraisers

·      office & overhead (professional development, supplies, mobile phone, etc)

·      mobilization expenses (hospitality, coffee conversations, mileage etc.)

August 2019: Kayak, Dinghy, Bike & Runners

Refreshed, Renewed, Rested

Carol and I enjoyed a three-week extended stay-cation to celebrate our 28^th anniversary and to explore Winnipeg via bike-paths and rivers; kayaking, running, walking and a dinghy ride on the Red River.  We enjoyed summer-time leisurely visits with family and friends. We are back to work and want to catch you up on some changes, some no-changes, and recent ministry activity.

Recent changes

Multiply (formerly MB Mission) has undergone a few changes. A significant change is that Carol’s salary and ministry budget needs to be fully fundraised. All Multiply short-term mission (STM) staff are transitioning to a 'relational support' model of funding. We ask that you prayerfully consider joining our financial support team.

Recent no-changes

Carol continues to lead a dynamic team together in partnership with our Provincial MB leaders that provide experiential disciple-making opportunities such as SOAR, ACTION, and TREK.

Lloyd continues to consult and serve the Central Canada MB churches and affiliate partners as Mission Mobilizer.

Recent ministry activity

TREK Central Canada training came to an end in June as the participants’ internships began in Thailand, Japan, Winnipeg, and Central Asia. TREK is all about discerning calling and ministry vocation. Many of the modules of TREK training are available for audit. This year we had several pastors and lay-leaders join TREK CC for the preaching and evangelism modules. Consider joining us May-June 2020 for a module or two.

July – Aug: ACTION training has become a global mission family-camp, and we love it! This summer we had 50 people including 14 children 11 years and under! Families have attended ACTION to be renewed in their walk with Jesus and be resourced in reaching their communities. A team of young adults served in Brazil, while a team from Lithuania served in the North End of Winnipeg!

July in Japan: A Swift Current youth group partnered with the Japanese MB conference in Osaka Japan to host an English Bible Camp. Pastor Darren Kennedy and his team from Bridgeway Community Church joined Nakajima Sensei’s church and family, Cory & Masami Giesbrecht’s family and three Japanese churches in a rich faith exchange. Consider mobilizing a church team to help an international church with their summer programming or the Olympics in Japan 2020!

There are always more stories to share of Jesus transforming lives and communities through living life on mission together. We would love to share a coffee or meal with you and hear your recent journey of faith and share ours with you.

Drop us a text or email:

Lloyd’s mobile (204) 688-4423, lloydl@multiply.net

Carol’s mobile (204) 324-4423, caroll@multiply.net

Join our team of monthly supporters in one of four ways:

1.     https://multiply.net/global-search?q=carol+letkeman

2.     Call our office (204) 669-6575, toll free 1-888-866-6267

3.     By Mail. Multiply, 1310 Taylor Ave. Winnipeg, MB, R3M3Z6

4.     By email. Contact Winnipeg@multiply.net

--> Thank you for your on-going curiousity, support, prayers and encouragement as we disciple disciple-makers and serve our partner churches in the work of reconciliation and transforming communities in the name of Jesus.