Our vision
Based on the scene in Rev: 7:9-10 of people of every nation, tribe, people and language gathered around the throne worshipping God and the prayer of Jesus in John 17, we seek to connect God’s people for God’s vision.
Our values
Prayer is the primary fuel. We are God-driven. Relationships are the commodity of our network. Collaboration is the fruit of networks and relationships. Churches on mission are primary. Strategic in intent, we are proactive and accountable.
What we do
WorldconneX works in the missions context created by God for the 21st century (new realities) to Activate Churches and provide Front Line Services so they can deploy missions personnel long-term while providing International Connections for strategic impact.
What does this mean?
CHURCH ACTIVATION WorldconneX helps congregations by first having them look inside at the people and the resources, gifts, skills and passions that God has placed within the church and its community. Every church is different. Each congregation has a unique DNA that can be used to impact the world for Christ. That’s what WorldconneX calls “turning the world upside down by doing missions from the inside out.”
WorldconneX provides four tools to help churches:
- Inside Out Weekend This event starting on Friday evening and concluding Sunday afternoon will help jump-start a congregation’s journey toward a strategic missional future. The timeframe can be customized to fit any congregation’s need. The purpose is to inspire and enlarge the congregation’s vision, equip the leadership, and identify next steps.
- Missions Coaching WorldconneX connects churches with a certified coach who can customize a consulting process to help a congregation become more strategic. The church will contract to work with the coach over a specified time period ranging from a few months to a year.
- Affinity Networks WorldconneX provides connections for churches, individuals, and ministries to come together around common interests such as people groups, nations or regions of the world. These networks create: (a) mutual learning; (b) sharing of information, resources and vision; (c) encouragement; and (d) experience of community.
- Pastor Plus Trips WorldconneX creates opportunities for pastors and key lay leaders to explore what God is doing in some of the most unreached places on earth and discover the possibilities for church connections. Most trips last 10-12 days, including one Sunday. The trips are led by leading mission practitioners.
FRONT LINE SERVICES: WorldconneX helps churches send their own people for long-term overseas ministry. Front Line Services connects churches with the best resources to prepare and send them—resources like (1) insurance solutions, (2) answers to tax questions, (3) retirement account possibilities, (4) travel documentation and health information, (5) training for overseas living and ministry, (6) options for financial support / support raising, and others. We also connect churches with other churches and individuals to help them send their own missionaries.
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS: WorldconneX is focused on global Body of Christ cooperation for the sake of the Great Commission. We are involved in several key initiatives on the cutting edge of God’s work in the world. We would love to connect you into these efforts and help broaden your strategic connections in the following ways:
- Global Connectors: We can connect you with a global network of connectors who can help you and your church connect with strategic and effective work anywhere in the world. Many of these are key national and international leaders from these various countries and regions.
- Ethnê: We are serving as a part of Ethnê, a new global missions network focused on the Unreached people without access to the Gospel. Ethnê is truly global, with ¾’s of the leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
- Crisis Response: We are serving as a part of Frontier Crisis Response Network that is focused on global Body of Christ networking to responds to disasters, wars and other crises in areas where the church is not well represented.
- Networks: To increase your effectiveness, we can connect you with key initiatives and networks such as: Comibam (Mission Network of Latin America and Spain and Portugal), several Business As Mission efforts and networks, the World Christian Database, Church Planting Movements and Trainers, International Prayer Networks, and various field networks in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America.
Our History
WorldconneX is a missions network that is an affiliate of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. A 2000 - 2002 study of current mission realities lead to the official organization of WorldconneX in 2003.
Our Staff
Bill: WorldconneX Leader
Bill Tinsley has a real passion for taking what never changes–God’s vision for his world–and connecting it to circumstances that are always changing. He was BGCT associate executive director from 2001-2003 after serving as executive director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention from 1993 to 2001. Before that he was a church planter as well as helping others plant churches in his roles as Denton Director of Missions and BGCT consultant. For books by Bill Tinsley, go to http://www.veritaspublish.com
Rhonda: Administrative Manager
Rhonda Walden has been involved in missions through the local church and on the associational level. She has been a s in Action leader and director for over 25 years and the associational GA director for 3 years. She worked in the Missions Division of the BGCT for 11 years and then moved to the Financial office for 6 years. She felt God calling her to a new mission endeavor and joined the WorldconneX team in January, 2005. She enjoys her personal involvement with the homeless ministry of Cornerstone Baptist Church in South Dallas.
Frank: Activating Asian Churches
Phuc Dang (also known as Frank) grew up in Vietnam and came to the United States at age 18 where he heard the name of Jesus for the first time. After learning English and graduating summa cum laude in mathematics from Tulane, he was so overwhelmed with a burden to reach his people for Christ that he abandoned his PhD studies and enrolled in seminary. He now pastors of a Vietnamese Baptist Church in Haltom City and joined the WorldconneX team part time.
Karen: Activation Coordinator
Karen Hatley and her husband Warren have served overseas, including Great Britain and the UAE. They served as strategy coordinators and helped mobilize and focus attention on unreached people groups. Karen continued her missions experience through studies at Truett Seminary, and Warren returned to practicing medicine. Karen served on the founding board of WorldconneX and recently joined the staff at WorldconneX fulltime. Warren practices medicine in the DFW metroplex where they now make their home.
Walter: Front Line Leader
Walter Justl has served in overseas missions in South America for 25 years in a variety of capacities including church planting, theological education, mission administration, and field strategy development and supervision. He has spent most of that time in Brazil developing and implementing field support systems for cross-cultural missionaries.
Rachel: Church Activation Assistant
Rachel Carpenter graduated from Baylor University with a degree focused in History, Geography, and Music. She has taught World Geography and U.S. History for 3 years as well as trained and worked in the travel industry. Rachel has volunteered and served overseas; she has a real heart and concern for the people of Mongolia after working with missionaries there in September of 2002. Rachel joined the WorldconneX team in October of 2006.