Our official title = Missionary Pastor.
What is that?
What does that mean?
What will our ministry look like in Hawaii?
Well…..
Missionaries are those called to vocationally respond to the Great Commission, making the Gospel contextually relevant and meaningful. Pastors are called to shepherd believers, share life in fellowship with a flock and guide them through growth in the Spirit. A Missionary-Pastor (MP), then, specializes in translating the Good News into unique contexts and developing relationships-of-discipleship in the process.
We will focus our time on three primary tasks within our Mission Zone: witnessing to the lost, discipling the found, and modeling the kingdom.
Witnessing: We will be engaging in relational-evangelism—using relationships as a vehicle to offer the Good News.
Discipling: We will be shepherding believers to be kingdom-focused disciples.
Kingdom: Our life and ministry will be a holistic representation of the kingdom of God, which will serve as a model of faithfulness for our community-of-influence.
Put in more “pracitcal terms” –
We will be sensitive to the cultural milieu of Hawaii, assimilate into the local context of ministry, and begin to build relational bridges with local residents.
We will observe and invest in the unique community development needs in our Mission Zone.
And we will  witness to the Good News through responding to and offering solutions for acute social problems.
We will establish and work towards bible study, prayer gatherings, discipleship clutches, missional communities, compassion projects, etc.
So that is a little glimpse of how our life as missionaries on the big Island of Hawaii will be lived.