An effective mobilizer is a veritable database of wisdom and resources. Some key important areas of competency would include :
- Missions issues and trends
- World religions and the key challenges they present to world missions
- Major current world events and how they effect missions
- Potential mission agencies with which people can serve; key differences between them (type of ministry, theological stance, locations they work) and what types of missionaries best fit in those agencies.
- Current issues and trends in the American Church, particularly pertaining to evangelism and missions
Some key books, periodicals and guides to read (regularly) would include :
- Operation World
- Christianity Today
- Evangelical Missions Quarterly
- Leadership
- Brigada weekly email
- Missions Catalyst (Marti Wade)
- Missions Catalyst (Ellen Livingood)
- Radical
- Radical Together
- The Church is Bigger Than You Think
