It's so easy.... What you do is plant a church with a few "experienced" leaders (probably 22-27 years old) that have done this at a very unreached Baylor University campus. (The only more unreached campus might be Liberty or Oral Roberts.) They have multiplied a lifegroup, raised up interns, and done an intensive year of biblical study at Elevate and 24:14 (formerly Master's Commission and Antioch Training School) and Staff Values Training. The curriculum is mainly inspirational teaching that if you pray, fast, and believe hard enough you will be the channel that the Holy Spirit uses to bring about the long-awaited revival for some forgotten war-torn country in the 10/40 window. You learn about the country by reading wikipedia, a few guidebooks, and the Operation World prayer guide. Since you know more about the country than the average ignorant-on-world-affairs American you must be ready to go!
The plan is to go hangout in the country and learn the language. You don't want to get a job in the country because that takes too much time away from planting churches. You don't want to learn the language before you go, because that will delay the urgent revival that is going to happen there. You spend a year "working" in the U.S. by support raising. You've been told that you are sacrificing the best years of your life to spread the gospel so you think you need a salary that is at least as good as people serving themselves by working 8-5 in the U.S. You have to include airfare to all the retreats, conferences, and furloughs. You also need money for trips out of the country every six months to renew your visa because you aren't in the country as missionaries or employees (you didn't take time to prepare for something like that). You are in the country technically as tourists.
You take your training guide from AMI and expect to spend the first year learning the language and hanging out with people; your second year building a core church; your third year continuing to build your church and establishing a training school, your fourth year raising up new leaders and by year five you are outta there! Now you are off you your next country to establish a world-wide movement of revival. You don't get bogged down by things that affect other missions organizations like relief work. You stay focused - purposeful.
I don't know where the timelines and missions philosophy came from, but I know that these goals - touted as the way that God works - often fail miserably. The number of churches that Antioch has planted is always used as proof that they are abiding in Jesus and that their process is better than all others.
What is never discussed is failure.
Numerous mission teams have fallen apart. They go live the life as expats in a foreign land, but unlike other normal people, they don't have jobs. They might live a life of wealth that many in that land could never hope to attain. They hang out at shops or the tennis club (seriously) and find ways to strike up conversations with people about Jesus. Well, they don't speak the language for a long time, so the first and often only people that they befriend are those that already speak English. Someone in Uzbekistan, Russia, Lebanon or Turkey who already speaks English and sees wealthy Americans who don't have jobs must be pretty interested. "Please tell me about this Jesus." He must be the secret to their success.
Many teams don't ever stay long enough to really learn the language. They are not committed for the long term because the AMI training guide told them that they should be sailing along after a few years. When this doesn't happen, they question themselves, they question God, and they quickly have a revelation that God is pointing them in a new direction! Home.
These decisions are never discussed from the front of the church at ACC on Sunday morning let alone analyzed to learn from failure. The missionaries might come back to AMI for a few months and find a new job supporting the troops in the field or they might silently shrink away. The processes don't change. The machine keeps rolling on.
There are 200 freshmen Baylor students at World Mandate who have yet to experience the real world. They are filled with dreams and ready to take the lead....