One of the topics that I’m most passionate about is empowering women towards leadership in missions. Half of the people among the unreached are women, and in many contexts, women are both the early adopters of the gospel and the ones who pass faith and discipleship onto their families. Currently, women make up ⅔ of […]
Category: Church Planting Movements
A Church Planting Movement is a rapid and multiplicative increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group or population segment.
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Be Barnabas – Life Together
————- The last few posts have been more instructive about the process of what to do to begin partnering with a National Apostolic Visionary to pursue movements. We wanted to focus on the first few practical steps in partnering with NAVs, as we feel there is a lack of training around how to start. However, […]
I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas?III: Who was Barnabas from the Bible?IV: Be Barnabas – What is a NAV? V: Be Barnabas – How to Find a NAV? ————- In our previous post, we introduced how a goer might start the process of networking and finding potential NAVs to partner with. Many times, goers […]
I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas?III: Who was Barnabas from the Bible?IV: Be Barnabas – What is a NAV? ————- Now that we have learned some principles from Barnabas and know what we’re looking for in a National Apostolic Visionary (NAV), how do we find one? From here, we’ll start to get into […]
I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas?III: Who was Barnabas from the Bible? _______ In the last couple of posts, we’ve heard from some guest contributors about who Barnabas was from the Bible and what he did to find and partner with Paul to catalyze multiplication in the 1st Century. This gives us […]
I: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s StoryII: Why Be Barnabas? _______ In our last post, we learned from John C. about what Barnabas did in order to help us understand why it’s strategic and critically important to play a Barnabas role in the Great Commission today. For this post, we have another guest writer! […]
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Why Be Barnabas?
Be Barnabas Series1: Be Barnabas – Intro + Mint’s Story_______ In this post, one of our friends and co-workers will answer the question – ‘Why Be Barnabas?’ through Barnabas’ example in Scripture and his personal experience. Again, we are defining ‘Be Barnabas’ as the role of the outsider in finding, equipping, and empowering a national […]
Up to this point, this blog has largely covered some tools and paradigms around team leadership on the field. Our next series of posts will switch gears a bit to focus more on a strategic component of pursuing movements that we think is critically important. We’re excited to start the ‘Be Barnabas’ series. Along with […]
From time to time, we’ll update some about our personal lives and ministry here in Thailand. This past weekend, we had the opportunity to travel through the mountains to meet up with one of our closest Thai partners, Talia (name changed for security purposes). We’re planning to post about our past season of cancer treatment, […]
In Part 1, we discussed what strategy is and is not, and some areas for learning before trying to establish a strategy plan. This post is a step-by-step guide for how to write a strategy plan for your ministry. Creating the strategy plan assumes you have received from God the end vision he has given […]