In our last two posts, we’ve defined what the “apostolic” is, and 5 essential elements of an apostolic leader. An apostolic leader needs to have all 5 elements of big vision, risking faith, foundation setting, leader developer, and surrender to God. If you can find a clearly apostolically gifted, mature, national believer to partner with, […]
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.
In this series, we’ve explored spiritual gifts and their importance in missions, in the field context, and on missions teams. In the preceding post, we dove into the word ‘apostolic,’ what it means, and why it’s important for movements. In this post we will get more practical with the 5 essential elements of an apostolic […]
In the last few posts, we’ve given a broad overview on why spiritual gifts are important for the mission field and how they can apply to the field context and on missions teams. In this post, we’ll try to address the term ‘apostolic’ and the critical role this concept plays in catalyzing movements among the […]
Our first year on the field we established a rhythm of monthly team fellowships. At these fellowship times that Steven and I led, we ate together, worshipped together, and did a quick Bible study. Usually people stuck around afterwards to play board games. Seems simple enough, right? Except that everybody had a problem with team […]
In our previous post, we covered a simple definition of spiritual gifts and some key points about gifts. In this post, we’ll explore why using spiritual gifts is critical on the missions field. As we’ve mentioned in our spiritual warfare posts, our encounters with spiritual warfare during our first short-term trip to Thailand opened our […]
We were recently invited to Cynthia Anderson’s Dare to Multiply Podcast to share about a few different topics that we are passionate about and have shared on this blog, including building and multiplying a movement team, finding national partners, and abiding in Christ. You can listen to it below!
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 […]
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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 […]