…every time there has been a spiritual awakening, women are often called up into ministry and spiritual leadership. It’s one of the signs of a revival that isn’t talked about very often. Dr. Jo Anne Lyon, 181 In Developing Female Leaders, church consultant Kadi Cole addresses how churches and leaders can better develop, empower, and […]
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Posts that highlight various tools and resources helpful for missions leaders.
We’re excited to share that Jenn has taken on a new role as a co-host on the Dare to Multiply Podcast, where we interview movement practitioners and scholars on all topics relating to the multiplication of disciples. On top of our regular blog posts, we will post each episode that Jenn hosts when they are […]
“Effective leaders increasingly perceive their ministries in terms of a lifetime perspective.“ The Making of a Leader by J. Robert Clinton helps spiritual leaders understand God’s process of developing them over a course of a lifetime. Clinton draws principles from the lives of Biblical and ministry leaders in history, breaking each leaders’ journey into 5 […]
Before we launched, Jenn and I were in pre-engagement counseling and we took a stress test as a way to gauge different stressors and how we responded to them. Our counselor came back and said, “Steven, you scored the lowest stress we’ve ever seen on this test. You have like no stress at all.” I […]
In our experience as team leaders, the number one characteristic that we look for in goers and missions leaders is humility. Without humility towards God and towards fellow workers and national partners, we will never be able to persevere, succeed, or to find joy in our calling as team leaders. Main Resource: Humility: The Journey […]
One of the prevailing messages many of us are taught growing up is that emotions are a bad thing. For those of us who grew up in the West, emotions are often seen as illogical or considered a weakness. However, the Bible is filled with emotional language because God himself feels emotions! He can be […]
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Cancer, more than anything, transformed our lives into “before” and “after.” At the end of 2021, while going through cancer treatment, I stumbled across this poem by Lucille Clifton. Its message reflected the bittersweet experiences Steven and I were facing as God used suffering to refine and transform us into who He wanted us to […]
Hello from Amazing Thailand! After 1.5 years in the States for Jenn’s medical treatment, we’ve finally been able to return to the country and people that we love. There’s been many lessons learned from God through costly and painful experiences in the last season that we hope to write about soon. For now, we’ll try […]
We started this blog to provide tools, insights, and resources for leaders in the missions world. And there are so many great resources that we have learned from that we want to point you towards! We’ll regularly have these “Quick Reads” posts to provide some of the best articles, books, quotes, videos, and miscellaneous things […]
In Part 1, we addressed some of the realities of spiritual warfare. In this post, we’ll get more practical – how do you prepare for spiritual warfare? What are the indicators that you’re encountering spiritual warfare? And what are some best practices and responses for those situations? How to Prepare When we first started learning […]