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Missions Personal Thailand

Reflections from 10 Years on the Field (Part 1)

Jenn and I launched to Thailand on this day 10 years ago: November 4, 2014. 10 years on the field – in ministry leadership and through a pandemic, cancer, and role transitions – has felt like the equivalent of 20 years in comparison to what life was like back in the States before we launched. […]

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Missions Team Development Team Leader Toolbox

How To Recruit Teammates (Part 2)

In How To Recruit Teammates (Part 1), we talked about how to cast vision broadly to networks of goers, with a particular eye out for leaders. In Part 2, we’ll describe more of the process of filtering and discerning a potential recruit’s fit on your team, and how to invite them to your team. Filter […]

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Missions Team Development Team Leader Toolbox

How to Recruit Teammates (Part 1)

One of the responsibilities of a Team Leader is to recruit the right teammates onto your team. We’re often asked many questions around the area of recruiting, including: “How do I know if someone’s right for my team?”“How do I cast compelling vision for someone to join?”“Should I prioritize role fit, gifting, or character?” We […]

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Be Barnabas CPM Personal Suffering

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, […]

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Be Barnabas Church Planting Movements CPM Personal Thailand

Be Barnabas – Intro and Mint’s Story

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 […]

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CPM Personal Thailand

625 Days & Talia’s Story

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, […]

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Quick Reads #2 – GoerFI

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 […]

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Missions Personal

Who We Are & Why We Started This Blog

Hi, we are Steven and Jenn Chang. Welcome! The Missions Leaders blog exists to provide tools, insights, and resources for leaders in the missions world. Who We Are and Our Story We have been team leaders among the unreached for the past 8 years, and we want to pass on the lessons we’ve learned in […]