Here’s a book that looks promising. From the blurb, This is the insightful story of Hindustan Bible Institute (HBI), an institution founded in Chennai, India, to teach pastors and to foster church planting, which over time had lost its vision. This fascinating story of dismantling and re-building of the HBI program to return to its [...]
Category Archives: 4. Rapid mobilization
Get the right people on board
9 October, 2006 – 9:25 AM
A great story via Tim Elmore: One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get some shelter for the night. “We’d like a room, please,” the husband [...]
13 ways to squash a leader
25 August, 2006 – 6:25 AM
Tips from Sam Metcalf to anyone out there who wants to keep a young. passionate, pioneering leader “under control”. 1. Force them to go to school 2. Give them too much money 3. Tell them all the reasons why something can’t be done. 4. Swamp them with paperwork and administration. 5. Give them people to [...]
Anyone for TEE?
22 August, 2006 – 6:44 AM
This report from Kristen Hiller via Guy Muse in Ecuador: Sunlight pours through the glass ceiling of the Fundacion Clemencia, flooding the great room where a small cluster of elderly residents clap their hands and sing: “Santo, santo, santo!” or “Holy, holy, holy!” Had Jose and Adriana Salazar not taken in these abandoned elderly in [...]
Participation pathway
2 August, 2006 – 6:29 AM
Study the AFL Participation Pathway and ask: Why can’t church be like this? Movements grow leaders. Leadership
What Des taught me
31 July, 2006 – 9:42 AM
I’m still stunned after my conversation with Des, punch-drunk by the simplicity of what he does. Why do we make it so complicated? What is wrong with doing what Jesus did? Here’s seven simple lessons Des taught me: If you’re in ministry and you’re not growing leaders, you’re not doing your job. If you grow [...]
How Des builds builders
29 July, 2006 – 3:59 AM
Following up my post on Des, here’s how he builds builders: 1. Recruit Des’s first workers came through his ministry to young men in his local church. He hung out with them. He took them away on 4 Wheel Driving trips into the bush and the desert. (The photo above is of Des—back to the [...]
Des
27 July, 2006 – 2:13 AM
Had coffee and pancakes with Des the other night. His guys built our extension. “Heard you’re building hospitals and factories these days Des. Are you getting out of building houses?” said I. “Steve, I don’t build buildings.” “Well what do you do? You’re a builder!” “I build builders.” You could have knocked me over with [...]
10 Ways to control the natives
28 June, 2006 – 10:02 AM
in-dig-e-nous: 1. Having originated in and being produced, growing or living naturally in a particular region or environment. 2. Innate, inborn. Syn. Native. Growing indigenous leaders is every true missionary’s greatest challenge. Keith Bateman proposes this ten point plan for (not) producing better indigenous churches. He’s writing out of his fifteen years of missions work [...]
