foto Everywhere you go in India they want to you teach and preach. But it’s amazing what you can learn if you assume you know nothing and listen to what God is already doing. We caught up with some great folk in India. I’d better not tell you who and where. Conversion can be against [...]
Tag Archives: Church planting movements
Andrew Evans on the rise and rise of the Australian Assemblies of God
20 August, 2008 – 1:31 AM
Andrew Evans was born in India to missionary parents. He served as a missionary in Papua New Guinea. Back in Australia he took a church of 150 people and grew it to thousands—Paradise AOG. For twenty years he led the Assemblies of God (now Australian Christian Churches) in exponential growth of both churches and people. [...]
Reverse Mission Movement
15 July, 2008 – 10:06 AM
Leadership Network recently reported on the trend of missionaries headed to the US. Momentum reports that the Chinese are coming. The latest edition of Pulse also looks at the movement of missionaries from the developing world to the West. As individuals and entire people groups move from their homelands to foreign countries, many creative opportunities [...]
A few more lessons from Africa
11 July, 2008 – 12:32 AM
A few more lessons from Oscar Muriu on growing leaders for a church planting movement. . . Take bold steps. Breaking up a vibrant, healthy church into five separate churches could be a recipe for disaster. Not if you’ve intentionally growing leaders and team members for every ministry of the church who are ready for [...]
Learning from Africa
10 July, 2008 – 1:58 AM
I was talking to a group of church leaders about what Oscar Muriu has taught me about growing leaders for a church planting movement. One of them challenged me with, “How do we know this works in Australia?†He’s right. There are some things that don’t translate across cultures. Or even within cultures. That’s why [...]
Oscar’s sons and daughters
8 July, 2008 – 6:05 AM
One reason for Oscar Muriu’s success in growing leaders for a church planting movement is that he didn’t know what he was doing. He was young enough not to know it couldn’t be done and smart enough to copy from the best. This what he told me. . . All I do is I copy. [...]
More on how Oscar Muriu grows leaders
6 July, 2008 – 5:37 AM
How challenging does an internship it need to be? They need to have enough responsibility on their shoulders that they are having sleepless nights. That they are on their knees pleading with the Lord to give them wisdom and strength. Because if they don’t have that then they are not challenged… Somebody once told me [...]
How growing leaders became a reality
4 July, 2008 – 4:48 AM
Here’s a photo I took of a just a handful of the church planters, pastors and interns who have been trained by Oscar and Beatrice Muriu. Many church leaders say they want to grow leaders. Few actually do. I asked Oscar Muriu how he turns good intentions into reality. This is his reply. . . [...]
How Oscar grows leaders
2 July, 2008 – 3:38 AM
The next installment on how Oscar Muriu grows leaders for a church planting movement. How did it all begin? In 1989 Nairobi Chapel was a dwindling, discouraged group of whites praying that God would show them what to do. They sought new leadership to help them reach the African students around them. I was finishing [...]
Life with limits
12 June, 2008 – 3:20 AM
Every living thing has limits to growth. Ever living thing dies. Growth has its boundaries in both space and time. God made elephants big. He made whales enormous. But even their size has its limits. There are trees on this planet that last thousands of years. Even they die. Growth is not the point. Size [...]
