Summer 2008

 
 

::Advisor or Investor? New E-Book by Doug Carter::

"I think we all can get excited about partnership with Jesus in His redemptive plan for a lost world. But let us remember that partnership always requires an investment. Advisors are not partners; investors are! I believe Jesus is still looking for partners in Great Commission ministry."

Read more...

 
::Volume 2 Launches in Africa!::

This is an exciting time for Million Leaders Mandate in Africa! With the first Volume 2 conferences just a few days away! Volume 2, TTT 1 will be in Nairobi July 30-31, and then subsequently in Eldoret, Lagos, and Abuja in September.

Walk Thru the Bible South Africa is moving forward with a new national Associate Trainer based model, with plans to have the first SQUARE 1 training for their team of national Associate Trainers in October.

The EQUIP team is excited about the launches of Volume 2 in Africa, and what God will do to strengthen His church and expand His kingdom as leaders are equipped in these transformational leadership principles. Please be in prayer for this exciting next step
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::Million Leaders Mandate goes to Taiwan!::

EQUIP partners with KC Liu and Vincent Chen to train leaders in Taiwan.

KC and Vincent have a great vision to train pastors, business leaders
and students in Taiwan. The Million Leaders Mandate training was
launched in Taiwan in March 2008.

Vincent Chen (left) and KC Liu (right)








KC said, "For the first time,
churches in Taiwan are getting stirred up and excited about leadership in the church."
 

Liu went on to say that there is one church in Taijong that has an after-school program for children from single parent families. And that many of the teachers from the program came to the Million Leaders Mandate leadership training.

Soon enough the teachers started to apply the leadership principles they learned and now it is making a difference in how they are working with the children!

KC and Vincent shared that the church has a unique vision -- to see these children from single parent families be the future leaders in Taiwan.

"Not only is Million Leaders Mandate equipping these leaders, it is also being used to equip the future leaders of Taiwan." - KC Liu.


 

 

 

 

 

    
By Sarah Jones, Director of International Ministries

Cameroon is Africa’s most complex country with over 280 languages and potentially over 500 ethnic groups. It is located in the continental “hinge” between Central and West Africa, sharing a border with Nigeria on the west. Cameroon has experienced a rapid growth in Christianity in the 1990’s through church plants, national missionaries, and evangelistic efforts.

Training Participants in Classroom at Centre for Biblical Studies
In spite of this growth in Christianity, the country faces issues common in many parts of Africa; physical poverty and hardship are exacerbated by increasing media and materialism imported from the west and global inflation, alongside traditions of business which include payment of bribes in every level of society; there is deep spiritual poverty due to long-standing nominal Christianity.

There is a burning need for godly, courageous leaders who are equipped to lead their churches, communities, and nation for Christ.

In March, EQUIP partnered with... read more.


 

 
  



John Hull, President/CEO, EQUIPIn John Maxwell’s latest book, Leadership Gold, he states, “If you want to lead, you must learn; if you want to continue to lead, you must continue to learn.” This statement greatly reflects the hearts of the vast majority of those who have completed the Million Leaders Mandate Volume 1 Training.

Volume 1, which consists of EQUIP’s original MLM 6 Notebooks, is just the first portion—“if you want to lead, you must learn.” Through a well-balanced diet of spiritual, skill, and strategic formation lessons, the top Christian leaders around the world are beginning to see what a difference leadership development can make. By Notebook 3 of Volume 1, they realize leadership is more about themselves than anything else. They begin to practically see that their personal growth is making a difference.

By Lesson 36 in Notebook 6, these leaders... read more.



Join John C. Maxwell and EQUIP for the 2008 Pebble Beach Leadership Summit and Golf Classic, October 20-23, 2008!

For more information or to register visit www.iEQUIP.org/Pebble08.

 
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China has almost one and one-half billion people – more than 20% of all people on the earth! She has rapidly become a military and economic superpower. Her massive factories and underpaid workforce, the world’s largest, are producing goods and services for the entire world.

When the brutal dictator Mao expelled the Nationalists from China in the late 1940s, he established a reign of terror with an official policy to eliminate religion from Chinese society. Locked behind the Bamboo Curtain and reduced in number to 500,000 adherents, the Chinese Church seemed to have no hope for survival. The world assumed the faithful in China had been fully eliminated.

But in spite of persecution, the... read more.


 


Desmond Frey, Country Coordinator for SwitzerlandFor centuries the world has focused on Europe. It is situated within a relatively small geographical area with over 100 languages, 48 countries and many more cultures with history stretching over thousands of years. Europe has been a leader for centuries in setting the stage for the rest of the world in architecture, law, technology, science, culture and religion. It is a place of influence.

It has been a home, sadly, for two World Wars and has produced such Christian giants as Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, and Charles Spurgeon.

However, in the last few decades, there has been an increase in materialism, secularism and neo-paganism that has replaced the Christian moral value system. “Even though Europeans have never been as free to hear and respond to the gospel as today, the reality is that Europe continues to be one of the major challenges for the church of Christ in our times,” reports European Christian Mission International. Only one out of every 40 Europeans ... read more.