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July 16, 2019

Building Community in the Church

reshared with kind permission from author Barry Voss. An important and often unrecognized role of the church leader is to build community among those he or she leads. Just as Christ surrounded Himself with his disciples and lived in fellowship with them, we too as leaders must develop a Christian community among our people as well. We need to recognize that God desires that we work together in ministry, with each of us being a part of the Body of Christ. No person can do all of the work of the ministry alone. By developing a community of faithful believers […]

May 23, 2019

GProCommission Interview with TOPIC: Increasing the Capacity

We all want more pastors to get more and better training. We are all contributing to that effort in some way with the passion, vision and resources God has provided us. We will never meet the need, though, unless we figure out how to work together more and better. Trainers of Pastors International Coalition (TOPIC) does just that—helps pastoral training organizations and local churches intentionally collaborate to train pastors more widely and effectively. We interviewed Al Bridges, TOPIC global facilitator, to learn more. The term “coalition” refers to a goal-driven cooperation between participants who retain their distinctive identities and interests. […]

May 2, 2017

Engaging Community Leaders of a Marginalised Group

By Rev. Dr. Rachel Rajagopal In the last three months, I hosted meetings with various groups of Garifuna leaders from the Atlantida region of Honduras. My stipulation to the Garifuna community leader who was helping me coordinate these meetings was very clear: only those aged 21 years – 50 years were to be carefully selected and invited. They needed to be current or emerging leaders in the community. After much prayer, I decided to conduct meetings with four different groups: Single female leaders Young adult leaders Single male leaders Young adult married couple leaders Among the 8,000 Garifunas in one […]