We are praying that you are regularly experiencing God’s grace and presence in your life. Most recently, the events in Turkey and Syria have been heartbreaking with all the lives lost and impacted. If you have not been tracking that crisis, please be praying for God to make Himself known in the crisis, grief, and tragedy and that the vulnerable would find protection and provision.
In our world, resourcing and collaborating with IGSL alumni has been a theme this month for us (See the video above). The pandemic allowed IGSL to start an alumni resourcing and care ministry, which is bearing significant fruit in field impact and new student recruiting. Providing ongoing mentoring, coaching, and support to our alumni is not just encouraging these leaders, but it’s helping multiply impact.
Here are a few fun examples from the last couple of weeks….
How do we move from surviving to leading?
This was one of the central questions asked when I spent some time doing strategic consultation for a Manila megachurch a couple of weeks ago.
Alumni are coming to us with requests for help to transition their churches and ministries strategically post-pandemic. Asia just “opened up” from the pandemic 6 months ago and many church leaders and pastors are just now wrestling with how to lead into the future after being in survival for so long. This consultation involved an alumni and some of his team that are leading a large Chinese-Filipino church in the city with a relatively new vision to be a church of multiplying disciple-makers.
I was not sure how much I could help given the distance and time difference, but what excited me was having the chance to use some of those muscles again and see this team leave our time with clarity and confidence about some of where they needed to trust the Lord and pray as they develop clarity about where God is leading them. Sometimes consulting is not about fixing or providing answers, but helping people confirm what they already are discerning about what God is doing and how He is leading. Those opportunities are such a blessing!
There are a lot of needs in these areas for pastors and ministry leaders globally in the rest of the world now so please be praying for wisdom and resourcing for those leaders in places where resources and connections are not as abundant.
