Last January, Mika Kosonen, SM Europe Global Region Coordinator and National Coordinator for Sweden, successfully launched the inaugural The Unfinished Story for Youth (TUSfY) with the enthusiastic participation of 17 attendees aged 13 to 25 in Borås. Among them were youth pastors, leaders, students, and teenagers representing various regions including Umeå, Eskilstuna, Gothenburg, Borås, as […]
Lecille Garcia
From Learning to Leading
In the bustling month of November, Ptr. James Quisquirin, National Coordinator (NC) of SM Philippines, led two impactful courses that subtly shifted perspectives and stirred hearts. The first course, an online Empowered to Influence (ETI) course, engaged 19 participants from Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines while the other was a Kairos Course, conducted in the […]
Southern Africa Coordinators Reunite For Leaders’ Consultation
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Southern Africa National Coordinators and New Nations Coordinators were finally able to gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a three-day consultation last January 23-25. The event was organized and spearheaded by the SA Global Region Team (GRT), consisting of Keith Koster, Ray Lopez, and Gerhard Cloete. […]
Pastors Conduct Interface Seminar
An Interface seminar was organized last November 21 for the Butuan Evangelical Ministers’ Association (BEMA), in Butuan City, Philippines. Thirty-six pastors and leaders joined this momentous event which was facilitated by three of their fellow pastors in BEMA, who themselves went through the Interface seminar earlier. It was a unique Interface seminar because it was […]
GDC: What Will Moving Forward Together Look Like?
Moving Forward Together was the theme of the Global Development Consultation (GDC) that was held online last August 8-12. This was a five-day event, attended by SM’s international leaders, global region leaders and their teams, and for the first time, our national leaders and their teams. It was a challenge to organize these meetings considering […]
Why You Should Take Kairos
‘Kairos is the only course I have ever encountered that changes worldview in the shortest possible time’, says one of our national team in a restricted-access country. This observation has been re-echoed in many of the countries where the Kairos course has been conducted. From its modest roots in the Philippines, Kairos has been instrumental […]