Over the past two months, I have conducted an interface seminar and workshop with a church in Manila, Philippines. The seminar was standard, and the Workshop continued our trialling process. The Pastors of this church were graduates of Kairos in the 1990s when mission mobilization was a revival movement in the Southern Philippines. Having pioneered […]
Max Chismon
Max Chismon is the International Director of Simply Mobilizing International (SMI). He and his wife founded the organization in response to a clear call to help mobilize the Filipino Church towards cross-cultural ministry to unreached peoples.
New Year’s Message (2024)
During my time at Bible School, a lecturer, Doc Greenway, frequently emphasized a powerful notion: “God has a plan for your life and a purpose that you, and only you, can fulfill.” King David declared in my favorite Psalm, Psalm 139, that “all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one […]
INTERFACE and the HOW!
Since the launch of INTERFACE 2nd edition several years ago, our seminar on Missional Church has been conducted in scores of countries around the world and has been translated into 13 different languages. The Biblical paradigms INTERFACE espouses clearly champions missional church as not one option among many but as the only option! The positive […]
Mobiology – An Introduction
Over recent centuries, the development and refining of missiology has helped the Church focus on the missional task at hand. It may have begun in the colonial context with a geographical focus but has been considerably refined in recent decades to direct our attention to people groups and today to the more than 7,000 people […]
Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing, in 2023
New year’s resolutions are a common talking point in early January of each year. They range from more prayer to weight loss and everything in between! But how about, for 2023, a special focus on ‘keeping the main thing the main thing’? Minoring on majors and majoring on minors is a recipe for, at worse, […]
My Recent Trip to the Philippines and Europe
I have been away (from NZ) for just under two months. The first three weeks was spent in the Philippines with the SMI Center team. This was a great time of catching up with everyone and it was so good seeing the Center Team doing so well! My main purpose for this travel was to […]
Mobilizers – Preparing a People for Eternity
This ‘age’ is as much about the perfecting of the Church as it is about making disciples of all nations! An idea, we Mobilizers, often neglect at our peril! These two great themes run like parallel tracks throughout scripture! God taking out of the world a people for His name (Ac 15: 13-18) and God perfecting […]
Has Mission Come Full Circle?
Have we come full circle? Do we find ourselves, today, in a mission context very similar to that of Paul and the early Church? Mission in Paul’s day was E1* and E2*. Cultural adaptation of the message was necessary, but learning a new language was not! The cities of the Roman world, such as Ephesus, […]
Interpreting Scripture in the Context of Mission
Scripture must be interpreted in the context of mission! Wow, quite a statement, and one that not all seminary professors might be comfortable with, nor most pastors, I would hasten to add! In fact, I would surmise that the vast majority of church leaders today, regardless of their field of leadership, would quite possibly find […]
Mobilization – As a Journey
Mobilization is a journey, not an event. Seminars, courses and other mobilization programs are the events. The journey into active and fruitful participation in the world Christian movement is a journey that demands many ‘events’ and a lot of personal processing of what these events provide, in the form of new information and challenges. […]