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.

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INTERFACE and the HOW!

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 […]

Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing, in 2023

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, […]

Mobilizers – Preparing a People for Eternity

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 […]

Interpreting Scripture in the Context of Mission

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 – 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. […]

Understanding the Nature of Missions Today

Understanding the Nature of Missions Today

Never before in mission history has the world existed as it does today – never before have the opportunities for harvest been so favorable, and never before has the need for mobilization been so urgent! Through the amazing efforts of the missionaries laboring in the first and second eras of the modern missionary movement (1792 – […]