Geof Gunton is the Associate Director for Simply Mobilizing. He served in Latin America for many years as part of the Global Region Team. He is currently based in Australia with his wife Marion, and his kids, Segana and Michael.
This April, we facilitated a Kairos class in western Ukraine for war refugees. These people had escaped from Kharkov and Mariupol, places of terrible fighting, destruction, and danger. Kairos focuses on God’s good and unstoppable plan to reach the nations with the Gospel and emphasizes reaching unreached people groups.
Interestingly, Kairos was a wonderful form of healing and therapy for these refugees. Tracing God’s powerful hand working all through history to spread the glory of the Gospel through all the earth inspires and comforts. Even this war is not randomly evil nor unredeemable. God is fulfilling His purposes to spread the Good News of His Son throughout the earth.
Over the years, as Simply Mobilizing has developed, we have learnt so much from our successes and failures. Much of this learning is now reflected in our Operations Manuals. Our Coordinators Training (now called Franchise Training) has been designed to help coordination teams in firstly, understanding the valued learning reflected in our Operations Manuals, and […]
2020 was a year of many firsts for SM. It was the year of trialing SM courses and programs online. Despite incredible challenges, almost every global region trialed online courses or seminars, and many countries embraced the new video-conferencing opportunities. South East Asia, South Asia, Europe, Eurasia, MENA, East Africa, North America and Latin America […]
For each one of us, 2020 has been very different from what we had expected. We were all going ahead with various plans we had made for the year, and then city by city, country by country, things began to change. It’s a great example of what Ralph Winter refers to as a ‘new chronology’. […]
