Exciting mobilization is happening with local church partners of Compassion International-Philippines under the Agusan del Norte cluster. On January 23 to 27, selected project directors and case workers took the Kairos Course. It was a moment of reflection and affirmation that their work contributes to the Great Commission as they minister to the children. It […]
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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, […]
A Christmas Message
The 25th December is a very special day for each one of us, as we think of and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus’ life has had a profound impact on the world (so much more than most non-Christians will admit). He lived a life of integrity, daily submitting himself to God, and doing […]
2022 Annual Report
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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 […]
SM Youth Mobilizers Move Forward Together
In 2022, one of our youth initiatives was to start a series of meetings as SM Youth Forum. Our goal is to gather youth mobilizers representing the 12 global regions to strengthen our community and move forward together. In our first meeting in July, it was agreed that our encounters would contribute to build a […]
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 […]
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 […]
A New Approach
The Western Africa team have been advocating for the Mobi 101 seminar as a pre-course to the Kairos FTC. We also felt the need to replace the FTC at the end of the Kairos course with the Mobi 101 seminar. I tried this approach once in Ghana. I decided to wait for two more trials to be able to give this new approach a fair assessment.
On Trial: New Translation Trainings
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.