Multiplying Short Term Team Leaders. Brigada profiles Team Leader Training by Delta Ministries international. The idea is that you train leaders—who take the tools home and lead trainings themselves. This leads to multiplication. You can ask yourself the question: how is your training/program/activity reproducible by the people you train? Can they train others who train [...]

Ed. Note: I am getting back into the office and back into the swing of regular publication schedules. Here is a quick collection of links to notable articles related to the church worldwide. Thanks for bearing with us as we have been in the process of a move to Texas. Government Relations, Surveillance "Implications of [...]

“Goal setting: don’t pick the low-hanging fruit,” Christopher Peterson, Psychology Today. “Sometimes the easy things are not the good things. Sometimes expediency gets in the way of efficiency and often in the way of excellence.” A worthwhile read for considering how the goal we set can keep  us from the next highest goal: because what [...]

“Feeding the wolves,” Bob Osburn, Mission Frontiers. He writes passionately: The problem? Decisions are taking precedence over discipleship. In the process, there is an increasing gap between the numbers who are deciding for Christ and the numbers who are being trained as disciples. The wolves are eating the difference. Is it time to slow the [...]

In “What will it take to make a difference?” (September 2006), I theorized we would need some 42,000 teams (150,000 workers) in order to fully engage the unreached. (Half of this, or about 20,000, would be focused on the least-evangelized.) This was based on a fairly simple formula: 1 Team raising up 100 locals who [...]

I have often said that pioneering UPG ministry is very similar to tech startups, and that a lot can be learn from them. In “From Stanford to Startup,” the creators of the iPhone app Instagram discuss 8 startup myths. Instagram is used by 4 million people to share 6 photos per second. Here are the [...]

“Africa can feed itself in a generation,” in the 1 billion hungry project. This short 3-page briefing examines The New Harvest, by Calestous Juma. I haven’t read the book, but the briefing makes for compelling reading. This content is only available to members of JustinLong.org. Subscribe now for $9.95/month For the price of a Kindle [...]

3:38pm Minor update below to straighten out the point numbering. Sorry about that. Following in the vein of E. Goodman and E. Arthur, Simon Cozens, a missionary to Japan, has now written a long post entitled “Rethinking people groups.” He says it is essentially a rant in response to Paul Eshleman’s “truly extraordinary paper” for [...]

Just a few weeks ago, WIRED’s Danger Room notes dryly, many observers thought the campaign in Libya was going nowhere. I will freely admit to being one of those who thought the likelihood of a long, drawn-out battle and the effective partitioning of Libya was the most likely scenario. Even when they captured Zawiya, my [...]

My posting over these next few days to the blog may be a little more erratic, as I am presently in Dallas for a series of organizational team meetings. I am with Mission to Unreached Peoples. We are a mission (agency? Society? Good question) that hs been around for about twenty years or so. I [...]