Dan Brown: Learning About StrengthDoes God teach missionaries? Definitely! Well, let's just say that the good ones come equipped with a humble learning posture. Take Dan Brown, for example.
In this clip, A3/SIM missionary Dan Brown shares about what he is learning about doing ministry in his own strength versus doing it through God's strength. Serving with A3 as a Missional Partner with Oasis Life Chapel in Rifu, Japan, Dan talks openly about his weakness and struggles in ministry:
"So I've really come to learn that I'll do my part. I'll do the possible. I'll go to class. I'll study. I'll show up for ministry, for church each week, just to love and serve people to be a presence. But really it's going to be God who has to do the work."
Dan and his wife Casi arrived in Japan in the Fall of 2012 and are currently...
Nozomi Project started in 2012 as a response to Japan's terrible tsunami in 2011. And through this creative ministry, God is making something beautiful in brokenness. Sue Takamoto of A3, through Be One Network, launched Nozomi Project (or "Hope" Project) to provide employment, dignity, biblical community and hope for women whose lives were broken by the disaster. Using broken shards of ceramic pottery, these workers create beautiful pieces of jewelry—not only as a way to make sustainable income, but more importantly to put their lives back together. The waves ruthlessly took away their loved ones, their homes and their hope; Nozomi Project is gracefully helping these women put the pieces back together...
The Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College is doing a series of one-on-one interviews with a global leader. On its website, they write:
God has raised up a host of creative, passionate individuals who are leading the Church in evangelism and missions. Here we invite you to get to know some of them.
And they have interviewed Joe Handley, president of A3:
Joseph W. Handley, Jr. is president of A3. Joe was born and raised in Southern California and attended Azusa Pacific University, where he earned a BA in psychology. He spent nine years working at APU, where he founded and directed the Office of World Missions and directed one of the first multi-national high school mission congresses, Conquest ‘96. During his time at APU, both Joe and his wife, Silk, were earned their MAs. In 1998, the Lord called them to Rolling Hills Covenant Church, where Joe served as global (and lead) outreach pastor. In June 2008, Joe...
Sometimes the biggest benefits our leaders gain from A3 come from one another. A3 National Director for Cambodia Meng Aun Hour is, like all of our national leaders, a volunteer. Like all of our national leaders, he has a primary ministry. And like all of our national leaders, he actually has several “primary” ministries. But Meng’s list could make even the most Type-A leader pause for breath. It includes...
A little delegation can go a long way.
One of the key outcomes A3 works for its graduates to realize is to Reproduce Disciple-Making Leaders. We know that more ministry can be accomplished, more effectively—and more healthily--when teams of leaders are developed and responsibilities are delegated.
However, this model is not necessarily the norm...
You never know what you will run into with A3
All of our A3 National Directors have day jobs—usually, many day jobs. Chinzorig Jigjidsuren, our Mongolian National Director, is no exception. He is lead pastor for a large church in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia’s capitol city) and a key member of the Mongolian Church Council, a consortium of pastors and other key leaders committed to reaching Mongolia’s 2.7 million people for Christ. He is also a husband, father, and grandfather.
But his most intriguing day job is his role as board chair for one of the most innovative media outreaches I’ve seen anywhere. FM 104.5 is a commercial radio station that has been broadcasting in Ulaanbaatar for the past 12 years.
You never know what you will run into with A3
All of our A3 National Directors have day jobs—usually, many day jobs. Chinzorig Jigjidsuren, A3/Mongolia National Director, is no exception. He is lead pastor for a large church in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia’s capitol city) and a key member of the Mongolian Church Council, a consortium of pastors and other key leaders committed to reaching Mongolia’s 2.7 million people for Christ. He is also a husband, father, and grandfather.
But his most intriguing day job is his role as board chair for one of the most innovative media outreaches I’ve seen anywhere. FM 104.5 is a commercial radio station that has been broadcasting in Ulaanbaatar for the past 12 years...
If I’d known I’d be dancing in A2, I’d have taken lessons.
One unfortunate aspect of Christian culture in many parts of the world is the strictures that are put on pastors and other leaders. It’s considered "spiritual" for leaders to be very serious, have no outside activities or interests, never take time for holiday or vacation, and basically work themselves to death. There are a number of reasons for this phenomenon — a combination of Western missionary mistakes combined with rigid cultural expectations—but what it has created is generations of Christian leaders who suffer from burnouts and breakdowns . . .
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