My interview on the A3/SIM Strategic Partnership for Japan
Mission Network News interviewed me last
Friday (11.11.11), which was the day we announced our new strategic partnership with SIM. You can read the MNN article here...
During the interview, I shared that there were numerous factors in our decision to partner with SIM. Over our three-year journey, God was confirming this direction in many ways. Here are just a few:
- The need for more church planting missionaries in Japan is phenomenal. The earthquake.tsunami/nuclear disaster only magnified this need.
- Japanese pastors have tremendous vision to plant more churches, and they have asked A3 to help by sending more missionaries to come alongside them in their work. SIM USA increases our capacity to send many more missionaries.
- We're in a different era for North American missions—it's a time of synergy for collaborative endeavors. We believe it's the shape of things to come.
- One of our core values is networking; partnering is what we have already been doing throughout our 44-year history.
- Partnership can help us do mission more effectively and efficiently—to be better stewards, leverage our strengths, and hopefully increase our ministry results.
Please be praying for this strategic partnership for Japan. Listen to the interview so that you can be informed and know how you can pray for us as we enter this new era in missions.
I hope you enjoy listening to my full interview (10 minutes), conducted by Elisa Talmage at MNN.
Listen to the interview...
Direct Link: https://www.asianaccess.org/mnn/11-14-11JoeHandley.mp3
Joe Handley, President
A3
p.s. - If you don't see an audio player, here's the direct link...
