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Time Magazine reports on Nelson Mandela’s 8 Leadership Lessions:

Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond itLead from the front — but don’t leave your base behindLead from the back — and let others believe they are in frontKnow your enemy — and learn about his favorite sportKeep your [...]

Shawn Lovejoy and David Putman know something about church planting. They’ve done it, they’ve helped others do it, they’ve watched and learnt from the planters who make it and those who don’t.

About a third of the way through this video they talk about the five best practices that church planters must build into their lives [...]

Leadership Network recently reported on the trend of missionaries headed to the US. Momentum reports that the Chinese are coming. The latest edition of Pulse also looks at the movement of missionaries from the developing world to the West.

As individuals and entire people groups move from their homelands to foreign countries, many creative opportunities become [...]

A bit of light relief thanks to Kiwi, Andrew Taylor. Two advertising executives create campaigns to inspire Australians to cross the Tasman Sea and invade New Zealand.

“Helen Clark” referred to in the second ad is the current New Zealand Prime Minister. A warning for bad language.

Of course Australia does have a just claim to the [...]

A few more lessons from Oscar Muriu on growing leaders for a church planting movement. . .

Take bold steps. Breaking up a vibrant, healthy church into five separate churches could be a recipe for disaster. Not if you’ve intentionally growing leaders and team members for every ministry of the church who are ready for the [...]

I was talking to a group of church leaders about what Oscar Muriu has taught me about growing leaders for a church planting movement.

One of them challenged me with, “How do we know this works in Australia?”

He’s right. There are some things that don’t translate across cultures. Or even within cultures. That’s why I always [...]

One reason for Oscar Muriu’s success in growing leaders for a church planting movement is that he didn’t know what he was doing. He was young enough not to know it couldn’t be done and smart enough to copy from the best. This what he told me. . .

All I do is I copy.

You don’t [...]

How challenging does an internship it need to be?

They need to have enough responsibility on their shoulders that they are having sleepless nights. That they are on their knees pleading with the Lord to give them wisdom and strength. Because if they don’t have that then they are not challenged…

Somebody once told me one [...]

While Albert barbecued the goat, I chatted to David Githugu about his experience as an intern and church planter with Nairobi Chapel under Oscar Muriu’s leadership.

David first came into contact with Nairobi Chapel as a university student. In 2002 he left a lucrative legal career and took a big paycut to become a pastor. In [...]

Here’s a photo I took of a just a handful of the church planters, pastors and interns who have been trained by Oscar and Beatrice Muriu.

Many church leaders say they want to grow leaders. Few actually do. I asked Oscar Muriu how he turns good intentions into reality. This is his reply. . .

We came [...]