Building and Leading Effective Teams
– lessons learned from leading and observing teams. One must begin by saying how great teams can be! I have over the years thoroughly enjoyed being and doing things together in team and accomplishing something significant. Personally, I have also enjoyed team sports most of my life (my favourite by far being rugby) and the synergy […]
From the Table to the Cross: How Hospitality Opens Hearts to the Gospel
“They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts… And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:46–47, NIV) From the very beginning, hospitality has been a natural habitat for evangelism. In Acts, the early believers didn’t just preach sermons in public squares—they welcomed […]
Keys to being a Strategic and Spiritual Leader
All three of these words are important. They are embedded in the very essence of scripture. God from the very beginning had a broad strategic plan for the redemption of mankind into this plan. God intervened and made possible his purposes which by the nature of God was spiritual and we see leadership and strategy. […]
Key principles in mobilizing to DTS and beyond
It’s September 21, 2005, when I make the journey from Belgium to the Netherlands to start something that many had doubts about. I quit my job as a professional pastry chef and chocolatier and left friends and family behind. But why? What had convinced me to sign up for a Discipleship Training School (DTS) at […]
How Can Lausanne 2024 Facilitate Youth with a Mission (YWAM) Europe?
Rather than asking how Lausanne 2024 can impact YWAM Europe, I believe it’s more relevant to consider how it can facilitate our mission. This process is already underway. It was a tremendous joy to witness over 5,000 individuals gathering in South Korea. During one afternoon, YWAM workers came together for lunch, and to my surprise, […]
Mental Health on the Mission Field
by Elizabeth Joy Redekop Leaders on the mission field have been given one of the highest honors. We are entrusted to make decisions for, care for, and shepherd God’s children, all to make God’s name known to all people! It’s a role of great influence. How are you influencing your team? How can you care […]
Spiritual Eldership
At 21, in Youth With A Mission (YWAM) England, I was impressed by the wisdom of national leaders in their thirties. I listened eagerly as they spoke or discussed issues at staff gatherings. One or two even talked with me and advised a ministry strategy for my return to university after working in the refugee […]
Missionary Poverty, Debt and Budgeting
POVERTY I confess that I have been in debt before and found it to be disturbing, distressing, and demoralizing. I was an urban missionary in New York City with a family of six. We did our best to survive in one of the most expensive places to live in the United States. Although my ministry […]
Principles of Conflict Mediation
How can you help friends, co-workers or family resolve their conflicts and disagreements? The stress and pain involved can become so strong that people cannot bring resolution on their own. They may have tried to go to the person directly themselves, (as Matthew 18:15 exhorts us in cases of one person sinning or doing wrong […]
Reaching your neighbors and strangers on your doorstep in Europe
As soon as the conversation turns about the refugees, the tension increases. We Christians are not spared from such tensions. In the following article, I would like to give first a brief analysis and categorization of current developments (mostly out of Germany, the country I work currently). In a second part, I will then try […]
