Leader Chat: Tim Elmore | Part 1

I sat down to interview Dr. Tim Elmore, founder of Growing Leaders. We’ve been friends for a long time and I appreciate his experience as a leading authority on how to understand the next generation. In this episode, we talk candidly about how to grow effective leaders in our current reality. Tim shares some incredible strategies for […]

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Biblical rules of (audience) engagement

I’ve been actively engaging people in missions since boyhood. As a youngster, my parents dressed my brother and me in flowy, traditional Arabic outfits as we traveled to the local churches raising support for our middle-eastern missions. In the 70’s & 80’s, my teenage brother and I cold-called churches from a closet “call center” to see if […]

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Top 10 youth dense countries we work in

Sometimes our mission of “God’s Word, Every Child” prompts the question, “why children?”  The tone varies from honest curiosity to judgmental condemnation. On a pragmatic level, we know youth are often the easiest audience to accept the Truth. We also know that children who accept this Truth go on to lead more spiritually vibrant lives later in […]

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Macrotrend: Inevitable Clash of Islam and Christianity

  Islam and Christianity have long been at odds as two dominant expansionary world religions, but geography has allowed some distance between the two faiths. As population increases and our world becomes more globalized, it is inevitable that the two religions will be swept toward each other with its devotees forced to face off not […]

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Macro Trend: The Secularizing Power of Globalization

Have you noticed how kids all over the world seem to look alike? Fashion trends span the globe, music is no longer regional, technology looks, feels and works the same no matter where on earth you are. Because we have all access all the time, we are starting to see that the teenage “norm” has […]

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