Global Connections

This has been a very encouraging week at this gathering of leaders from countries around the world who are sending workers through SIM.

It has been a very full schedule starting with breakfast meetings at 7 a.m. and going into the evening.  But the fellowship and sharing of vision and hearts keeps me going.

One evening I walked to the night market for dinner with Jin from Korea, Julieta from Ecuador and Obed from Guatemala.  We are colleagues in SIM and brothers and sisters in Christ.

Today I led a session on global trends in society and in the church impacting how we in SIM send people from over 55 countries into the world.   This was primarily a brainstorming session which brought out some very good suggestions on how to both take advantage of trends and overcome others which are adversely effecting mobilizing people into missions.

One of the greatest benefits of this gathering is to sit with leaders from across the world and talk about how we can work together to advance the cause of Christ.  In the photo above I met this morning with leaders from Singapore, the U.S., Korea, Australia and West Africa about ways we can focus efforts on countries of Asia.