Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Ethnic • Intercultural • Language • Leadership • Training
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
NOTE: A companion workshop to these articles is available to multi-ethnic churches that provides information, exercises and interaction to encourage the implementation of those disciplines that promote healthy intercultural relationships. Please contact Mark at mark.naylor@twu.ca
Whose rules rule?
In the innovative cultural simulation game, Barnga, created by Sivasailam Thiagarajan, groups of people play a simple card game [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Communication • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Ethnic • Intercultural • Language • Multicultural • Sindhi
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
NOTE: A companion workshop to these articles is available to multi-ethnic churches that provides information, exercises and interaction to encourage the implementation of those disciplines that promote healthy intercultural relationships. Please contact Mark at mark.naylor@twu.ca
The High Power Distance / Low Power Distance1 Culture Clash
HPD = High Power Distance [...]
Posted on July 1st, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Leadership • Training
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
(This is an edited reprint from FEBInternational’s publication “Focal Point”)
“There are too few trained leaders!” This statement jumped out at me from my browser one morning a short while ago. Although the Operation World web page was referring to Burkina Faso, this statement describes many countries with thousands of young Christians [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2005 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Ethnic • Evangelism • Language • Leadership • Mentoring • Missional • Missionary • Missions • Training
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
The Need for Cross-cultural Leadership Training:
Why FEBInternational is developing
the CLTP program
“We no longer need ‘general practitioner’ missionaries here.” This comment from an experienced FEBI missionary points to an important reality in missions today: the need for quality personnel who can provide “value added” ministry. A guiding principle to validate [...]
Posted on January 3rd, 2004 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Cross-Cultural • Culture • Language • Mentoring • Missionary • Sindhi • Worldview
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
Before my wife, Karen, and I went to Pakistan in 1985 we learned the LAMP (Language Acquisition Made Practical) method of language learning. Although I often wished the course had been better tailored to suit my ability (perhaps LAMPSSSSS - Language Acquisition Made Perfectly Smooth Sailing for the Simple minded [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Communication • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Ethnic • Intercultural • Language • Mentoring • Religion • Sindhi • Training • Worldview
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
<p>While we were learning the Sindhi language in Pakistan during the 1980s my wife, Karen, tried to discover the word for "share" and was given a word essentially equivalent to the English "give". The problem was that "share" is a concept based on a principle of individual ownership and the permission required for another to [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Communication • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Dialogue • Language • Leadership • Mentoring • Missionary • Missions • Training • Translation
Categories: Cross-cultural leadership training
The people in the best position to teach others are those who are actually involved in doing the task that needs to be taught. This conviction is behind the goal of creating an experience-based mentored environment for the training of cross-cultural ministers through Northwest Baptist Seminary (www.nbseminary.com/), located on the [...]