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 April 8th, 2008 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Communication • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Dialogue • Ethnic • Intercultural • Language • Leadership • Missions • Multicultural • Sindhi
Categories: Culture and Worldview
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 Power Distance Contrast
In Pakistan there is a strong tradition of “holy men” who are called Pirs. One day I [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Communication • Culture • Ethnic • Intercultural • Language • Leadership • Missions • Multicultural
Categories: Culture and Worldview
NOTE: A companion workshop to these articles is available to multi-ethnic churches that provides information, exercises and interaction so that those disciplines that promote healthy intercultural relationships can be implemented. Please contact Mark at mark.naylor@twu.ca
Multicultural Fragmentation
The story of Babel (Gen 11) records the story of the first failure of an intercultural enterprise. Since [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Evangelism • Intercultural • Islam • Language • Leadership • Missional • Missions • Short Term Missions • Sindhi • Training • Translation
Categories: Uncategorized
Coordinator of the Centre for Intercultural Leadership Development (CILD)
Mark served along with Karen, his wife, in Pakistan among the Sindhi Muslim people for fourteen years, doing evangelism, church planting and leadership development. He continues with his responsibilities as the supervisor and primary exegete for the Sindhi Old Testament translation project. Here at Northwest Mark’s responsibilities [...]
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 February 5th, 2007 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Culture • Leadership • Missional • Missions
Categories: Missional Church
A Fatal Trend
When we were missionaries in Pakistan there was a time when “church planting” became the standard for our team - it was the tie to church planting that validated the ministries we were involved in. However, the demand for a direct church planting connection resulted in an analysis and [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2006 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Culture • Leadership • Missional • Sindhi
Categories: Missional Church
FEBI goal: missional churches
FEBInternational, the mission arm of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada, is a church planting mission and has been from its inception over 40 years ago. Recently under the leadership of the current director, Richard Flemming, this goal has been clarified as planting missional churches. This [...]
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 March 4th, 2005 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Evangelism • Leadership • Missional • Missionary • Missions
Categories: Missions
The Fear of Dilution
I was recently talking with a colleague who voiced a concern about the expanding understanding of missions in some of our more missional churches. The missions committee at his church expressed the desire to incorporate local evangelistic and social efforts under the broad umbrella of “missions.” My [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2004 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Ethnic • Leadership • Missionary • Missions • Short Term Missions
Categories: Missions
Proactive Churches in Missions
It was only a decade ago that common wisdom for finding support for missionaries said, "Forget the churches and focus on individual contacts." Some missions organizations even encouraged their members to use the churches as a means for raising individual support. In this way they sometimes [...]
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 [...]
Posted on June 3rd, 2003 by Mark Naylor
Tags: Church • Cross-Cultural • Culture • Evangelism • Islam • Leadership • Missionary • Missions • Sindhi
Categories: Contextualization
Karen and I worked in evangelism and church planting for 10 years among the Sindhi Muslim people in Pakistan. Although our goal was to plant a church and a number of Sindhis became followers of Christ, we were not successful in establishing a "3-selfs" church (self-governing, self-supporting, self-propogating). Whenever we [...]