Missions Mentoring

MISSIONS MENTORING  

The face of missions in Europe is changing.  In Western Europe the pool of available missionary candidates is rapidly shrinking while in Eastern Europe the Church is bursting with new enthusiasm for missionary initiatives.  Both of these are challenges that leaders in missions face.  In Western Europe, the classic approach to missions is being challenged by larger local churches who question the validity of the mission agency.  For very different reasons, a similar question is being raised in Eastern Europe. What should be the future role of the mission agency?  Where are we heading and how can we best get there?   

Those who are involved, or interested, in missions might have a difficult time sorting through their personal calling in the midst of these sweeping changes.  Forum Missions Mentoring offers the opportunity to talk to an experienced leader who may have walked down a similar path.  We encourage any leader of current mission agencies and those who are considering missions as a calling to participate in Forum Missions Mentoring.

Lynn McAdam has been working with churches in Germany since 1985 under OC International, whose motto is "Equipping Nationals to Disciple the Nation" (Eph. 4:11-12). His speaking and writing talents have taken him to a variety of cross-cultural settings in Europe and Africa to help train church leaders on a multitude of topics. A broad sampling of these topics is available on the OCI Germany website (www.kompass-ev.net).  Lynn received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1979, and completed his Master of  Divinity at Trinity Divinity School (Deerfield, IL) in 1984. He is determined to complete his Doctor of Ministry degree in 2012 on the topic Sports Ministry in and through Local German Churches as a Model for Discipleship and Evangelism.  Lynn and his wife, Karen, have been blessed with five children (now all in their 20's), who have all enjoyed the benefits of their multi-cultural childhood and education growing up in Europe

Jay Pinney and wife Kathy arrived as missionaries in Quebec in 1987 and planted a French speaking church as part of a missionary team.  He is now the Quebec regional coordinator for Church Planting Canada, helping a number of denominations plant more churches. Jay teaches church planting principles in several venues in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. He also serves in a counseling ministry in Quebec focused on forgiveness and reconciliation and in a ministry mobilizing Canadian Christians to reach out to Muslims in Canada.  Jay has an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and did a DMin at Fuller Seminary focusing on leader health and developing coaching tools for church planters. He and Kathy have four children aged 22 to 15.

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