CATALYSE - GLOBAL CPM PRIORITY
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In this article, we interview
In this article, we interview
Pastor Willie and Ms Cara Cheong from our HIM Missions Dept on the CATALYSE Initiative From a largely Asian to a Global church planting movement.
1. Welcome to Advance. Could you please explain a little bit about the priority From a Largely Asian to a Global Church Planting Movement.*
Most churches in our family of churches had our origin in the Asia region. With a humble beginning, we experienced valuable experiences and success in pioneering and nurturing churches with mostly Asian cultural backgrounds.
We aspire to sow the Gospel globally, which include regions outside Asia. We are aware of the variety of worldview orientations, cultural attributes and barriers to the Gospel in these different contexts. So in this Priority we would like to bridge these differences and provide effective cross-cultural church-planting models to help our family of churches to advance in our global missions venture.
2. Describe briefly what your Initiative team has been working in the first half of 2011.
Since the launch of CATALYSE in Jan. 2011, we have been discussing with a team of leaders who reside or had experience in ministering across the continents of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. We have spelt out the expectations, projects and milestones that we will work together over the span of the next five years from 2011-2015.
CATALYSE surely has tremendous potential to transform our entire organisation. Transformation is a process that consists of a series of changes with proper alignment of us in God’s purpose.
5. How can (we) in HIM pray for and support CATALYSE?
Do pray that God will lead all our CATALYSE leaders toward where He has intended for us and to identify the necessary alterations for our organisation.
Approach CATALYSE with an open heart and mind. This will be a great support to all those involved in it.
*This Priority is the only Priority with one Initiative.
CATALYSE webpage http://byhim.org/component/content/category/38?layout=blog
Pastor Willie Tan serves as Initiative leader. Ms Cara Cheong is the deputy leader.
For more information write to us at
spt@byhim.org
HIM Corporate Communications
Most churches in our family of churches had our origin in the Asia region. With a humble beginning, we experienced valuable experiences and success in pioneering and nurturing churches with mostly Asian cultural backgrounds.
We aspire to sow the Gospel globally, which include regions outside Asia. We are aware of the variety of worldview orientations, cultural attributes and barriers to the Gospel in these different contexts. So in this Priority we would like to bridge these differences and provide effective cross-cultural church-planting models to help our family of churches to advance in our global missions venture.
2. Describe briefly what your Initiative team has been working in the first half of 2011.
Since the launch of CATALYSE in Jan. 2011, we have been discussing with a team of leaders who reside or had experience in ministering across the continents of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. We have spelt out the expectations, projects and milestones that we will work together over the span of the next five years from 2011-2015.
In the past six months our team has focused on Cross-cultural Competencies with the ultimate aim of coming out with an assessment tool to assess potential church planters. We have been studying specialist resources. We worked closely with our church planting returnees from South America to help with the skeletal outline of Cross-cultural Competencies. This will be used and further developed by our sub-teams from other cultural contexts.
3. What do you hope to see by the end of 2015?
At the end of 2015, we hope to have developed the various tools and resources. It will be a rewarding experience when the completed projects can serve as bridges to empower our family churches to launch church planting teams into cross-cultural harvest fields.
We hope that the tools and resources will then be improved after being used and evaluated, so that future versions can benefit the next generation of church planters desiring to launch out.
4. How do you feel about CATALYSE?
We see the potential of CATALYSE to enable and empower our entire organisation. CATALYSE can introduce positive changes when integrated into the system of our organisation. Changes are not always easy. We need to be willing to lay off practices and habits that may be obstacles to accomplish our mission.
3. What do you hope to see by the end of 2015?
At the end of 2015, we hope to have developed the various tools and resources. It will be a rewarding experience when the completed projects can serve as bridges to empower our family churches to launch church planting teams into cross-cultural harvest fields.
We hope that the tools and resources will then be improved after being used and evaluated, so that future versions can benefit the next generation of church planters desiring to launch out.
4. How do you feel about CATALYSE?
We see the potential of CATALYSE to enable and empower our entire organisation. CATALYSE can introduce positive changes when integrated into the system of our organisation. Changes are not always easy. We need to be willing to lay off practices and habits that may be obstacles to accomplish our mission.
CATALYSE surely has tremendous potential to transform our entire organisation. Transformation is a process that consists of a series of changes with proper alignment of us in God’s purpose.
5. How can (we) in HIM pray for and support CATALYSE?
Do pray that God will lead all our CATALYSE leaders toward where He has intended for us and to identify the necessary alterations for our organisation.
Approach CATALYSE with an open heart and mind. This will be a great support to all those involved in it.
*This Priority is the only Priority with one Initiative.
CATALYSE webpage http://byhim.org/component/content/category/38?layout=blog
Pastor Willie Tan serves as Initiative leader. Ms Cara Cheong is the deputy leader.
For more information write to us at
spt@byhim.org
HIM Corporate Communications
