by Robert M. Reach | Sep 12, 2023 | Impacting Eternity
Pastors and missionary leaders often ask me some form of the following question: How do I move the people I lead into a movement strategy? Recently, a pastor of a relatively successful church of 350 people in North America asked me this question. My response was not...
by Robert M. Reach | Jun 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nineteenth-century missionary leader Henry Venn developed what is known as the “three-self formula.” Drawing from his own experience, he concluded that most missionaries were far too dependent upon resources from the West. Accordingly, national Christians in Africa,...
by Robert M. Reach | Jun 18, 2023 | Impacting Eternity
Learning Communities (LC) are a central element to long-term movement growth. These venues train through modeling. Leaders learn through concrete experience in small groups of peers and then replicate what they have learned with others. They usually meet once or twice...
by Robert M. Reach | Jun 18, 2023 | Impacting Eternity
We need to rethink how leadership works in a movement that has sustaining power to endure beyond four generations. We must think beyond building a movement around a centralized mindset. Therefore, Impacting Eternity highlights a key leadership practice that results in...
by Robert M. Reach | Jun 18, 2023 | Impacting Eternity
Victor John helped initiate one of the largest and earliest movements in India. He shared with me how over eleven million people were baptized through his networks since he began this work in the late 1990s. He expressed a sense of awe and wonder about how God has...