Five words that should impact our training ministries

If you are like me, you love a good book. Not only that, you probably enjoy recommending good books to others. Let me do just that for you today. Tim Elmore has written an excellent work called “Artificial Maturity”, a book dedicated to assisting educational leaders in understanding the challenges facing the current generation of [...]

Taking our students to Galilee

           My first opportunity to preach in big church came when I was seventeen years old. I sat with my pastor in his office shaking in an oversized sports coat while leafing through the message notes. My pastor looked at me with a father’s gaze and said, “Son, always preach what [...]

In Sync—2013 ACLAME Summit

AGWM Missionaries from the Latin America/ Caribbean region will be meeting together for the 2013 ACLAME Summit. The ACLAME Leadership Team invites you to attend! ACLAME, the Association of Caribbean and Latin American Missionary Educators, exists to connect and encourage LA/C missionaries as they disciple, teach, mentor and train others for ministry. The Summit brings [...]

Theological Education for the Indigenous

I have been asked on numerous occasions how one goes about training and equipping Indian leaders to lead the church. I would like to address that topic in this article. Upon our arrival in Ecuador in early 1992 we were tasked with the challenge of beginning the Assemblies of God work among the Quichua Indians [...]

Pastors’ Kids in Latin America: An Investigation into the Advantages and Disadvantages of the PK Experience

Introduction Pastors’ Kids (PKs) are some of the most visible, talented, and criticized young people in the church. Specialized ministry for PKs can help them overcome some of the challenges of being raised in the church spotlight, but it must be built on an accurate understanding of how the young people perceive their PK experience. [...]

SEC publishes a new style guide for term papers for all our Spanish-language LAC training ministries

All who have read Jenkins’ The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, know that the center of gravity of the Evangelical and Pentecostal world is no longer in the northern hemisphere, but has shifted to Latin America and Africa. This single fact is undoubtedly a huge (if not the main) driving force behind all [...]

ACLAME Summit 2013

What is a Theology of Childhood?

I would like to challenge my colleagues in Christian Education to help me ponder the question: “What is a Theology of Childhood?” This is undoubtedly the question that continued baffling the minds of the apostles after Jesus placed a child in their midst to resolve a theological argument they were having about who was the [...]

The Debacle of Lot’s Daughters: Consequences of a Collapsed Worldview

A worldview is more than just seeing the world. It is the conceptual framework through which one views the world, no matter where the person who holds it has traveled or lived. When people do not have a coherent worldview, they compartmentalize their lives and separate their spiritual life from other elements of life. Even ministers of the Gospel can find themselves living one way at church and another way at home. A unified, coherent worldview ought to guide our thinking about all things.