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Joseph Handley / 1-September-2022

The World Is Changing Fast. Are You Ready For A Seismic Shift in the Way You Lead?

Toward A New Model for Global Leadership The world went through some monumental shifts during my tenure in mission leadership. While many had been talking about partnership and collaboration, as well as paternalism and colonialism for many years, it was during early in my 30 years of ministry that major changes were burgeoning in many […]

Polycentric Leadership / 2-January-2023

Polycentric Leadership for DAO’s: Web3 Bootstrapping Strategies – Part 2

by Sangeet Paul Choudary For those of us who grew up with Web2, Web3 bootstrapping is – as the Thais would put it – same same but different. In last week’s newsletter, I expanded on two of key tools in our web3 bootstrapping arsenal. The first – the shift from creator toolsets to composable environments […]

Polycentric Leadership / 23-December-2022

A Polycentric Alternative to Hierarchical Church Leadership

Bib Wilson’s dissertation.

Polycentric Leadership / 25-October-2022

What Is Polycentric Mission Leadership?

WHAT THE TRINITY, SCRIPTURE, AND ORCHESTRAS CAN TEACH US ABOUT DECISION-MAKING IN THE CHURCH Joseph Handley and Micaela Braithwaite | 20 Sep 2022 As Jesus continues to build his Body, the global church, so the challenges as well as opportunities of diversity, ethnicity, cultures, communication, and collaboration become more apparent. As a result, mission leaders […]

Polycentric Leadership / 22-October-2022

World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission (Polycentrism): Our Missions Future.

Originally posted from: https://weamc.global/gc23registration/  In 2019 we decided on the theme of “Our Missions Future” not knowing what 2020 was going to bring. We then wondered about focusing on a sub-theme of “missions beyond the pandemic” but in light of other crises, that quickly seemed too restrictive. As time and conversations have gone the full theme […]

Polycentric Leadership / 22-October-2022

Book Review – Missional International Church Network

Posted here from https://micn.org/polycentric-mission-leadership/ Hot from the Print shop! This book was recently released by REGNUM (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, UK) in the Summer of 2022.  The author is Rev. Dr. Joseph Handley Jr. He is the President of Asian Access and based in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Handley is also serving as the Catalyst for Leadership […]

Polycentric Leadership / 26-August-2022

Difficult Terms – ‘Polycentric’ by Joe Handley

In this new series of short videos from the Lausanne Movement, we define key missional terms in an easy-to-understand way. Our first video features Joseph Handley, Lausanne catalyst for leadership development, explaining the word ‘polycentric’. More Info Published here with permission from the Laussanne Movement.

Joseph Handley / 25-August-2022

Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part II)

Joseph W. Handley, Jr. Published in Global Missiology, www.globalmissiology.org, April 2022 Abstract One of the simplest definitions for a Kingdom Movement is that proposed by David Garrison in looking at Church Planting Movements: “a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps through a people group or population segment” (Garrison 2004, 21). Over the […]

Joseph Handley / 19-August-2022

Endorsements

To get a sense of what others are saying, here are those endorsing the new book: Polycentric mission leadership is becoming essential for any church or mission organization that wants to work respectfully and fruitfully within the Global Church. This book highlights and unpacks the scholarly thinking that is emerging in this field. It is […]

Polycentric Leadership / 21-July-2022

Decentralising leadership: from monolithic to modular and polycentric

Daniel Ospina Original article at RnDAO Why talk about leadership? Let’s bring it back to the people. If you’ve ever been in an executive position, been an influential DAO member, or founded a new organisation, you’ll likely viscerally know the weight of responsibility. There can be so much work, so much uncertainty and yet such […]

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  • Polycentric Leadership for DAO’s: Web3 Bootstrapping Strategies – Part 2
  • A Polycentric Alternative to Hierarchical Church Leadership
  • What Is Polycentric Mission Leadership?
  • World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission (Polycentrism): Our Missions Future.
  • Book Review – Missional International Church Network
  • The World Is Changing Fast. Are You Ready For A Seismic Shift in the Way You Lead?
  • Difficult Terms – ‘Polycentric’ by Joe Handley
  • Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part II)
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  • Decentralising leadership: from monolithic to modular and polycentric

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