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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
BMS World Mission: A Case Study toward Polycentric Mission Leadership
Rev. Joseph W. Handley, Jr., Ph.D. and Rev. Kang-San Tan, D.Min. Ph.D. The British Baptist Missionary Society (BMS World Mission) holds a treasured place in the history of the modern mission movement. It was William Carey, often called the father of modern missions, who catalyzed the work with his famous An Enquiry into the Obligation […]
A Case Study in Polycentric Mission [AR1] Asian Access – SIM: Strategic Partnership[AR2]
Robert Adair From 2011 to now, Asian Access missionaries (A2m) have made two transitions that have placed them under polycentric governance. This case study will attempt to explain the context and challenges of the current structure. Background In 2011, A2 formed a strategic partnership with SIM to deploy missionaries to Japan. SIM provided operational support […]
Polycentric Leadership for Kingdom Movements (Part I)
Joseph W. Handley, Jr. 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 years, the terminology has changed but in essence Garrison’s definition captures […]
