Posts Tagged ‘Langham Preaching’
Thousands trained, tens of thousands resourced, countless transformed!
Langham trained nearly 10,000 pastors, distributed over 13,000 Bible-centred books to Majority World colleges, and supported 78 PhD students during the last financial year. Those are the latest stats from July 2019 to June 2020, showing God’s amazing work through Langham’s Preaching, Literature and Scholars programmes. The Covid-19 pandemic has adversely affected some planned activities,…
Read MoreBuilding Relationships
Our four Preaching Directors, leading teams across the various continents, share what has been happening through this time of pandemic. From Africa, with Femi Adeleye, as Director: “Every Monday, our Leadership Team meets on Zoom in order to support each other and to build our relationships. These have been times of refreshment. In recent weeks…
Read MoreOutcast and isolated
Phil Nicholson, a Preaching regional coordinator in East Asia, brings a word of encouragement from his experience of exclusion and isolation. “At the end of March, my wife, Irene, and I returned from a visit to our home in Australia to our home in Taiwan. Like all new arrivals, we were immediately put into 14…
Read MoreGrowing Deeper
Veena is a regional co-ordinator for Langham Preaching and she shared the following thoughts about our Langham Preaching programme: “I love the ethos of Langham Preaching. The emphasis on prayer, depending on the Lord Jesus, valuing all people with dignity and respect, and focussing not only on the skills but also on the character of…
Read MoreFirst Langham Preaching event for Indigenous Australian pastors
On 30 September 2019, a very special Langham Preaching training commenced in Cootamundra, NSW. This was the first ever Langham Preaching seminar held in Australia with Australian Indigenous pastors. Aboriginal pastor Rick Manton who ministers in Western Sydney, attended Level One Langham training at the Christian Leaders Training College in the Papua New Guinea Highlands…
Read MoreRelaunch in Jamaica
Mark Meynell, (Langham Preaching Director for Europe and Caribbean) recently spent a weekend in Kingston, Jamaica, along with Annett Brown, Preaching Co-ordinator. Jamaica was one of the very first countries to invite the embryonic Langham Preaching to work, way back in 2002. John Stott himself visited with Chris Wright and then the work became quite…
Read MoreHonoured by Alma mater
Langham Scholar, Elizabeth Mburu, was recently honoured by her alma mater, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS). Each year SEBTS honours five colleagues in various categories of scholarship. In 2008, Mburu became Southeastern’s first female Ph.D. graduate, leading the way for more women to follow in the path of pursuing advanced degrees in theological education. Keynote…
Read MoreFar reaching impact
Like a pebble tossed into a pond, it is inspiring to reflect on the impact that one book, one well delivered sermon, or one theologically trained leader can have, not just in an immediate sense, but rippling out in multiple and frequently surprising ways. As a crime scene investigator for the government in Brazil, Rafael…
Read More‘Remarkable growth’ in 10 years of Langham Preaching in Trinidad & Tobago
In September, around 150 people attended a special celebration to mark ten years of Langham Preaching events in Trinidad & Tobago. Mark Meynell, Langham Preaching Director for Europe and the Caribbean, said it was “very moving” to see members of perhaps 20 different denominations attend. He also said the day provided a “wonderful shop-window” for…
Read MoreLangham Preaching: ‘One church, with different faces, serving God’s Kingdom’
Langham Preaching exists to develop preachers to preach in a way that is biblical, systematic and sustained. Preachers gather for seminars, with a clear curriculum and philosophy and then they scatter into preaching clubs. Just participating in a seminar is unlikely to transform a person’s preaching, but practicing regularly (in preaching clubs) and passing on…
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