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A Pastor’s Training Course Experience

A Chinese pastor shares his experience of participating in a leadership training program.

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The Right Leader Fits the Role

Leading an executive team is like working a living, jigsaw puzzle. You, your executives and your roles constantly change and grow in light of your vision and marketplace realities. Our organization has discovered a selection and development model of qualities and behavioral traits required of leaders for different executive roles that we call "The Mastery of Leadership" model. Check it out yourself. See how the right leader fits the role.

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Servanthood and Mentoring

A Personal Observation

What does it mean to serve and to mentor? What are the crucial elements of each?

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China in Transition

Transition to What?

Based on papers presented at the China 2020: Future Scenarios conference, the author identifies four scenarios and some key signposts that may indicate the direction China is heading in the future.

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The Coming Third Anti-Christian Movement?

Learning from Modern Chinese Intellectuals

China has always been an anomaly. She is open to the gospel, she is resistant to the gospel. She is hungry for things modern and Western, she is stubbornly proud of things traditional and Chinese. How do we make sense of all this? More importantly, how do we gauge the mindset of China's intellectuals and leaders? How do they view Christianity as a religion, as a Western cultural construct, as a world and life view?

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Globalization and the Impact of Short-Term Teams for 2008

As the world becomes increasingly interdependent, the opportunity for short-term teams working in China increases. What impact will short-term teams have in 2008 when China is highlighted on the world's stage?

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Globalization and House Churches in China

As globalization has affected the country of China, it has also affected China's house churches. The effects have been both positive and negative and will continue to impact the house churches well into the future.

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Mentoring

Coming Alongside

Mentoring is a key element in transformational leadership development and is greatly needed in China as well.

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Leadership Care

True leadership development focuses on the leaders as people. The health and growth of the real person produces sound leadership.

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Evaluating Leadership Development

What is needed to effectively evaluate the development of church leaders in China? To understand what is needed, the meanings of evaluation, leadership, and development are each discussed.