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Strategic Leadership Alliance
An International Center for Indigenous Christian Leadership
Rather than using the traditional strategy of sending missionaries to stay in one area for decades, (which often
has inhibited the rise of local leadership) our vision is to establish apostolic mission works in which the
overseas missionaries are stationed in one particular area only for a short duration — just enough to
evangelize, organize a church, and raise up local leaders.* Follow-up and continuing education should be
done strategically on visits and from long distance. Therefore, we see the need for two kinds of teams in
mission work:
1. Apostolic (Pioneering) Teams - These teams are to establish churches and training centers to raise up
leaders. From the beginning, their objective is to raise up financially self-sufficient, self-leading, self-
reproducing, and self-theologizing churches and centers of leadership training within two years. They do this
with a rapid transition to indigenous ownership in mind.
2. Pastoral (Care) Teams - During and after the pioneering stage, indigenous leaders take over. They will
nurture the churches and lead training centers to reproduce other churches and centers.
has inhibited the rise of local leadership) our vision is to establish apostolic mission works in which the
overseas missionaries are stationed in one particular area only for a short duration — just enough to
evangelize, organize a church, and raise up local leaders.* Follow-up and continuing education should be
done strategically on visits and from long distance. Therefore, we see the need for two kinds of teams in
mission work:
1. Apostolic (Pioneering) Teams - These teams are to establish churches and training centers to raise up
leaders. From the beginning, their objective is to raise up financially self-sufficient, self-leading, self-
reproducing, and self-theologizing churches and centers of leadership training within two years. They do this
with a rapid transition to indigenous ownership in mind.
2. Pastoral (Care) Teams - During and after the pioneering stage, indigenous leaders take over. They will
nurture the churches and lead training centers to reproduce other churches and centers.
*What is meant by “apostolic work” is itinerant pioneering ministry. The longest
time Paul had ever stayed at one place was two years and three months in
Ephesus. This kind of itinerant mission work would be most ideal in repressive
societies such as communist and Islamic countries. Had Paul stayed in one place
for decades, he probably would not have had the kind of successes he enjoyed in
raising up true leaders such as Timothy and Titus. No wonder God moved Paul
and other apostles (missionaries) around constantly!
time Paul had ever stayed at one place was two years and three months in
Ephesus. This kind of itinerant mission work would be most ideal in repressive
societies such as communist and Islamic countries. Had Paul stayed in one place
for decades, he probably would not have had the kind of successes he enjoyed in
raising up true leaders such as Timothy and Titus. No wonder God moved Paul
and other apostles (missionaries) around constantly!
