Serving Evangelical Ministry Leaders Around the World

    Mike O'Rear, Stan Nussbaum, board chairman Emery Sauve and Singapore associate Valerie Lim welcomed hundreds of evangelical leaders from around the world to the GMI booth at the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in May. All 600+ conference delegates were given a copy of the new PeoplesFile CD-ROM and introduced to whichever GMI products and services were most relevant to their ministries.

CHURCH AND MISSION MAPPING
    Top leaders of the Central Africa Missions Network (Cameroon), Himalayan Center for World Mission (Nepal), Korea Research Institute for Mission, and Association of Evangelicals of Africa (Ethics, Peace, and Justice Commission) asked for GMI software, data, and training to help them accomplish ministry mapping projects.

EVANGELICAL TRAINING IN INDIA
    Leaders of South Asia Institute for Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) asked us to explore ways we might collaborate in the training of tomorrow's Indian church leaders, including SAIACS hosting GMI seminars, GMI leading research classes, and providing GMI CD-ROMs for SAIACS students.

CHURCH SURVEY RESEARCH
    Leaders of the national Christian fellowship of a majority-Muslim country requested GMI's feedback and counsel on the design of an extensive research project surveying evangelical churches throughout their nation.

WEF INTERNET FORUM
    GMI was asked by WEF Associate Members-coming out of their day-long meeting in Kuala Lumpur-to set up an email and web forum to facilitate them staying in touch with each other in support of WEF ministry around the world.

CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN CAMBODIA
    A missionary in Cambodia expressed interest in GMI's experimental concept of a "Calendar of God's Greatness" as a means of evangelism and discipleship in a Buddhist setting. We are planning a workshop to help develop a "festival-centered" expression of Christianity. This makes sense in cultures where other religions such as Buddhism have long revolved around festivals rather than books.

ENGLISH TEACHERS IN CHINA
    A leader of the Jesus Film Project's English as a Foreign Language program ordered several hundred copies of Stan Nussbaum's booklet, The ABCs of American Culture. Her short-term English teachers are often asked to help their Chinese students understand America. The booklet equips them to do this and to naturally lead into discussion of their own life values.

BIBLE INSTITUTE IN MALAWI
    The CEO of a denomination and its Bible institute in Malawi wanted to discuss GMI's "Bible guides" concept designed to bridge the gap between pastoral training and effective preaching. The idea would involve a team writing project for each graduating class. The project will benefit lay pastors who never had the privilege of attending Bible school.

BIBLE LITERACY PROJECT
    Leaders of Literacy and Evangelism International discussed plans to produce a new edition of their basic Bible survey book. This tool is used worldwide in several languages as a literacy primer. The selection of the 35 stories in their survey may change at some point. Some of the material in GMI's "New Ways To Tell the Old Story" package may be relevant to the editorial decisions. Partnership on developing other materials is also a possibility.