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Cross-Cultural Challenges theadvocate.tv APRIL 2017 IN CONVERSATION Karl Faase talks about a series he hosted, “I believe the Church will have to do some hard thinking Jesus the Game Changer, that explores how the life and teaching and cleaning up in these critical days.” of Jesus changed the world and why it matters. PAGE 12 >> HAROLD LAW-DAVIS PAGE 13>> 4 Heroes in Africa Global Interaction families changing the lives of the Yawo people >> 6 Next generations Baptist Next Generations will release a series of video testimonies >> Photo: Global Interaction Partnership with WA Baptists helps Sally Pim share the love of Jesus with the Yawo people of Mozambique. Cross-cultural challenges 8 Digital help A range of apps and programs that may be useful people to partner through prayer, “The most exciting thing for believers >> giving and going. [about my placement] is that “I stood in front of a church I had never been to Global Interaction Learning God didn’t bring this about before, palms sweaty and knees shaking, and felt and Development Consultant through just one church, or one overwhelmed,” said Sally Pim of Riverton Baptist Susan Campbell said the reality person. There is a whole team of cross-cultural mission is that of people and churches that Community Church as she remembered her first despite careful stewardship and have stepped into this vision,” Committed to experience of partnership development. sacrifice, it is expensive. Sally said. “Inviting people to partner with “I might be physically being honest, For the last year, Sally has been Sally’s first experience was finances can be very daunting.” getting on that plane on my transparent travelling around Western repeated as she has shared in “The thought of partnership own, but through my faithful Australian Baptist churches churches, leaving her with a development can be a real supporters, the family at Global and above sharing her story of call and deeper appreciation of what deterrent for people who consider Interaction and the community commitment to serve with the it means to be part of the cross-cultural mission. Yet those of the church, I don’t feel alone reproach. Global Interaction team among community of Baptist churches who go through the journey often at all”. the Yawo people of Mozambique. in Western Australia. reflect on it with gratitude and Cross-cultural worker “I felt nervous in front of Partnership development is joy,” Susan said. Ben Good from Gosnells BAPTIST CHURCHES people I had never met, but I a critical phase in the journey Global Interaction prepares Baptist Church has had a WESTERN AUSTRALIA didn’t have to be. As I started of cross-cultural workers. It cross-cultural workers with similar experience. speaking I noticed the nods and entails sharing with people in all a one-week conference and “The provision of God and the smiles of encouragement.” kinds of settings – small groups, online learning that addresses the generosity of His people, “After the service, people conferences, over cups of coffee, the theology of partnership time and time again, astounds came up to me to share their own services, next generation events development, practical ideas and me. Just when you think that experiences of cross-cultural – with a number of aims in mind: stories from others. the task is impossible, there is mission, and to encourage me in communicating God’s heart for The state team is also God and His Church stepping my journey. The nervousness was mission; encouraging people in available, week in and week out, to up to the plate,” he said. replaced by a sense of belonging.” their life with Jesus and inviting provide support. 2 my view APRIL 2017 Heavy distractions for ministry As a young pastor some 30 years ago, I was approached by an insurance agent and 5. Take on new challenges so asked to take out a life cover policy. I filled out all the forms and was eventually told that you push your limits. that I wasn’t a good applicant. 6. Keep fit, run hard, walk far. 7. Attend new courses and don’t become Their internal assessment high-risk for mental health illness Here are some of my personal mentally lazy. considered pastors were in due to the rigours of church tips for healthy distractions that 8. Share those high- a high-risk occupation and I life, then I needed to build some have kept me sane and staying in maintenance ‘saints’ with was benchmarked along with counter measures into my life. ministry over the years: others so you don’t have to deep-sea divers for having an Depression is blindsiding 1. Build a ministry that doesn’t carry the entire emotional emotional breakdown. many individuals in the helping revolve around you. pastoral burden. At first it seemed funny to professions. This is due to the 2. Truly switch off from work 9. Look for achievements that me, but it became a sobering complexities of constant demands without feeling guilty. give you satisfaction. Dr John Crosby experience because it opened my in emotionally highly charged 3. Work hard in ministry but 10. Regularly complete Dr John Crosby is the Lead eyes to the emotional demands of people issues within churches, learn to hang up the pastor’s something practical, build Pastor at Morley Baptist Church ministry and the unseen pitfalls health services and communities. cloak once home and enjoy or fix it. and Army Staff Chaplain. that are there. Obviously the So as a pastor, I had to learn family. 11. Try to find an activity insurer had received too many resilience and perhaps be like a 4. Being a workaholic or that is different to church claims from stressed and anxious tennis ball that always bounces back ‘ministry-aholic’ is culture and when you find pastors. If they rated pastors as even though I was jaded at times. simply wrong. it, turn the mobile off. On deadlines … I recently received a reminder that today is the deadline for my monthly occasion’s dead line (as submission to this award-winning newspaper. While grateful for the memory two separated terms) has jog, it did get my mind thinking about the term ‘deadline’. referred to a line of social etiquette beyond which one cannot (or rather should The dictionary definition is If you’re fascinated by close to the prison fence or gate. not) stray. While you might simple enough. A deadline history or like to excel at Trivial Any closer, and you were likely to get away with belching in is the latest time or date by Pursuit, the origin of the term become target practice. In short, the company of some, for which something should be is interesting. Apparently it first originally a deadline was literally others it would cross the completed. appeared in 1864 during the that. Stray beyond that line, and dead line. If your stomach How serious is a deadline? American Civil War and referred you’re dead. is unsettled, it is most Well, presumably the ‘dead’ is to a line drawn around a prison There are other uses important to know who fits the giveaway. Don’t do this, beyond which prisoners were for deadlines. Those in the into which category. Dr Brian Harris and you are no longer living. liable to be shot. I guess it’s not printing industry will tell you So what are your Dr Brian Harris is the Principal Or perhaps it is just your too hard to understand. that a dead-line (note that deadlines? Of course the line of Vose Seminary and Pastor at project that will expire. For this Anxious to ensure that in this use it has a hyphen) of death is a pretty decisive Large for the Carey Group. newspaper, I think it is your prison inmates did not become was a line on a printing press one. Perhaps there are things project that dies, but I don’t ‘out mates’, the authorities would beyond which the text would you must do before that line plan to put it to the test. let potential escapees get only so not print properly. And on rare is reached … God is closer than you think We all have our favourite Old Testament or New Testament books – just as we Closer than you Think, have our favourite verses in the Bible. A favourite concept in the Gospel of John John Ortberg writes about how is the word ‘believe’. we can discover and enjoy God in day-to-day living as we respond to God and see ‘Believe’ appears at least 98 times. opponents. At any rate, once they like receiving a gift, drinking God working in our lives as He It always occurs in the verb form, had met Him, they could not refreshing water, entering by a refreshes us in our relationship never the noun form (‘believe’ remain neutral. door into a sheepfold. The need with Him. When I have been never ‘belief’). This continually Along with the word ‘believe’, is met, the thirst is quenched, the dealing with the difficulties of gives the impression of action, of John employs a number of hunger is satisfied. certain situations in church life, something happening. synonyms to make his meaning In the midst of ‘all of this’ I have had to just take a step back John is teaching the meaning clear. Some of these are ‘receive’ about ‘believe’, I am able to be and realise that ‘God is closer of believing in Jesus not so much [1:12], ‘drink’ [4:14], ‘come’ [6:35], ‘refreshed’ by the daily things I than I think’ and that He has Peter Christofides by definition as by illustration.
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