Early in the New Year, the preaching movement in Myanmar continues to develop in fellowship with national church leaders and the UK mission agency Crosslinks. Spanning two weeks, various levels of training will take place, through the support of several Langham facilitators, including Andy Lines (General Secretary of Crosslinks in the UK), Jenny Brown from All Souls in London, Kang San Tan and Chris Wright.
The next stage of training picks up again in Albania in early February, with a strong local coordinating team and the help of two Langham faciliators, Rodney Wood and Mark Meynell.
At the same time, the Langham Preaching programme in Nigeria will be launched, with 15 key pastors and preachers selected from each of the main denominations – a hoped-for conference of some 100 to 150 participants meeting in Jos for a week of teaching and training. Chris Wright will be the main facilitator, working in fellowship with national leaders, including representatives of the Langham Regional Council for West Africa.
Then later in February a new programme will be launched in Zagreb, Croatia, hosted by Langham Scholar Ksenija Magda and her husband Toma. Jonathan Lamb will join with local pastors and preachers for the first training event, which hopefully will also serve some participants from neighbouring countries too.
After the 300% growth in the Tanzanian programme in 2006, plans for 2007 include two separate events in Tanzania in February and March, one seminar for the north of the country, and one for the south. Langham facilitators Rodney Wood and Simon Vibert will be joined by James Poole, who is working with AICMAR in Kenya, and they will join forces with the local team, ably led by Frnak Luvanda, a Tanzanian pastor and teacher, and Tony Swanson, AIM missionary.
And then ….
Programmes will take place in Belize (April), Pakistan (April and May), Poland (May), Jamaica (May), Ghana (June), Hungary (European pastors network in June), Lebanon (July) and the Philippines (July).
We would welcome prayer for the local coordinating teams, Langham Preaching facilitators, safety for the hundreds of participants, good communications and organisation, effective training, and the strengthening of pastors and preachers in their ministry.
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