June 26, 2008
by Helen Turnbull Goody
26 June 2008
The National Evangelical Church of Beirut has deep roots in Lebanon, first established in 1848 and later creating the first evangelical Arabic-speaking congregation in the Middle East. It has a long history of serving as a center for publishing and other communication among Arab Christians. In June, the tradition [...]
June 13, 2008
by Chris Wright, International Director, Langham Partnership International
Kwame Bediako passed away this week. Langham Literature Director Pieter Kwant and I had the opportunity to visit him at the Global Church Tour in Grand Rapids in April, where he and his wife were spending some sabbatical time at Calvin College. Mark Hunt, Langham Partnership International’s [...]
June 5, 2008
On May 31, 2008, some 1300 people gathered in the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC) in Aberdeen, Scotland, for Souled Out, an organisation designed to engage Christians through dynamic, large-scale worship events. Chris Wright, International Director of the Langham Partnership International, spoke to attendees about the need to grow in Christian maturity.
The evening [...]
June 4, 2008
For the next few years, many scholars and editors will be dedicated to producing the South Asia Bible Commentary, an indispensable, culturally relevant, single-volume reference for pastors in South Asia. The commentary, sponsored in part by the Langham Literature programme, is due to launch in 2012 with translations due in Hindi in 2013, and later [...]
April 1, 2008
The success of the Africa Bible Commentary has stimulated plans to create similar single-volume commentaries by local scholars for other Majority World regions. Similar projects are already in process for Asia and the Middle East. This year, discussion was underway in Buenos Aires for development of the Contemporary Biblical Commentary (In Spanish: Comentário Bíblico [...]
April 1, 2008
by Ken Perez
President, John Stott Ministries
In early March, I attended a Langham Partnership International Senior Management Team (SMT) meeting, held at the Hookses, John Stott’s coastal hideaway in Wales. “Uncle John” himself had been there with Frances Whitehead, his secretary of more than 50 years, and other friends, the week before. A few days after [...]
April 1, 2008
by Jonathan Lamb, Director of Langham Preaching
The Tanzanian preaching movement continues to extend its reach, with nearly 320 delegates attending the training seminars in February and March this year, as well as the launch of a new initiative in the training of local facilitators.
Coordinated by Frank Luvanda and Tony Swanson, the programme not only included [...]
February 29, 2008
Thanks for your prayers and for passing the word to others to pray. The Lord Jesus greatly blessed our writer’s workshop, supported in part by Langham Literature. The sessions were well received, but most importantly, the participants’ faith and courage for work on the “Vanuatu Bible Commentary” (VBC) grew, even alongside our warnings that this [...]
February 28, 2008
Nigerian Pastors Receive Strong Biblical Training…
Safia Nana Zakana could not understand what had happened to Pastor James. She attended his church in Abuja, Nigeria, where he preached regularly. But during 2007 something changed. “I found he was different,” she told Chris Wright, who was leading the second Nigerian Langham Preaching seminar. “He used to [...]
February 28, 2008
By Langham Partnership International Director Chris Wright
That’s the vision that Matthew Michael has for himself. Matthew has just reached the end of his first year on the Ph.D. programme in Jos, Nigeria, as the first Langham scholar studying there. Matthew is a Langham scholar supported by John Stott Ministries (the U.S. [...]