The Church-Planting Taskforce, led by GBIM’s David Guiles, is working in three languages to craft a succinct forward-looking declaration on church planting for the worldwide Grace Brethren movement. ——————————– L’atelier d’implantation d’Eglise, mené par David Guiles de GBIM travail dans trois langues au projet d’une declaration pour l’implantation d’Eglise autour du monde pour les Eglises […]
August 2008
The Leadership Training Taskforce, led by Dr. Francois Ngoumape of the Central African Republic, is working to craft a forward-looking statement to help all Grace Brethren worldwide training and leadership efforts in the future. ———————————- L’atelier de la formation des responsables, mené par Dr. François Ngoumapé De République Centre Africaine travail sur le projet d’une
Thursday at CHARIS Turns to Task Force Activity
The CHARIS leadership group, which has planned and is implementing the multi-national Grace Brethren leadership meetings in Bad Homburg, Germany, meets each morning early to rehearse the agenda for the day, to discuss what adjustments need to be made, and to pray for the day’s activities. Rainer Ehmann of Germany is the overall coordinator for
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Paul Klawitter of Dijon, France, the European regional director for Grace Brethren International Missions, led a singing and worship time Thursday morning to begin the day’s activities for CHARIS, the Grace Brethren leadership meeting currently underway in Germany. ——————————Paul Klawitter de Dijon, France, le directeur regional pour l’Europe pour GBIM a mené les chants et
Each day’s agenda is being led by a different moderator. Thursday’s moderator is Jorge Nunez (pictured), a businessman and church planter from Argentina. Wednesday’s moderator was Keith Shearer from the USA, and Friday’s sessions will be led by Florent Varak of France. The CHARIS gathering took quite a different turn as of Thursday. Three reports
Thursday morning was group photo time, with all the delegates and country representatives gathering outside the hostel in Bad Homburg, Germany, for a group photo. Double-click on photo to enlarge for viewing. ————————— Jeudi matin était le moment de prendre une photo de groupe, avec tous les délégués et les représentants du monde à l’exterieur
Wednesday at CHARIS is Day of Reports
The Wednesday presentations at the CHARIS multi-national gathering of Grace Brethren church leaders taking place outside Frankfurt, Germany, featured a number of reports. Early in the day Samuel Dadje and others from Chad highlighted issues in church planting. Then Francois Ngoumape from the Central African Republic made a presentation on leadership training. After lunch God’s
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Following the presentation of churches and Grace Brethren work in each part of the world, a prayer time is held for the people and churches just highlighted. Here a prayer circle is formed and French pastor Florent Varak (center, gray shirt) prays for the churches and God’s work among Grace Brethren churches in Latin America.
Cups from Germany, change purses from Mexico, pens from Guatemala, keychains from Argentina–as Grace Brethren church leaders from around the world present the work of churches in their regions, it’s not uncommon for them to distribute mementos to the CHARIS delegates. The focus of the Wednesday afternoon sessions was Latin America. ———————– Un tasse allemande,
A talented corps of multilingual young adults have been serving as translators for sessions, breaks, meals, and hallway conversations at the CHARIS gathering in Germany. With about 17 countries represented, all sessions are translated into English, French, and Spanish and occasionally heard are other languages such as Portuguese, Sango, Tagalog, and more. This is part