Stories

What a privilege it was to sit down with Jerry White to talk about shepherd leadership. As President Emeritus and Chairman Emeritus of the U.S. Board of Directors of The Navigators, Doug heard him speak at a men’s breakfast and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to hear this retired United States Air Force Major General …

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  Simon Rattray of Brisbane, Australia, goes into places that most Christians wouldn’t even consider – and he finds it a blessing and believes it to be his calling.  He and the Project 1:14 team, including his wife, Allison, care for isolated and vulnerable families and communities who have been touched by religious persecution, crisis, war, and …

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The shepherding aspect of volunteer roles such as school board member are often overlooked, but as those leading school districts of every size and for every age group have learned over the past 15+ months, a pandemic changes everything.  In this Shepherd-in-Action interview, Cindy Brakeman, a retired secondary education teacher and member of a large school district …

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Wahid and Laila Wahba are Egyptian Christ-followers who believe deeply in training Christian leaders in the Middle East. So much so that they launched the Middle East Training Leadership Institute (MELTI) based in Cairo, Egypt for the purpose of doing exactly that. Both are willing to risk their lives for the mission they’ve been called …

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