Mentoring, modeling, and mandating Leadership influences on the perceptions and activities of church planters in West Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-409
Author(s):  
J. Stephen Jester
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Church Planting ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Vital Function ◽  
Church Planters

The rapid growth of Christianity in Africa in the last three decades is attributed to the aggressive activity of local church planters in their efforts to evangelize and missionize their contexts. Key factors represent important leadership influences serving as catalysts for the rapid increase in the number of new faith communities. Research data in the contexts of Anglophone Nigeria and Francophone Togo demonstrate that leaders serve a vital function in motivating church planters through mentoring, modeling, and mandating church-planting activity.

scholarly journals Personality Traits of Church Planters and Other Church Leaders in Europe (II)

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-308
Author(s):  
Annemarie Foppen ◽  
Stefan Paas ◽  
Joke van Saane
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Church Planting ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
The West ◽  
Church Planters ◽  
Protestant Churches

Abstract In search of a renewal of their mission in the secularized West, an increasing number of (Protestant) churches have embarked on the creation of new faith communities with a strong missionary purpose. This entrepreneurial approach of mission raises a number of questions, among which the issue of leadership is paramount. Currently, however, very little reliable empirical research has been done among faith entrepreneurs, or ‘church planters’, in Europe. In this article the personality dimensions of 215 church planters are compared with 307 ‘regular’ church leaders (pastors), based on the so-called ‘Big Five’ personality test. Independent samples t-tests showed that church planters are significantly more extravert, open to new experiences, and conscientious than ‘regular’ pastors, and significantly less neurotic, while scores on agreeableness are more or less similar. These results are discussed with a view to existing literature on church planting and entrepreneurship in the West.

scholarly journals Mission in Evolving Cultures: Constructively Managing Music-Related Conflict in Cross-Cultural Church Planting Contexts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robert Dunaetz
Keyword(s):  
Church Planting ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Church Planters ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Church Plants ◽  
The Church

The choice of music, an essential element of worship and church life, mustbe addressed in cross-cultural church planting contexts. As culturesevolve, church planters are faced with choices about musical styles thatmay lead to interpersonal conflicts within the church. The purpose of thisstudy is to empirically examine factors that may enable cross-culturalchurch planters to constructively manage music-related conflicts when theyarise. Members of church plants, like all people, have various goals whenentering into such conflicts. They are concerned about the content of theconflict (i.e., the musical style) and thus have content goals. They arealso concerned about social elements of the conflict (e.g., theirrelationships, their identity and values, and the process used to resolvethe conflict) and thus have social goals. The results of this study of 276evangelical Christians indicate that achieving both content goals andsocial goals contributes to overall satisfaction across various conflictoutcomes. Moreover, the evidence indicates that achieving only a socialgoal leads to greater satisfaction with the conflict outcome than achievingonly the content goal in music related conflict. This implies that churchplanters, when faced with music-related conflict, should strive to meet thegospel-congruent social goals of people with whom they are in conflict inorder to maximize satisfaction with the conflict outcome._______________________David R. Dunaetz, PhDAssistant Professor, Leadership and Organizational PsychologyAzusa Pacific University

scholarly journals A Case Study of Church Growth by Church Planting in Germany: Are They Connected?

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Stefan Paas
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Church Planting ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
New Churches ◽  
The Relationship

It is widely believed that the planting of new churches is a cause of church growth, regardless of culture or context. However, surprisingly little reliable and relevant data are presented to support this claim. In this article recent membership data of the Bund Freier evangelischer Gemeinden (Association of Free Evangelical Congregations) in Germany is explored to examine the relationship between church planting and church growth. The data show that there is indeed a positive correlation, but since there is also a clear correlation between rapid growth and decline, the evidence should be treated with care.

scholarly journals DataCite: Lessons Learned on Persistent Identifiers for Research Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Rueda ◽  
Martin Fenner ◽  
Patricia Cruse
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Data Reuse ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Data Publication ◽  
Data Citation ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Insight Into

Data are the infrastructure of science and they serve as the groundwork for scientific pursuits. Data publication has emerged as a game-changing breakthrough in scholarly communication. Data form the outputs of research but also are a gateway to new hypotheses, enabling new scientific insights and driving innovation. And yet stakeholders across the scholarly ecosystem, including practitioners, institutions, and funders of scientific research are increasingly concerned about the lack of sharing and reuse of research data. Across disciplines and countries, researchers, funders, and publishers are pushing for a more effective research environment, minimizing the duplication of work and maximizing the interaction between researchers. Availability, discoverability, and reproducibility of research outputs are key factors to support data reuse and make possible this new environment of highly collaborative research. An interoperable e-infrastructure is imperative in order to develop new platforms and services for to data publication and reuse. DataCite has been working to establish and promote methods to locate, identify and share information about research data. Along with service development, DataCite supports and advocates for the standards behind persistent identifiers (in particular DOIs, Digital Object Identifiers) for data and other research outputs. Persistent identifiers allow different platforms to exchange information consistently and unambiguously and provide a reliable way to track citations and reuse. Because of this, data publication can become a reality from a technical standpoint, but the adoption of data publication and data citation as a practice by researchers is still in its early stages. Since 2009, DataCite has been developing a series of tools and services to foster the adoption of data publication and citation among the research community. Through the years, DataCite has worked in a close collaboration with interdisciplinary partners on these issues and we have gained insight into the development of data publication workflows. This paper describes the types of different actions and the lessons learned by DataCite. 

scholarly journals Understanding key factors controlling the duration of river flow intermittency: Case of Burkina Faso in West Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 100908
Author(s):  
Axel Patindé Belemtougri ◽  
Agnès Ducharne ◽  
Fowe Tazen ◽  
Ludovic Oudin ◽  
Harouna Karambiri
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Flow Intermittency

scholarly journals Die Fresh Expression beweging en die Hervormde Kerk – ’n nuwe manier van kerkwees?

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
André G. Ungerer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Church Planting ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Train The Trainer ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The People ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Task Team ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Established Church

The Fresh Expression movement is well-known in Great Britain and other Western countries like the USA, Australia and lately South Africa. During 2013, a task team launched two pilot courses in Cape Town and George that marked the beginning of Fresh Expressions in South Africa. The Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa – NRCA) exposed 125 of her pastors to the Fresh Expression movement by means of the annual continuous theological training program during 2015. Three of the pastors underwent the ‘Train the Trainer’ course and are currently involved in the presentation of courses in the Pretoria region. The Fresh Expression movement hold the possibility for pioneers in church planting to reach the people who have no ties with the established church. By entering a certain context, faith communities are established by means of listening to the people in their context, serving them in a loving way, creating a community, evangelise and discipling them and starting their own unique way of worshipping. The new faith communities are not in competition with the established church but it is rather a question of a mixed economy where different types of church exists alongside each other in mutual respect and support. This study tries to establish basic criteria to distinguish a Fresh Expression from random missional outreaches by a congregation. Two potential Fresh Expressions in the NRCA were evaluated by the set criteria.

scholarly journals Research Data Management and Data Sharing among Research Scholars of Life Sciences and Social Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (06) ◽  
pp. 290-299
Author(s):  
Naushad Ali PM ◽  
Sidra Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Share Data

This study investigates perception of research scholars towards research data management and sharing. A survey was conducted among research scholars from Faculty of Life Sciences and Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). In total, 352 participants filled out the questionnaire. The study shows that research scholars ofFaculty of Social Sciences are more willing to share their research data as compared to Research Scholars of Life Sciences. Contributing to scientific progress and increasing research citations and visibility were the key factors that motivated researchers to share data. However, confidentiality and data misuse were the main concerns among those who were unwilling to share. Finally, some recommendations to improve the of data management and sharing practices are presented.

Exorcism And Conversion To African Pentecostalism

Exchange ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Anderson
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
Christian Discourse

AbstractThe rapid growth of Pentecostal forms of Christianity in Africa in recent years can partly be attributed to the prevalent practice of exorcism or 'deliverance' that characterises it. This essay considers the phenomenon from the perspective of the African popular religious spirit world, where spirits and 'demons' abound. It begins with a discussion of the 'translation' of pre-modern African religious ideas into Christian discourse, and gives several case studies from West Africa and especially from Southern Africa. It concludes that Pentecostal Christianity with its offer of 'deliverance' from evil powers fulfils a felt need and therefore produces a 'product' that is attractive in Africa's religious market, resulting in multiple conversions.

Developments in East Asia and their implications for the UK and Europe

1998 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 64-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Barrell ◽  
Nigel Pain
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Property Markets

The turmoil in East Asia over the last six months has led to major realignments of many currencies in the region, whilst domestic equity and property markets have collapsed. Though each of the directly affected economies had some unique problems, all shared the key factors behind the collapse, an over-rapid growth in domestic investment, declining external competitiveness and inefficient and loosely regulated financial institutions.

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