KAIROS SCHOOL OF MISSIONS: Randall

Tomorrow I am go to Sao Paulo to preach in the PM service and meet Missionary Caio whom I met in 94 in Dakar, Senegal. He will take me to the KAIROS Training Center where I will have the priviledge of teaching Christian Leadership to 18 candidate missionaries for about 23 hrs with both lectures and personal experiences . I will emphasize Servant Leadership as Jesus taught. I've tried to teach in this School of Missions since 1997 . Each year there are 20- 35 participants-- either new candidates or veterans. It is a very humbling experience to see them preparing for foreign missions service in very primitive circumstances. They first complete a 12 months correspondence course and those approved then come to this intensive training school with lectures by some 10-15 experienced visiting missionary teachers as well as on site pratical work assignments six days a week for twelve weeks. I am always so impacted by this experience. They are exceptional choice servants of God that I have the pleasure of touching and training for the Kingdom of God.

Randall : Missions Seminar Trip to Presidente Prudente

I got back home from the USA Friday about 11:00AM and left about an hour later for a 330 mi. minibus and car ride to a missions seminar in the city of Presidente Prudente, 200,000. The mother church ther has about 40 daughter churches. We got in about 90 min before we had to leave for our meeting. Another preacher and my self taught about 40 min. each Friday night. Then we got to go to a pastor's home for a meal that ended aout 11:30PM. I finally got into bed at about 12:20 am after being up for about 39 hrs since I started my day returning to Brazil on Thursday. We had great morning sessions with my colleague and I doing one 1hr classe each. Then we had lunch and hit the road for the 6-7hr return trip home. BTW, the Brazilian A/G already has some 1,000+ foreign missionaries supported by the national church. The tendencia is for these stats to radiacally increase in the near future.

Randall: Latin Am. AG Educators Summit

I just got back Friday from a quick trip to the USA and a Latin Am. AG Educators Summit in FT Lauderdale. It was a record meeting with 87 educators present. We did some great hot issue discussions and suggested solutions. I was on the How to maintain a proper balance between Academics and emphasis on full operation and dependence on the Holy Spirit. There was unananimity about the overwhelming urgency that that all of our many schools not only give precedence to the hands on Holy Spirit experience through teachers modeling the same but also planning for HS takeovers in the classes or chapel. It was a very challenging summit.