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	The Need for Leaders

Currently, in North America, it is estimated that there is one trained and competent Christian leader for every 1,300 people.

In Asia, that ratio is 1:600,000.

	A Strategic Focus...

"The pastors of Asia are at the front line of gospel advance, and Asian Access backs them up with encouragement and instruction. Investing in these pastors is as valuable as the pastorate is. As the pastors go, so go the churches. As the churches go, so goes a whole generation.

Asian Access is gently, wisely empowering the pastors of Asia with maximum impact for this generation and the next. My week there was one of the best investments I've ever made. What a privilege!"

Dr. Raymond Ortlund, Jr.

Pastor & Author

Nashville, TN

Leader Development

	Balanced Model

"Asian Access is a strategic outreach with a far-reaching vision
for the future. Their model
of training leaders while sharing
God's Word is one of the best
I've ever seen."

Steve Hayner

Steve Hayner
Former President,

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

Developing Pastors in Japan

Asian Access' work of leadership training, done through the Japan Church Growth Institute, has been recognized as one of the most creative and fruitful leadership training programs in Asia. The key to its effectiveness is the careful selection of twelve emerging leaders on an annual basis. These leaders are then invited to be a part of a class that meets four times a year for a week at a time over a two-year period. When the twelve meet together, they are working through an established curriculum that accelerates their growth as spiritual leaders, as well as organizational leaders. At their training sessions, they are resourced by leaders in and outside Japan.

In the course of the training, the leaders are able to become more aware of their distinct strengths individually, as well as the unique giftedness of their congregations. They are also given the skills to determine more precisely the needs of the communities and the context in which they live and minister. Upon that knowledge, they then develop skills to equip their congregation for effective service. Following that they articulate their long-term vision and then begin to develop strategies for growth and multiplication. The training program in Japan now uses a curriculum that has been developed entirely by Japanese, for Japanese, in Japanese.

Expansion to Other Asian Countries

As word about this work in Japan spread across Asia, interest grew. Asian Access began to explore how to help leaders in other places in Asia. Mongolia was the first country to indicate interest in adapting the Asian Access/Japan model to their context. The first class began training sessions in 1996.

Currently in Eight... in Twenty Soon

Soon other countries were added. Asian Access has established leader development programs in eight countries, thus far, with an ambitious vision for establishing work in 20 countries by 2010.