In this last of 3 introductory episodes we sit down with Paul Mac who along with his wife Linda worked among the Ata people in Papua New Guinea (See the Ata Story). We ask the question:

In the process of church planting, how do you go about building a ministry team that will replicate and disciple others to see that the work is passed on?

Simon:                  Hello

and welcome back to Lessons from the Field. Lesson from the Field is a podcast

where myself, Simon and Brad over there.

Brad:                     Hi

Simon.

Simon:                  Hey

Brad. We talk about cross-cultural missions. We interview people from the field

as the name implies, people who have worked in a cross-cultural context. We

also have contacts with church planting consultants, language learning

consultants, et cetera.

Brad:                     Bible

translators.

Simon:                  Bible

translators, that’s a good one. And so if you have any tough questions that you

want to ask, please by all means, you can visit our website,

@lessonsfromthefield.org and you’ll find a little contact page there. You can

send us a question, we will send out feelers, we’ll see who will be the best

contacts to answer that question for you and we’ll get them on and we’ll answer

that question for you. So please send in the questions.

Simon:                  Now,

this is episode three. We’ve been talking in the previous two episodes about

laying a foundation for our values and our principles and our goals in longterm

missions. We’ve talked about unreached people groups, the greatest resources

that are needed. How we just really need people to invest.

Brad:                     Yeah.

We want people.

Simon:                  Yeah.

We need people to invest their lives in seeing churches planted around the

world. And we’ve talked about how we need to have a longterm view and that we

have to have a picture of God’s goals, otherwise we won’t see any results. If

we don’t have any goals, we don’t have principles, we don’t have a strategy,

then we’re not going to see anything really happen.

Brad:                     Yeah.

Simon:                  And

so in this episode, we’re going to continue with that theme of laying the

foundation of the things we believe. We’ve got Paul [inaudible 00:02:19]. Paul

was a cross-cultural worker in Papua New Guinea with his wife for many years

and is now a church planting consultant. They travel all over the world. And so

we asked him the question, in the process of church planting, how do you go

about building a ministry team that will replicate and disciple others to see

that the work is passed on?

Paul:                      From

our own experience, my own experience of working with a group in Papua New

Guinea, I think we went convinced from the beginning that we weren’t there to

be … Even the term missionary