The 410 Bridge Partners with EQUIP Ministries-Newsletter Article

We are excited to announce a new partnership with EQUIP Ministries, an organization focused on equipping international Christian leaders to effectively serve the growing body of Christ around the world.

To be successful, The 410 Bridge model depends on strong leadership in The 410 Bridge communities. We are committed to training and developing these leaders, as well as, providing the tools necessary for them execute on their vision for sustainable transformation.

“EQUIP counts it a privilege to partner with The 410 Bridge. We look forward to coming alongside them as they transform villages in Kenya through leadership Biblical servant training,” said Tom Atema, Vice President of International Ministries & Strategic Parnerships at EQUIP.

EQUIP has committed to train the leaders from each of our 410 Bridge communities for the next 18 months. The first two-day training conference will take place in January 2008 in Nairobi at our quarterly Leadership Summit.

John Maxwell founded EQUIP as a nonprofit global mission ministry in 1996, with the vision to continually commit to developing leaders who possess great potential but have had limited opportunities for leadership development.

Tom Atema explains, “During John Maxwell’s time in local church ministry, he often visited missionaries and Christian leaders around the world. John would return from his travels grateful for these leaders’ passion for the gospel, but also frustrated that they had never had the opportunity to develop their leadership skills.”

It is John Maxwell’s conviction that in order for the Church to impact the next generation for Christ, there must be a return to Jesus Christ’s strategy of developing leaders. John often states that during Christ’s three and a half year public ministry, He spent the greatest amount of time training 12 leaders to impact the world for generations to come.

John Maxwell spent many years teaching leadership skills in North America. During a missions related trip in the mid-nineties, an international Christian leader encouraged John to turn some of his best leadership development materials into a format that would fit a global audience. From this challenge and the encouragment of others, EQUIP was launched.

Currently, EQUIP is in 110 countries, and is on target to be in every nation in the world by 2014. They hold an average of three and a half conferences per week, and have trained 1.7 million leaders. John Maxwell is convinced that if Christian leaders around the world are trained, resourced, and encouraged, there is no limit to what can be accomplished in fulfilling the Great Commission.