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Elevate: Opportunities to Sharpen Your Skills as a GTN Trainer
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Elevate: Opportunities to Sharpen Your Skills as a GTN Trainer
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The Main Reason That I Un-retired
When Paul Madson, the President of the Global Training Network (GTN), and I reconnected 2 ½ years ago, I shared with him the 30-year journey that the LORD led me and WordPartners on.
It was a remarkable journey that launched pastoral training movements in over 50 countries…fruit that continues to this day. The key turning point was this: not only equipping overseas pastors to faithfully study, teach and preach God’s Word, BUT ALSO have them train others in their region.
In other words, by God’s grace, we developed a ministry of multiplication. So, what’s the big deal? Why does Train-The-Trainers (T3) make so much sense?
Paul has asked me to help GTN move more fully into a Train-The-Trainers (T3) approach.
Craig leading the Train-The-Trainers Workshop
I’m on it! Last month, I led a two-day workshop on this topic. Click here for a one-minute testimony video of a couple who participated.
I’ve also launched the T3 Zoom Café. Every other month, GTN staff who are engaged with a training ministry of multiplication, will convene to discuss the challenges and opportunities that they’re facing. What can we learn from one another? How can we spur each other on?
This year, I’m also organizing several more training events for GTN staff. Please take a minute to read up by clicking on the link.
This is all in addition to helping launch a pastoral training movement in Sri Lanka along with my co-worker, Paul Adams. Oh yeah…I’m also co-pastoring Imago Dei Church here in Chicago. Whew…lot’s going on!
During the workshop, Craig asked participants to draw an excellent facilitator.
See if you can figure out what makes this facilitator so good!
I covet your prayers. I want to walk in the fullness and power of the Holy Spirit as I serve the 200 GTN staff members. They already are amazingly gifted and experienced. I’m here to help them Elevate their Expertise.
Thank you for your partnership and friendship. Louise and I are so grateful to the LORD for you!
With love,
Craig & Louise Parro
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Craig Weaver shares the important differences between oral and literate learners and ways in which we might adapt our teaching to better connect with oral preference learners.
Webinar Orality April 3 2025 Publish PPT
Webinar Orality April 3 2025 Publish PPT PDF
WebinarsLeave a commentLeave a commentCraig Weaver, Global Training Network’s resident expert in Orality, reviews key teaching methods that are oral learner-friendly and then demonstrates those methods by teaching from 1 Peter 5:1-7, a passage that speaks of the way shepherds are to care for the flock, following the example of the Chief Shepherd.
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WebinarsLeave a commentLeave a commentAs cross-cultural trainers, we learn pretty quickly that like Dorothy and Toto, “we’re not in Kansas anymore!” In this webinar, we explore the vulnerabilities that Westerners face as we seek to serve Majority World leaders. We learn that good intentions aren’t good enough!
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WebinarsLeave a commentLeave a commentI hate waiting. Long lines drive me crazy. Slow service can really test my patience.
So here I am, at the airport in Panama, waiting for a bus to take me to the conference center where the Global Proclamation Congress for Trainers of Pastors 2was about to begin. Waiting. For the past 6 months, I’d been very engaged with the Congress planning team. I’d also been asked to lead (with Doug Dunton) a 3-day workshop: Developing Pastors into Trainers. I was also a presenter at another workshop: Evaluation and Validation. So, I was heavily invested in this Congress.
But…here I am at the airport, waiting…waiting for the bus. Waiting for 2 long hours…
So, what do you do if you’re waiting for the bus? …the only thing you can do: strike up a conversation with another wait-er. “Hi, I’m Craig. Where did you fly from?” “Hi, I’m Neroshan Perera from Sri Lanka.” And thus began a God-ordained meeting…
Nero was the only representative from Sri Lanka at the Congress because a long, deep economic crisis prevented others from attending. The Lord miraculously provided for Nero. It turns out Nero is one of the key Christian leaders in the country – he’s a senior leader with the Assemblies of God (AG) denomination. He’s responsible for equipping and encouraging AG pastors and church planters.
Nero described to me the condition of the church in Sri Lanka. So very sad. Many pastors are not grounded in the Word and eagerly embrace anyone who waves money at them. In this way, the Prosperity Gospel had taken root in Sri Lanka, with devastating effects. Impoverished people are talked out of whatever little they own with the promise of future health and wealth. Instead, they fall deeper into poverty and despair. As a result, the name of Christ is dishonored among the Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus…over 90% of the population.
I shared with Nero how we train pastors to faithfully study, teach and preach God’s Word. He lit up…that is exactly what his country needs! By the end of the Congress, plans began to take shape for a “Taste & See” training in Sri Lanka the first week of October. Here’s what we’re telling those invited:
We are hoping that through this “Taste & See,” our Lord will raise up a small team of Sri Lankan trainers who have a burden and calling to equip pastors throughout the country. If it pleases the Lord to do so, our team from the Global Training Network (www.GTN.org) would commit to a multi-year training process to equip and coach these trainers. Could this become a way for pastors throughout Sri Lanka to develop both the passion and the skill to faithfully teach and preach God’s Word? What difference would that make???
Would you pray that the LORD…
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Lots going on. Very encouraged. And, so very grateful for your prayers and support!
With much love and thankfulness in the Lord,
Senior Staff
Global Training Network
Email: craigp@gtn.org
Global Training Network
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Peoria, AZ 85385
GTN Office Phone: 623.217.3867
In this webinar we discuss how we can help those we teach turn into trainers and multipliers.
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These evaluation tools and articles will help you keep learning and growing as a trainer.
They are designed to help you think through and implement a simple process to evaluate the effectiveness of your training ministry and discover what’s working well and what’s not working so well.
In this webinar, we discuss why evaluation is essential and yet the challenges of doing it well. We also begin to unpack some of the “how” and introduce a simple tool that can help you identify specific indicators of transformation.
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WebinarsLeave a commentLeave a commentThis webinar builds upon the first Evaluating Impact webinar. We discuss specific ways to evaluate our training, and the value of integrating evaluation into all aspects of the training rather than simply tacking it on at the end.
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