Reverb Network Newsletter (Fall 2019)

The Reverb Network Mission

Our mission at the Reverb Network is to provide leadership training, consulting and coaching to faith-based and non-profit organizations as well as to business groups and other associations for the purpose of creating a serving leadership culture in all spheres of society. Simply put, we develop serving leaders.

In this edition of our newsletter, we’re going to share with you an interview one of our board members conducted with a pastor in Nepal who has been hosting our 4-phase training program for the last two years. At the end of this year, we will be conducting Phase 3 with him and his team.

We’d also like to invite you to watch a short two and a half minute video that shares our vision at the Reverb Network. You’ll get a glimpse of a pastor’s “throne” and hear how this pastor pledged to change his style of leadership publicly to his congregation after hearing our presentation on serving leadership.

An Interview with Pastor M

Recently Reverb Network trainer and board member Harold Carpenter interviewed Pastor M from Nepal:

Harold: Pastor M, you have always shown the heart of a servant leader. What has captured your interest in the serving leadership material?

M: The main thing in the serving leadership material that really touched and captured my heart is that this leadership material teaches us to be servant leaders as Jesus himself was and to serve and lift others up. Many a leader today is seen as the boss; that leaders should be on the top and not below their followers. I discovered that this principle is the heart of this leadership training.

Harold: What steps have you taken to implement the principles you have learned in the training of your people?

M: Since learning that I am a servant, I am doing my best to serve the people of God and teaching them to do likewise.

Harold: Nepal has one of the fastest-growing Christian populations in the world. How do you see the serving leadership material helping Christian leaders and workers become better disciple makers?

M: Yes, Nepal has one of the fastest-growing Christian populations in the world. The Lord is saving his people and churches are having new converts. Unfortunately, not all are becoming disciples. I think that making disciples is not just a matter of teaching but it also needs to be lived out. What we teach we must model. These serving leadership materials challenge us as leaders to first “BE” and set an example. We learned that leadership begins with leading self. People learn more through seeing than only through hearing. So, I believe that these materials will surely help Christian leaders and workers become better disciple makers.

Harold: What do you see as the greatest need in discipling the new believers?

M: I think that Christian leaders have to focus on discipling new believers and have to spend time making them disciples. In the context of Nepal, we are just focusing on evangelism and conversion. When someone accepts the Lord we baptize them after a few days. After that, they join the Saturday/Sunday services and hear the word of God only once a week. That is all. So we need discipleship courses and leaders who emphasize discipleship.

Harold: There is some resistance to the spread of Christianity in Nepal. How can believers be strengthened to face this danger?

M: When someone is rooted in the word of God, then he or she can stand firm even in the time of persecution and opposition. The only way to strengthen believers in such situations is to encourage and teach them to be faithful even to death showing the example of disciples. It’s also good to look at the example of other Christians in other countries who are suffering for the sake of the gospel.

For just $20/month you can help develop serving leaders!

It costs approximately $1000 to develop a leader over four phases—that breaks down to around $20 per month for four years. From our experience, each leader who goes through the four phases will teach 120 new leaders. That’s a great investment! From there, we have no way of documenting the impact, but as you can imagine, that number could run into the thousands. Change the world by going deep with the few!

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